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Hand rinses (NEW PUBLICATION)
Käsihuuhteet (UUDELLEEN JULKAISU) — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 23 November at 12:00 — 22 days left.
- You submit on Hilma — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: Finnish.
- Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
What the buyer is looking for
This is a re-publication of the invitation to tender, in which corrections have been made to the criteria of the subject of the contract. In addition, the deadlines for the invitation to tender have been updated. HUS Group invites tenders for ethanol-based hand sanitisers. The products are described in more detail below in the invitation to tender and in Annex 1 to the invitation to tender. This is an overall contract, i.e. the contract is not divided into lots. Three contractors will be selected. An electronic auction will be used to carry out the procurement. In addition, products belonging to the product groups covered by the contract which are not identified in the product annex may be procured during the contract period in accordance with the estimated value of the contract (see draft contract). The contract period is 2 years, after which the contracts will continue for an…
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… indefinite period. Prices are fixed for the actual contract period (2 years). This is a joint procurement by several contracting entities, which takes the form of a procurement ring. The products requested in this invitation to tender will be used by: HUS Group (HUS), South Karelia wellbeing services county, Kymenlaakso wellbeing services county, Päijät-Häme wellbeing services county, City of Helsinki, Eastern Uusimaa wellbeing services county, Central Uusimaa wellbeing services county, Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county, Western Uusimaa wellbeing services county and the Finnish Defence Forces. See Annex 2 to the invitation to tender for details of the draft contract. At the time of publication of the invitation to tender, HUS estimated, on the basis of the purchase history, that the total procurement value calculated for 4 years would be approximately EUR 2.1-2.4 million VAT at 0%, including all contracting entities involved in the procurement. This is an estimate and the contracting entity does not commit to the stated amounts in euro and the actual consumption indicated in the invitation to tender. Final order quantities may be higher or lower than indicated. Most of the products are so-called flow-through products, which are ordered from HUS's order system, delivered to HUS's central warehouse in Vantaa, Finland, and distributed through HUS' central warehouse to the offices of HUS, Kymenlaakso, the City of Helsinki, Central Uusimaa, Vantaa and Kerava, East Uusimaa and the Finnish Defence Forces. The wellbeing services counties of Päijät-Häme, South Karelia and Western Uusimaa place their orders from their own order system, and the products are also delivered to their delivery addresses. HUS estimates that approximately 23% of the total value of the procurement indicated above is ordered by the wellbeing services counties of Päijät-Häme, South Karelia or Western Uusimaa (unbinding estimate). The subject matter and requirements of the contract are described in detail in the invitation to tender and its annexes. Before the publication of the call for tenders, the contracting entity has carried out a market prospection of the procurement by publishing a request for information on 24 April 2026 (Notification Hilma number 2026-047245).
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 11 months (1662 awards, most recently October 2026) — the next award is due around October 2027 by that rhythm. The last award went to Stiegelmeyer Oy.n = 1,662
- The award came in at a median 33% of the estimated value (80 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 82%.n = 80
- 64% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (2,285 awards since 2018, spread over 731 companies). 36% went to new names.n = 2,285 awards since 2018
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (1,515 procedures with a bid count); 22% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 1,515
- Across 11 procedures with structured selection criteria, this buyer most often required: Trade register enrolment (8 of 11), References: supplies (7 of 11), Professional register enrolment (3 of 11).n = 11
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.
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
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.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Respecta Oy | 96 | 2023–2026 |
| Mediq Suomi Oy | 56 | 2019–2026 |
| OneMed Oy | 53 | 2018–2026 |
| Steripolar Oy · ESBO | 51 | 2018–2026 |
| Medtronic Finland Oy · VANDA | 34 | 2023–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 4 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 1,103 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 33 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 · Medical equipment & pharma, 264 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 7,356 recorded awards) — mostly from Sweden, Germany, Denmark.
Submission language: Finnish.
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