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The value of public procurement exceeds EUR 40 billion annually
How much funding do different sectors and organisations allocate to purchases?
In the first phase, the service provides public procurement data based on procurement notices and accounting data compiled by the State Treasury. Data based on purchase invoices from central government, municipalities, wellbeing services counties, Kela and Senate Properties will be published later.
Nearly half of all contract notices concern procurements exceeding the EU thresholds.
Notices concerning procurements that exceed the applicable EU thresholds must also be published in Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), which makes it easier for international tenderers to participate in the process. The chart shows the share of contract notices concerning procurements above and below the EU thresholds.
Is there genuine competitive tendering in public procurement?
When do contracting entities purchase goods and services without competitive tendering?
Competition arises when more than one tenderer can submit a tender for the same contract. If only one tender is received or the direct award procedure is used, the market may not function properly. The figures should be interpreted as signals: they alone do not indicate that there are irregularities in the procurement process.
Does the public sector act responsibly when making purchases?
You can see at a glance how much emphasis is given to sustainability, innovations and SME participation in public procurement. The information is based on Hilma notices, in which the contracting entities indicate whether ecological or social sustainability, innovations or opportunities for SMEs to participate have been taken into account in the procurement.
Public procurement in a nutshell
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Key terms
- The Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) is the EU’s common classification system for describing the subject matter of public contracts in a standardised manner. For reporting purposes, this service groups the CPV codes into 15 main categories.
- DPS (Dynamic Purchasing System) is a fully electronic procurement procedure used in public procurement, in which new suppliers meeting the suitability requirements can join the system throughout its period of validity. The system is particularly suitable for commonly used purchases.
- Procurement covers all purchases made to provide public services: ports, railways, hospitals, daycare centres, schools, telecommunications equipment, snow clearing services and much more.
- Contract notice is an official procurement notice that describes the subject matter of the procurement, the procurement procedure used and the deadline for submitting tenders. In Finland, contract notices are normally published in the Hilma service.
- Contracting entity is a public organisation that purchases products and services from suppliers.
- Hilma is Finland’s public procurement notice service, in which the contract notices, contract award notices and other notices concerning the procurement procedures are published.
- Contract award notice provides information on the outcome of the procurement procedure, including the name of the supplier with whom the contract has been concluded.
- In-house entity is a separate actor controlled by the contracting entity, from which goods or services can be purchased without competitive tendering if the requirements specified in the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts are met.
- Direct award is a procurement procedure in which a contract is awarded without competitive tendering on grounds specified in the Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts.
- TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU’s online public procurement portal where contract notices and contract award notices for procurements covered by EU rules are published.
- Suppliers are companies, associations, sole traders or other organisations that supply products and services to central government, municipalities and wellbeing services counties.
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National procurement and procurement above the EU thresholds
In national procurement, the contracting entity puts the purchase out to tender in Hilma using the national procedure. For procurements above the EU thresholds, the contracting entity complies with the procedures specified in the EU procurement directives, publishes the notice in both Hilma and TED, uses EU forms and applies longer deadlines.
Matter National procurement Procurement above the EU thresholds Notice channel Hilma Hilma + TED (EU) Procedures Flexible, national Strictly regulated EU procedures Tendering deadlines Shorter, more flexible Longer, specified by directives Documents National documents EU forms (such as ESPD) Publication scope Finland EU -
Information published on the website
The service publishes reports on public procurement and tendering procedures based on information entered by contracting entities in Hilma. In the future, information based on purchase invoices will also be published according to a separate schedule.