Laikku is maintained by the City of Tampere's Public Cultural Services, and the building also houses several other organizations. Laikku offers its visitors cultural events, exhibitions, and rentable spaces for various events and meetings. In 2025, Laikku had 88,397 visitors, and the Children's Cultural Centre Rulla, which operates in the same building, had 38,189 visitors.
The City of Tampere has opened a market dialogue (in Finnish) concerning the procurement of a license agreement for the operation of the Café Laikku.
The selected service provider will operate as a café entrepreneur. The role includes running the café during agreed opening hours, selling meeting refreshments, and marketing the business.
In order to ensure that the upcoming competitive tendering process runs as smoothly as possible, we ask service providers in the field to familiarize themselves with the preliminary tender documentation and respond to any related questions in our Toimittajapalvelu ('supplier service') by Monday, February 23, 2026, at 12 noon.
Participation requires registration with the Toimittajapalvelu. Participation in the market dialogue does not bind the company to the subsequent competitive tendering process, nor is participation a prerequisite for the actual competitive tendering process.
After the market dialogue, an actual request for tenders will be drawn up and published in March–April. The aim is to make a quick procurement decision so that there is no long break in café operations.
The contract period for the current entrepreneurs running Café Laikku ends on May 15, 2026, after which they will continue their journey in Tammela. "We have been running Café Laikku for almost three years. Now it is time for us to move on when the contract ends. Café Laikku will remain open under the current entrepreneurs until May 15, and until then, our operations will continue as normal," say entrepreneurs Saura Pohjonen and Rosa Salminen from the Saawa cooperative.
