Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-09-18
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: 798288 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 (hereinafter ”STM”) and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (hereinafter "THL" or “Customer” ) request your tender for Hepatitis A and B combination Vaccine belonging to the National Vaccination Programme in Finland.

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 reference price for the competition. The reference price will be calculated by adding the tendered prices for adult and children/adolescent doses together. The tenderer must offer a price for both adult and children´s vaccines.

The contract period is two years 2025 - 2027. The procurement contains two one-year contract period renewals (1+1) to extend the contract for the periods 2027-2028 and 2028-2029.

Estimated quantity for the contract period including contract period renewals is 12 000 doses for adults  and 1000 doses for children/adolescents. Customer reserves the right to increase or decrease the ordered numbers of doses by up to 20%.


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 reference price for the tender will be counted with the following formula (price per dose for the adult vaccine *  6000 doses) + (price per dose for the pediatric vaccine x 500 doses)=Reference price.
In a procurement exceeding the EU threshold value, the contract may be concluded no earlier than 14 days after the tenderer has received or is deemed to have received the decision and the appeal notice (waiting period).
The procurement contains two one-year contract period renewals (1+1) to extend the contract. Estimated quantity for one contract period renewal is 3000 doses (+/-20 %) for adults and 250 doses (+/- 20 %) for children/adolescents. The customer can extend the contract period with one or two Contract period renewals at a time.


Winner: GlaxoSmithKline Oy
Award value: 798228
Number of bids: 1