Finland Procurement Scraper — Hilma Tender Notices

Search and extract Finnish public procurement notices from hankintailmoitukset.fi (Hilma), Finland's official government tender portal operated by Hansel Oy. Filter by keyword, notice type, procurement category, region, or estimated value. Returns notice title, buyer organisation, deadline, estimated value, CPV codes, NUTS region, and award winners. No API key, no cookies, no login required.

How to scrape Hankintailmoitukset.fi data

This actor reads notice data directly from Hilma's own public search API — the same data source that powers the site's search page, requested as structured JSON rather than scraped from rendered HTML. Every Finnish public body (municipalities, government agencies, hospital districts, state-owned companies) is required to publish procurement notices above the relevant threshold here, making it the single most complete source for Finnish public-sector contract opportunities.

Enter your search keywords, pick optional filters, and run. Because Hilma's search API returns full notice detail — title, description, buyer, CPV codes, value, dates, and (for awarded contracts) the winning suppliers — in the same response used to list results, there's no separate detail-page fetch per notice. That makes runs faster and less prone to breaking than portals that require opening each result individually.

Who benefits from this data?

• Government contractors — Monitor new procurement opportunities daily across Finnish municipalities, government agencies, and state-owned companies. Never miss a relevant tender in your industry.
• Market researchers — Analyze Finnish public spending patterns, procurement volumes, and contract award trends across sectors and regions.
• B2B sales teams — Identify which Finnish public bodies are buying what you sell. Build targeted prospect lists across the Finnish public procurement market.
• Consultancies and advisory firms — Track procurement activity by category, region, or buyer to advise clients on Finnish market entry and bidding strategy.
• Compliance and legal teams — Monitor competitor contract awards via the winnerOrganisations field.
• EU/EEA market intelligence — Larger Finnish tenders above EU thresholds are eForms-standard notices, cross-referenced with TED; this actor flags isEuProcurement on every record.

Search by keyword

Enter any keyword to find relevant notices. The search matches against the notice title, description, and organisation name (Finnish, Swedish, and English fields). Examples: "rakentaminen" (construction), "ohjelmisto" (software), "terveyspalvelut" (health services), "siivous" (cleaning), "IT-palvelut" (IT services).

Filter by notice type

• Contract Notices — open calls for tenders, bids currently being accepted
• Contract Award Notices — completed procurements, includes winnerOrganisations — competitor intelligence
• Prior Information Notices — early market-sounding notices before a formal tender opens
• Procurement Plans, Contract Modifications, National Notices — additional notice categories

Filter by procurement type and region

• Procurement type: Services, Supplies, or Works
• Region: Finnish NUTS region code prefix, e.g. FI1B (Helsinki-Uusimaa), FI1C (Southwest Finland), FI19 (Western Finland), FI1D (Northern & Eastern Finland)

Filter by date and value

Use publishedAfter/publishedBefore to monitor new publications within a window, and estimatedValueMin/estimatedValueMax to target contracts of a certain size. Set openOnly to true to exclude cancelled notices and notices whose submission deadline has already passed.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	rakentaminen	Keyword matched against title, description, and organisation name
mainType	Enum	all	all, ContractNotices, ContractAwardNotices, PriorInformationNotices, ProcurementPlan, Modification, NationalNotices
procurementTypeCode	Enum	all	all, services, supplies, works
region	String	—	Finnish NUTS region code prefix (e.g. FI1B)
openOnly	Boolean	false	Only notices not cancelled, with a future submission deadline
publishedAfter / publishedBefore	String	—	Publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD
estimatedValueMin / estimatedValueMax	Integer	—	Estimated contract value range, EUR
maxResults	Integer	50	Maximum number of notices to return (1–5,000)
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify proxy	Apify proxy settings

