Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe University of Turku is procuring an agency service for non-Finnish literature covering the ordering and delivery of books to delivery addresses specified by the customer. The supplier will provide an electronic ordering system through which the customer places orders, and the service includes delivering the ordered products to the addresses informed by the customer. Mandatory requirements for the acquisition were listed in the tendering documents. The scope covers agency services for printed foreign-language literature rather than direct purchase of stock.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Price: 54 points; 2.1 The database of the electronic ordering system includes information on out-of-print books.: 4 points; 2.2 Information on the availability of the products is updated frequently in tenderer's ordering system: 4 points; 2.3 The tenderer's ordering system can use the Real-time ordering feature in the library's Alma library system. Please find a description of the feature here: https://developers. exlibrisgroup.com/blo: 6 points; 2.4 Express delivery option together with a possibility to check orders as urgent: 8 points; 2.5 The customer can see if there is an e-format of the product before placing an order: 2 points; 2.6 The customer can purchase used books via service provider: 2 points; 2.7 The customer can save unfinished orders for later updating and edit the order before submitting the final order to the supplier: 4 points; 2.8 The customer can track order cancellations from the present and previous fiscal year: 4 points; 2.9 The supplier's ordering system contains duplicate control: 2 points; 2.10 Service for out-of-print items (“tracking service): 4 points; 2.11 Information of the product in the database includes information about whether the edition provided is the latest edition.: 4 points; 2.12 Search results in the catalogue can be arranged by publication date, the newest first: 2 points
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Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 10 awards for Printed matter in Finland.
- Median award
- €298,500
- Middle half of past awards
- €193,212 to €1.6M
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileUniversity of Turku
- notices in the register
- 17
- awards
- 10
- awarded in total
- €5.3M
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Printed matter - Finland
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storia Oy | 3 | €2.8M | Dec 2025 |
| Pollard Banknote; Scientific Games International Limited | 1 | €7.2M | May 2026 |
| Grano Oy; Punamusta Oy; Lähettämö Oy; Fair Partner Oy | 1 | €2.0M | Jan 2026 |
| Innoflame Oy | 1 | €350,000 | Oct 2025 |
| RCK Finland Oy | 1 | €350,000 | Oct 2025 |
Based on 15 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.
Market context
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.
- open now in Printed matter
- 609
- median open notice
- €110,500
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