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Acquisition of a public transport planning system

Joukkoliikenteen suunnittelujärjestelmän hankinta — original title

FIFinland · Turku

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 5 November at 11:00 — 4 days left.
  2. You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Offer and evidence in: Finnish.
  4. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The procurement is described in this call for tenders and its annexes. The procurement is divided into three areas: 1. Turku regional public transport planning system 2. Turku Urban Transport Ltd's planning system (option) 3. Service contract management (option) One (1) provider will be selected as the supplier. The same provider will also be selected as a supplier for possible options.

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published15 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period1 Jan 2027 → 31 Dec 2030
3 lotsReserved for SMEs

Type of service

72 · IT services48 · Software & IT systems
CPV 72000000 · 48000000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (60 awards, most recently August 2026) — the next award is due around November 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to Netum Oy.n = 60
  • 34% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (846 awards since 2017, spread over 451 companies). That is well below the sector norm (49%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 846 awards since 2017
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (515 procedures with a bid count); 13% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 515
  • The award came in at a median 79% of the estimated value (40 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 82%.n = 40
  • 4% of awards went to companies from abroad (846 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 846

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 31/10/2026.

Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Finnish.

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex 1
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration
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Administrative conditions
The full notice, official wording

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Arkea Oy232017–2024
Parmaco Oy132024–2026
Lekolar-Printel Oy112019–2026
Schauman Arkkitehdit Oy92020–2022
V-S Bussipalvelut Oy72023–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

10
2020
19
2021
12
2022
22
2023
26
2024
16
2025
34
2026
139 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Thursday 5 November at 11:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 24 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 21 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,452 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Finland · IT services, 51 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 4,856 recorded awards) — mostly from France, United States, Germany.

Submission language: Finnish.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.
This procedure is published on 2 portals
Bids are submitted on Hilma — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeHilmaSubmission portal
Put together the evidence — in Finnish
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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