Home care services The subject of the procurement is home care services for home care clients in the northern home care team area of Kainuu Welfare Area in Kajaani, between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM every day of the week throughout the year. The service must include regular and temporary home care. The service provider commits to providing services in accordance with the clients' service decisions. The service is primarily carried out through physical client visits.
Kainuu Welfare Area currently provides home care through its own service production and through service vouchers. Own service production includes 24/7 home care, safety assistant service, remote care (digital technology), and medication dispensers. Service voucher production is part of the current multi-provider model. In line with the multi-provider model, it will continue to be possible to grant service vouchers to clients in the area to be procured. The service provider selected based on the procurement will not have an exclusive right to provide all home care in the area.
Remote care, safety assistant services, night care, and the issuance of medication dispenser credentials and user training are excluded from the service included in this procurement. For these, services will be provided in accordance with the partnership model described in the attached home care service description of Kainuu Welfare Area.
The procurement involves a partial business transfer. The subject of the business transfer is the functional entity related to the service production covered by the procurement, as well as the transferring personnel defined separately in the business transfer agreement. The number of transferring personnel is estimated to be approximately 40 people at the time of the tender request publication. The personnel are mainly practical nurses by training. The final number of transferring personnel will be determined according to the situation at the time of the business transfer. A partial business transfer will be agreed upon by a separate business transfer agreement. This is a business transfer as referred to in Chapter 1, Section 10 of the Employment Contracts Act (55/2001). In connection with the business transfer, the personnel primarily belonging to the service production covered by the procurement will transfer to the service of the selected service provider as so-called old employees in accordance with the principles of business transfer. The rights and obligations related to the employment relationships of the transferring employees will transfer to the recipient of the business transfer at the time of transfer in accordance with current legislation. The service provider is responsible for employer obligations related to the transferring personnel after the transfer.
The partial business transfer agreement will provide anonymized information necessary for tender calculation regarding the transferring personnel. The information will be presented in a way that individual employees cannot be identified. After the procurement decision, the selected service provider will be provided with the individualized personnel information necessary for the preparation of the business transfer according to a separately agreed schedule. The transfer of information will take place in accordance with current data protection legislation, labor data protection regulations, and legislation concerning business transfers.
Bidders must note that for the transferring personnel, the criteria mentioned in the procurement object criteria, section personnel and competence, are absolute minimum requirements for the procurement object and their fulfillment is mandatory; and in the future, if the service provider recruits personnel, the recruited personnel must meet the requirements of the tender request.
Detailed terms and information regarding the transferring personnel will be defined in the partial business transfer agreement attached to the tender request.
Contract period
The service must comply with the tender request and its attachments throughout the entire contract period. The service provider commits to providing the service under the terms specified in the tender request documents for the entire contract period.
The procurement contract is intended to be signed after the procurement decision has become legally valid or the conclusion of the contract is otherwise possible in accordance with procurement legislation. The contract will enter into force when both parties have signed it.
The actual contract period is fixed for the period from March 1, 2027, to February 28, 2031.
At the beginning of the contract period, preparatory, takeover, and transition phase measures related to the start of service production will be implemented, including the implementation of the partial business transfer related to the procurement, procedures related to personnel transfer, and other measures required for the start of the service.
The implementation date of the partial business transfer is planned for April 1, 2027, or from the first business day following the registration decision of the transfer notification of the social and healthcare service unit concerning the business transfer, whichever is later, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the parties. The service provider must ensure that all services in accordance with the contract are fully provided from the aforementioned date at the latest. Preparations related to the implementation of the business transfer will be initiated immediately after the signing of the procurement contract.
