Summary information

Study title

Public Procurement Notices 2012

Creator

Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Labour and Trade Department

Study number / PID

FSD2816 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2816 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2816 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Public Procurement Notices

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...

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Abstract

The data contain announcements of public contracts published in the HILMA electronic notification system in 2012. Finnish procurements laws 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 dataset also contains information on whether an electronic auction has been used.

Methodology

Data collection period

2012

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Time series

Analysis unit

Other analysis unit

Universe

Public procurement notices from the year 2012

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Summary

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2013

Terms of data access

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

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