Hansel – Digital services for smoother procurement
Hansel is a joint procurement company that serves the public sector. Hansel has more than 100 framework agreements and dynamic procurement systems. The company's goal is to protect society's resources by increasing productivity in the procurement activities of the state, municipalities, universities, and parishes. The core values of Hansel's operations are responsibility and digitalisation.
Hansel and Haallas* have a long partnership history which began in November 2013 when the first online service project was launched. Hansel puts its digital service partnership up for tender every four years, and Haallas has won the last two rounds. Cooperation to develop Hansel's digital services continues uninterrupted to this day.
Statistics on the services
- Number of customers using the services: 10,681
- Number of suppliers (service providers) using the services: 2,859
- Value of purchase through joint procurement per year: more than € 1 billion
The Hansel.fi -service includes various integrated online services and applications. The most important of these include the Hansel.fi -transaction service, tender tools, and the reporting service for contract suppliers. Users include Hansel employees, Hansel's customers, and joint procurement suppliers. There are a large number of users and service transactions, and the services significantly support public procurement.
“The cooperation with Haallas has been fluent and smooth. Together with Haallas, Hansel has digitized its most important business needs, and the rapid development work continues without compromising on quality. The turnover of the team has been small over the years, and as the needs have increased, the team size has also been increased flexibly. Haallas is Hansel's trusted partner in the development of digital services.”
- Piia Laajala, Service Manager, Hansel
The projects have highlighted the strong cooperation between the two companies - Haallas has provided technical design and development power, and Hansel has been responsible for the services as a product owner. The technologies used include Azure DevOps, Django, Python, React & TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Design System.
“We have been able to select and use modern technologies to innovate existing and develop new features and applications. Over the course of the project, I have learned a lot about public administration. The fact that the mission is to generate savings for public administration, and thus for all taxpayers, with better digital services also adds to the meaning.”
– Juho Pekkala, Senior Software Developer, Haallas
With this cooperation producing such good results, we do not want to stop there. In a changing world, our development work continues all the time.
*When the collaboration began, Haallas’ name was Arcusys
