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Lifting body vehicle with rail wheels

Nostokoriajoneuvo kiskopyörillä — original title

FIFinland · Helsinki PL 100

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 12 November at 14:00 — 11 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.
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What the buyer is looking for

Helsinki Metropolitan Area Urban Transport Ltd ("City Transport" or "Subscriber") acquires a lifting body vehicle for the inspection and maintenance of the overhead contact lines of the tramway track in the Helsinki metropolitan area in order to ensure the operating conditions of tramway traffic. The bodywork vehicle (rail wheels) to be procured must meet the technical and operational requirements described in the invitation to tender and its annexes. A more detailed description of the subject of the procurement and the related requirements can be found in the following annexes: - Annex 1 Draft contract for the purchase of a lifting body vehicle - Annex 2 Description of the procurement_Traffic body vehicle on rail wheels - Annex 2a Requirements - Annex 2b Technical annexes (zip) - Annex 3 Replacement and spare parts - Annex 4 Reception and approval process - Annex 5 Training - Annex 6a…

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… JYSE goods 2025 - Annex 6b JYSE services 2025 A single supplier will be selected for the procurement, who will be responsible for the overall delivery of the vehicle, warranty period obligations and maintenance, maintenance and spare parts services in accordance with the invitation to tender and its annexes.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published21 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Place of performanceHelsinki
Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment
CPV 34114000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 3 months (40 awards, most recently May 2026) — by that rhythm the next award was due around August 2026. The last award went to Ultimate Europe Transportation Equipment GmbH.n = 40
  • 22% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (201 awards since 2022, spread over 112 companies). That is well below the sector norm (51%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 201 awards since 2022
  • 69% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (16 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 19%.n = 16
  • The award came in at a median 64% of the estimated value (12 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 98%.n = 12
  • The median procedure drew 4 bids (89 procedures with a bid count); 18% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 89

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement
In this buyer's last 16 comparable contracts (same sector), usually only a single offer came in — a solid bid has real chances.
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Selection criteria — via the ESPD

The buyer states in the notice that eligibility is proven through the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD); the concrete requirements are in the tender documents. 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
Transtech Oy62024–2026
Kreate Oy42026
WSP Finland Oy42025–2026
A-Insinöörit Suunnittelu Oy42025–2026
Rejlers Finland Oy · MIKKELI42025–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

6
2022
13
2023
18
2024
38
2025
27
2026
102 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 12 November at 14:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, there was usually a single bid in the end. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 16 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 23 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Finland · Transport equipment, 44 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,978 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Denmark.

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
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Bids are submitted on Hilma — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
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Put together the evidence — in Finnish
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
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