Procurements

MerikarviaThe municipality, like all municipalities, joint municipal authorities and municipal procurement units, must comply with the Public Procurement Act in its procurements.

Small procurements refer to procurements of goods and services below the national threshold. These are not covered by the Procurement Act, but the procurements must comply with the principles of fairness and must also be competitively priced.

The procurement threshold refers to the highest possible estimated value of an individual procurement. The estimated value also determines whether the procurement is subject to a national procedure or an EU procedure. Changes to the Procurement Act usually also affect the thresholds. EU thresholds change every two years. The current thresholds can be found at from the hankinnat.fi website.

Procurements exceeding the national threshold can be found From the HILMA channel.

Requests for quotations for small purchases can be found in the Tender Service

Starting August 23.8.2022, XNUMX, procurement units will publish small procurements in the new Tender Service - you can find out there from this link.

Joint procurement

MerikarviaThe municipality has a cooperation agreement with the City of Pori regarding procurement. In accordance with it, the Pori City Procurement Services unit puts out tenders for procurements in accordance with the joint procurement plan, and each contracting party involved in the cooperation decides separately for each tender on whether to participate in the joint procurement. For the purposes of joint procurement, the municipality is a shareholder of KuntaPro Oy and KL-Kuntahankinnat Oy.

Research procurement service

The Tutkihankintoja.fi service provides citizens and companies with information on state and municipal procurement. Citizens receive information on what the state and municipalities procure and what public funds are used for. For companies, the service provides information on the market. You can explore procurements by organization or category, for example.

With Handata's search engine, you can easily and quickly find information about purchases by public sector organizations as well as competitive procurements.

Small purchases

If the commodity to be purchased does not fall within the scope of the joint procurement in accordance with the joint procurement agreements mentioned above, the purchase will be carried out as a so-called separate procurement. Separate procurements are put out to tender by the relevant institution.

Small purchases are subject to MerikarviaThe following procurement procedures are in place in the municipality:

1. As a rule, the purchase of goods or services worth less than 10 euros can be made through direct procurement without actual competitive bidding, but it is recommended to check the price using a small procurement system from about three potential suppliers;
2. As a rule, procurements over 10 euros but less than 000 euros must be put out to tender and announced in the small procurement system. A written procurement decision is made on the tender;
3. Procurements over 30 euros but less than 000 euros must be put out to tender and announced in the small procurement system and/or, at your discretion, also in HILMA. A written procurement decision will be made on the tender.