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Acquisition of the Kankaanpää city school transport route Kankaanpää - Karvia
Hankinta Kankaanpään kaupungin koulukuljetukselle reitille Kankaanpää - Karvia — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 29 November at 21:00 — 29 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
Call for tenders from the City of Kankaanpää (the client) for school transport services for pre-primary and basic education students on the route Centre - Karvia for the academic years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 for the period 4.1.2027 - 30.6.2028 and option periods for the academic years 2028-2029 and 2029-2030. The decision to activate options is made by the subscriber. The value of the acquisition, including options, is approximately EUR 210,000. School transport takes place during the school's operating hours, approximately 190 days a year. The client announces the school's operating hours annually in advance. The transport routes and volumes are preliminary and presented as currently known. The routes and deliverables of school transport will be checked in early August when the final data on pupils and transport times are available. Checks are carried out in cooperation with the client…
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… and selected contractors. On the basis of the information provided, the contractor draws up the timetables for the carriage of the route. The customer accepts the final route plans and schedules. The Contracting Entity reserves the right to change the routes due to the periodic system, change of semester, change of tuition or student numbers, etc. Before the decision on the changes is made, negotiations shall be held with the service provider. Daily changes due to the schedules etc. are taken into account by the service provider in the transport of each destination. The main responsibility for the functionality and punctuality of the route and timetables lies with the service provider.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 15% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (56 awards since 2018, spread over 42 companies). That is well below the sector norm (62%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 56 awards since 2018
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (26 procedures with a bid count); 4% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 26
- 2% of awards went to companies from abroad (56 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 56
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SHP-Palvelut Oy | 3 | 2022–2024 |
| Netorek Oy | 2 | 2018–2023 |
| Kantonen Minerals Oy (25649033)//Kuljetus-Mäkivaara Oy (0807493-6)//Kantonen Minerals Oy (25649033)//Kuljetus-Mäkivaara Oy | 2 | 2021–2025 |
| Pallas Rakennus Länsi-Suomi Oy | 2 | 2021 |
| Vaasan Sähkö Myynti Oy | 2 | 2025 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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 32 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 1,471 procedures). A normal window for this market.
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.
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