Public procurement notices data contain the announcements published in HILMA, an electronic forum for publishing contract notices. Public contracts are supply, service or public works contracts into which the state, municipalities or federations of municipalities, state enterprises and other contracting authorities, as defined in the procurement legislation, enter with external suppliers. Contracting authorities are required to publish the contracts exceeding a threshold value in the HILMA database. They also publish notices on upcoming and ongoing tendering procedures and as well on the results of procedures. FSD collections contain data from 2007.
The data contain announcements of public contracts published in the HILMA electronic notification system in 2025. Finnish procurement laws and EU public procurement directives require that contracting authorities advertise their public tenders for all procurements exceeding the threshold value.
Public procurement notices contain information on the number and type of notice, date of publication, type of the contract, type of procurement procedure, type of the contracting authority, award criteria, common procurement vocabulary (CPV) code, and the value of the contract (if applicable). The questionnaire also includes statistical questions related to the monitoring of the implementation of the national public procurement strategy. These questions cover innovation, environmental and social sustainability, consideration of small and medium-sized enterprises and the involvement of service users in the procurement process.
The data also contain information on the suppliers of products and services and the variable regional classification (NUTS).
No sampling. The data contain notices published in the HILMA database in 2024. The archived data contain 21,367 notices.