What data does this scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
itemTitle	String	Notice title
referenceNumber	String	Hilma notice ID (e.g. EF-55935)
organization	String	Buyer organisation name
status	String	Open, Closed, Awarded, Cancelled, Prior information, Planned, Modified
publicationDate	String	Date the notice was published
deadline	String	Bid submission deadline (empty for award notices — no deadline applies)
estimatedValue	String	Estimated contract value, when disclosed
currency	String	Almost always EUR
category	String	Procurement type (services, supplies, works)
cpvCodes	Array	CPV classification codes with descriptions
region	String	Finnish NUTS region code(s)
itemDescription	String	Full notice description
contactInfo	Object	Buyer organisation name, address, and Finnish business ID
url	String	Direct link to the notice on hankintailmoitukset.fi
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of when the data was scraped
noticeType	String	Human-readable notice type label
isEuProcurement	Boolean	Whether the notice is above the EU procurement threshold
winnerOrganisations	String	Winning supplier(s), populated on award notices
procurementDocumentsUrl	String	Link to the buyer's tendering platform for full documents

Example output

{
    "itemTitle": "Aurinkotien, Ratakadun ja Tuulensuunkadun kadunrakennus",
    "referenceNumber": "EF-55935",
    "organization": "Naantalin kaupunki",
    "status": "Open",
    "publicationDate": "2026-08-31T10:53:24.946Z",
    "deadline": "2026-09-23T07:00:00Z",
    "estimatedValue": "1500000",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "category": "works",
    "cpvCodes": [
        { "code": "45200000", "description": "" }
    ],
    "region": "FI1C1",
    "itemDescription": "Aurinkotien, Ratakadun ja Tuulensuunkadun kadunrakennus. Tämä hankintailmoitus on ilmoitus urakan tarjouskilpailun käynnistämisestä...",
    "contactInfo": {
        "organization": "Naantalin kaupunki",
        "address": "Käsityöläiskatu 2 21100 Naantali FIN",
        "businessId": "0135457-2"
    },
    "url": "https://www.hankintailmoitukset.fi/fi/public/procedure/36490/enotice/55935/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-31T14:10:00.000Z",
    "noticeType": "Contract notice",
    "isEuProcurement": false,
    "winnerOrganisations": "",
    "procurementDocumentsUrl": "https://tarjouspalvelu.fi/naantali?id=623571&tpk=30d6c4e6-434f-4e26-b6dd-1e08c9db2066"
}

Tips for best results

• Daily monitoring: Run on a schedule to catch new notices within hours of publication. Set publishedAfter to yesterday's date for fresh opportunities only.
• Notice type targeting: Filter to ContractNotices for live bidding opportunities, or ContractAwardNotices to track who's winning contracts in your sector.
• Competitor intelligence: Search for a competitor's name to find contracts they've won via winnerOrganisations, or contracts they're likely bidding on.
• Combine with our other Nordic/Baltic procurement actors: Pair with DOFFIN (Norway) or TED (EU-wide) for broader Nordic and European coverage.

How much does it cost to run?

Hilma's search API is free and requires no login. Your only cost is Apify compute time. Because full notice detail comes from a single search request (no per-item detail fetch), this actor is cheap and fast to run — one API call covers up to 1,000 notices.

Search size	Estimated time	Estimated cost
20 notices	~5 seconds	~$0.005
100 notices	~10 seconds	~$0.01
1,000 notices	~30 seconds	~$0.03

Actual cost depends on Apify plan; a run's final usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run will undercount it. Cost per result stays roughly flat around $0.00025–$0.0003 regardless of run size, since notices come back in bulk pages rather than one request per item.

Use as an API

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("studio-amba/hankintailmoitukset-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "rakentaminen",
    "mainType": "ContractNotices",
    "maxResults": 50,
})

for notice in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{notice['itemTitle']} | {notice['organization']} | Deadline: {notice['deadline']}")

Limitations

• Estimated value often absent: Finnish national-threshold procurements (below the EU threshold) frequently don't disclose an estimated contract value on the notice — this is how buyers publish, not a gap in the actor.
• Description text is Finnish by default: Hilma primarily publishes in Finnish; Swedish/English titles and descriptions are used as fallback only when the Finnish field is empty.
• CPV description: some notices publish the CPV code without an accompanying description string, in which case only the code is returned.
• Legacy notices: notices published before Finland's ~2023 move to the EU eForms standard use a slightly different detail URL pattern; the actor detects and builds the correct link automatically.

Other European procurement scrapers

Check the Studio AMBA actor catalog for more European public procurement data, including eTenders (Ireland), DOFFIN (Norway), TenderNed (Netherlands), TED (EU-wide), and Belgian public procurement.

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