Public procurement. Current state of affairs.
Terveysteknologia ry - Healthtech Finland
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Post 6 in a series of posts from the project on testbeds, public procurement, and regulations commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
Last year, we at Upgraded were commissioned by the?Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment?to study the experiences of Finnish health startups in three areas: testbeds, public procurement, and regulations. We jumped at the opportunity to investigate these topics separately and in connection with each other. At this point, when asked what areas they were finding difficult to tackle, our members would name one or all of them.
The report turned out to be extensive; in this post series, we would like to break it down by topic. This time, we will share the broader context of public procurement in Finland.
Public procurement is a process that aims to procure products and services for public organizations. In Finland, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment drafts legislation related to Acts on public contracts and maintains HILMA, an online platform for advertising public tenders and calls (more information here).
According to a Study on administrative capacity in the EU published in 2016, public procurement spending in Finland tends to be one of the largest in the Nordic countries in the EU due to the sheer size of the public sector and its role in the country’s economy. Approximately 540 contracting authorities place their calls on HILMA.
Finland also has a recently developed specific mechanism for procuring never-before-seen solutions: innovative public procurement. It involves “the procurement of new or significantly improved goods or services that can help to enhance the productivity, quality, sustainability and/or effectiveness of public services”. To facilitate this type of procurement and enhance the Finnish public sector’s role as a leader in innovations, a Government Programme for innovative public procurement was launched in 2018. KEINO, the Competence Center for Sustainable and Innovative public procurement, is a part of this program, supporting public procurement experts in purchasing “a new or clearly improved product or service that is not yet being used widely”.
You can read the report in full?here.
Shoot an email to our Head of Research,?Alena, if you have any questions about the study:?[email protected]
The series Table of content:
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Post 7. Public procurement. Survey results.
Post 8. Public procurement. Interview analysis. Expert perspective.
Post 9. Public procurement. Interview analysis. Startup perspective.
Post 10. Public procurement. Roundtable summary.
Post 11. Standards and regulations. Current state of Affairs.
Post 12. Standards and regulations. Survey results.
Post 13. Standards and regulations. Interview analysis. Expert perspective.
Post 14. Standards and regulations. Interview analysis. Startup perspective.
Post 15. Standards and regulations. Roundtable summary.