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Väike-Maarja vald adopts new procurement rulebook
New rulebook for Väike-Maarja tenders: yearly plan, 50,000/100,000-euro simplified thresholds, two-bidder mini-contests below them and written deals from 20,000 euros.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 7 November 2026
Industry: Across industries
Väike-Maarja vald has a new procurement rulebook for Väike-Maarja Vallavalitsus and its administered institutions.Riigiteataja The regulation was adopted on 28 October 2026 as No 11, repeals regulation No 26 of 24 August 2023, and enters into force on the third day after publication in Riigi Teataja
Riigiteataja. A procurement is the purchase of goods, the ordering of services, obtaining a design, ordering works or concluding a concession contract, and every amount excludes value added tax
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Planning runs through an annual hankeplaan confirmed by the vallavalitsus within one month after the budget is adoptedRiigiteataja, covering goods and services from 50,000 euros and works from 100,000 euros
Riigiteataja. The plan fixes the subject, the expected procurement and performance times and the responsible persons, and it can be corrected during the year, with genuinely unforeseeable emergencies run off-plan. Commitments beyond one budget year need a volikogu decision unless they sit in the budget strategy or are ordinary management of municipal assets. The plan is published in the procurement register.
A procurement commission is formed by order where needed, permanently or case by case, and anyone with a conflict of interest or doubt about impartiality must step aside from that procurementRiigiteataja. The commission approves the base documents and proposes exclusion, qualification, compliance, rejection and the winner, and it may bring in non-voting experts. Minutes are generally drawn up electronically and entered in the register.
The simplified threshold is 50,000 euros for goods and servicesRiigiteataja and 100,000 euros for works and services concessions
Riigiteataja. A simplified procurement is decided by the vallavalitsus through the plan or an order and run in the procurement register under the statutory simplified procedure, with the vallavalitsus taking the exclusion, qualification, compliance and winner decisions. Contracts worth at least 20,000 euros must be concluded in a form that allows written reproduction
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Below the simplified threshold, goods and services under 50,000 euros and works under 100,000 euros are arranged by the vallavanem, the unit head or the head of the administered institutionRiigiteataja, inviting at least two bidders where competition exists
Riigiteataja. The invitation carries at least a technical description, the price structure, qualification requirements where needed, the deadline and the expected term. The winning choice is fixed in a protocol and confirmed by vallavalitsus order, or by the institution head for its own procurement, and the other bidders are notified within five working days where competition existed
Riigiteataja. Written contracts are signed by the vallavanem or the institution head, but goods or services under 15,000 euros and works under 20,000 euros need no contract and invoice approval suffices
Riigiteataja. Emergency works, purchases tied to a natural person's identity, goods or services clearly below market price and documented direct purchases under 15,000 euros, or 20,000 euros for works, need not follow the comparison procedure.
Social services from 15,000 to 499,999 euros and special services from 15,000 to 99,999 euros need invitations to at least two persons, or one where competition is insufficientRiigiteataja, while contracts under 15,000 euros may go to one person
Riigiteataja. Social and special services at or above the simplified threshold follow the statutory procedure. Conflict confirmations run before each procurement, and documents stay in the register or the document management system.
Legal basis is Väike-Maarja valla hankekord adopted 28 October 2026 No 11Riigiteataja under riigihangete seaduse § 9 lõigete 1 ja 3.
Bidders for Väike-Maarja municipal contracts should meet the new two-bidder invitation, written-form and register-publication duties.