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Mestar Kuopio Oy - Acquisition of insurance cover

Mestar Kuopio Oy - Vakuutusturvan hankinta — original title

FIFinland · Kuopio

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 23 November at 14:00 — 22 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

Mestar Kuopio Oy (later also the Client) asks for offers of insurance cover and related services. First insurance period: 1.1.2027 – 31.12.2027 (insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases from 1.4.2027). After this period, the insurance period is the calendar year. During the insurance periods, the contracting entity has the right to reopen the competition and transfer the insurances to the successful tenderer. The insurances are valid for an indefinite period of one year at a time.

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published21 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

66 · Financial & insurance services
CPV 66515000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The median procedure drew 30 bids (143 procedures with a bid count); 3% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 143
  • 32% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (146 awards since 2021, spread over 90 companies). 68% went to new names.n = 146 awards since 2021
  • Not one of the 146 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 2%.n = 146
  • 100% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (62 procedures with a bid mix).n = 62

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
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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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
Maansiirto Luostarinen Ky42024–2026
Kuljetus Taattola Oy42024–2026
Maanrakennus Martikainen Oy42024–2026
Kone-Turunen Oy42024–2026
Koneurakointi M.Vartiainen Oy42024–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

1
2022
1
2026
2 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

Websitemestar.fi/
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Deadline — Monday 23 November at 14:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 677 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 34 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

Foreign bidders

In Finland · Financial & insurance services, 8 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 742 recorded awards).

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.
To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →
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