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School Transfers Route 4 (Central Line) and Route 5 (Kalettoman Line), City of Keuruu

Koulukuljetukset Reitti 4 (Keskustan linja) ja Reitti 5 (Kalettoman linja), Keuruun kaupunki — original title

FIFinland · Kuopio

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 23 November at 10:00 — 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

The target of the procurement is school transport Route 4 (Keskustanlinja) and Route 5 (Kalettomanlinja to the city of ) Keuruu. The contract period is fixed-term from 7.1.2027 to 31.7.2030. The contract provides for the possibility to extend the contract by 1+1 years without further invitation to tender. 1st option year 1.8.2030 - 31.7.2031 2nd option year 1.8.2031 - 31.7.2032 The subscriber may activate the option years either one time or one year at a time. · School transport Route 4 (Central route) The details of the route can be found in the appendices to the invitation to tender. · School transport Route 5 (Sealless line) The details of the route can be found in the appendices to the invitation to tender.

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published26 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period7 Jan 2027 → 31 Jul 2030
2 lotsReserved for SMEs

Type of service

60 · Transport services
CPV 60140000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every month (429 awards, most recently October 2026) — the next award is due around November 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to Kelan Pojat Ay.n = 429
  • 39% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (2,757 awards since 2019, spread over 1,667 companies). That is well below the sector norm (62%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 2,757 awards since 2019
  • The median procedure drew 7 bids (2,534 procedures with a bid count); 8% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 2,534
  • The award came in at a median 80% of the estimated value (56 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 91%.n = 56
  • 4% of awards went to companies from abroad (2,757 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 2,757

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 30/10/2026.

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

Selection criteria — 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
GE Healthcare Finland Oy · HELSINGFORS262020–2026
B. Braun Medical Oy232019–2026
Berner Oy · HELSINGFORS192022–2026
Mediplast Fenno Oy182020–2026
Mediq Suomi Oy172024–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

37
2020
33
2021
34
2022
45
2023
61
2024
126
2025
64
2026
400 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 — Monday 23 November at 10:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually 8 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 364 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 28 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,452 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 · Transport services, 4 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 7,544 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
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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
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