Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-09-26
Buyer: Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Country: FI
Region: FI1B1
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 33650000 | 33651600
Estimated value: 2485056 EUR
Award criteria: price

Technical requirements: An open procedure is applied. The procurement will take place in compliance with the Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement and the Finnish Act on Public Procurement and Concession Contracts (1397/2016). The estimated value of the procurement will exceed the EU threshold value.

In case none of the tenders received meets the requirements of the Call for Tender as intended by the Customer, or if conditions change during the procurement process so that the Customer will be unable to make use of the results of the competitive bidding, the Customer may interrupt the procurement procedure. No compensation will be paid to the tenderers for preparing a tender, presenting it or other participations in the procedure.

The Call for Tender documents are available in English.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (later referred to as ”STM”) and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (later referred to as "THL" or “Customer” ) request your tender for Meningococcal group A, C, W-135 and Y conjugate vaccine, required for the vaccinations in the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard and for the risk group vaccinations in the National Vaccination Programme in Finland.

The contract period is two years 2026 - 2027. The procurement contains two one-year contract period renewals (1 + 1) to extend the contract for the periods 2028 and 2029.

Estimated quantity for the contract period including contract period renewals is 112,000 doses. Customer reserves the right to increase or decrease the ordered numbers of doses by up to 20%.

The contract will be awarded to one Supplier based on a comparison of tenders. Tender that is economically the most advantageous will win the competition. The most economically advantageous Tender shall be a Tender with lowest price. 

Please note that all times given in the Call for Tender refer to local time in Finland.

Call for Tenders, annexes:

Annex 1 Contract
Annex 2 JYSE 2014 SUPPLIES (updated version of April 2022)
Annex 3 Delivery schedule
Annex 4 Subcontractors
Annex 5 Description of the Handi Service
The procurement contract can be signed no earlier than 14 days from the time the tenderer has been informed, or is considered to have been informed, of the procurement decision and its grounds (=stand-still period).
After the Contract period, THL shall reserve a right for two (2) one (1)-year Contract period renewals (1+1). THL should extend the Contract period with one (1) or two (2) contract period renewals at a time. If THL decides to exercise the Contract period renewal, the Supplier shall commit to the following extensions of the Contract: The Contract consists of contract period renewals for the years 2028 and 2029. Estimated quantity for one contract period renewal is 28,000 doses (+/- 20%).


Winner: GlaxoSmithKline Oy
Award value: 2485056
Number of bids: 2