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Parcel, freight and customs clearance services

Paketti- ja rahtikuljetuspalvelut sekä tullauspalvelut — original title

FIFinland · Helsinki

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 30 November at 12:00 — 29 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 object of the procurement is YLE's framework agreement (hereinafter referred to as "Yle") for parcel and freight transport services and customs clearance services. The procurement will establish a framework agreement for which one (1) supplier will be selected. The procurement includes: domestic shipments, foreign shipments, event logistics and customs clearance services Contract period: two years, beginning on 1 January 2027 Option period: two years The subject of the procurement is described in more detail in the invitation to tender and its annexes.

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published28 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period1 Jan 2027 → 31 Dec 2028
Framework agreementReserved for SMEs

Type of service

60 · Transport services
CPV 60161000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The award came in at a median 172% of the estimated value (10 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too low here. Sector: 91%.n = 10
  • 38% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (474 awards since 2017, spread over 216 companies). That is well below the sector norm (62%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 474 awards since 2017
  • 44% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (40 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 93%.n = 40
  • The median procedure drew 4 bids (412 procedures with a bid count); 11% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 412
  • 10% of the bids received came from other countries (40 procedures with a bid mix) — all bidders, not just the winners. Sector: 0%.n = 40

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.

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
Solita Oy (1060155-5)//Reaktor Innovations Oy182018–2025
TV Tools Oy182019–2024
Broadcast Solutions Nordic Oy122019–2026
Solita Oy72019–2026
Audico Systems Oy62024–2026
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
2021
1
2022
4
2023
1
2024
7
2026
14 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

Websitewww.yle.fi
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Deadline — Monday 30 November at 12:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 5 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 6,891 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 1,452 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
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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