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Hansel Ltd.

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Industry
  
Public procurement

Products
  
Framework agreements

Founded
  
2003

Type of business
  
Government enterprise

Area served
  
Finland

Website
  
Hansel's webpage

Number of employees
  
74 (2015)

Hansel Ltd.

Parent
  
Ministry of Finance, Finland

Hansel Ltd. is the central procurement unit of the Finnish Government. The objective of the operations of the company is to produce savings for the Finnish Government by putting framework agreements for goods and services out to tender. Hansel's tasks and roles are defined in the Public Procurement Act and the State Procurement Strategy.

In 2015, Hansel Ltd. made government procurement agreements to a value of EUR 697  million (EUR 715  million in 2014). Hansel Ltd’s customers consist of the ministries, their subordinate bureaus and other government agencies in Finland.

The public procurement that Hansel Ltd is involved in refers to the purchase of goods, services and construction work required from external suppliers by the state, municipalities, joint municipal authorities, state-owned enterprises and other procurement units defined under public procurement legislation.

The company is an expert organisation that employs 74 professionals from various fields and that emphasises responsibility in its operations. Hansel Ltd is a non-profit company that operates under the auspices of the Finnish Ministry of Finance.

Similar organisations can be found in most western European countries, for instance The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the United Kingdom, SKI - National Procurement Ltd. in Denmark and Consip in Italy.

References

Hansel Ltd. Wikipedia