How to find public tenders in Finland (Hilma guide)

Of the seven procurement systems we integrate, Finland's is the one we'd hold up as the reference: one national portal, a clear legal publication duty starting at €60,000 for supplies and services, and a free public search interface that simply works. Around 25–30 new tenders flow through it every day.

Where Finnish tenders are published

Hilma (hankintailmoitukset.fi) is Finland's official procurement notification service. The Finnish Procurement Act (1397/2016) applies from the national threshold of €60,000 for supplies and services — from that value up, notices must be published on Hilma, per the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Below €60,000, purchases count as small procurements outside the act — those you won't find on any portal.

Above the EU thresholds, Finnish notices go to TED as well. The band between €60,000 and the EU lines is the Finland-only layer: real volume, visible on Hilma, absent from TED.

Using Hilma directly

Hilma's search is public, no account needed, with sensible filters. Notices come in Finnish and Swedish (both official languages), occasionally in English for internationally-aimed procedures. An engineering note from our side: Hilma is eForms-native and exposes a genuinely well-built free search interface — of the seven systems we run, it's the one that has caused us the least operational trouble. Finland's digital-government reputation is earned here.

What BidScout covers

We query Hilma twice a day, machine-translate Finnish and Swedish titles to English, and match everything against your company profile. Finnish coverage is part of BidScout Pro (€49/month); the free plan's TED layer carries the above-EU-threshold slice.

The practical route

Finland is a good market to work systematically: the public sector is digitized, procedures are clean, and competition from abroad is lower than in the big central European markets. If you read Finnish or Swedish, a Hilma saved search takes you far. If you don't, that's the actual barrier — not access, language — and machine translation (ours or your own) is what removes it. Either way, for supplies and services from €60,000 up, if a Finnish public buyer wants it, it's on Hilma — works and certain social-care services carry higher national lines.