Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price
Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.
Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.
Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys agricultural equipment in Austria?
GlobalGov holds 125 agricultural equipment records from 48 distinct buying organisations in Austria. The most frequent publishers are Österreichische Bundesforste AG (42 records); ASFINAG Service GmbH (12 records); ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG (6 records); Magistrat der Stadt Wien - Magistratsabteilung 42 (3 records); Auftraggeber ist die Österreichische Gesundheitskasse (ÖGK), im Vergabeverfahren vertreten durch die Bundesbeschaffung GmbH (2 records); Austrian Power Grid AG (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 54% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Österreichische Bundesforste AG | 42 | 34% |
| ASFINAG Service GmbH | 12 | 9.6% |
| ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG | 6 | 4.8% |
| Magistrat der Stadt Wien - Magistratsabteilung 42 | 3 | 2.4% |
| Auftraggeber ist die Österreichische Gesundheitskasse (ÖGK), im Vergabeverfahren vertreten durch die Bundesbeschaffung GmbH | 2 | 1.6% |
| Austrian Power Grid AG | 2 | 1.6% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in Austria?
14 of the 125 records publish a contract value. The median is $911,628 and the largest single published value is $29.6M. By size, 2 under $100k, 6 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 111 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 2 | 14% |
| between $100k and $1M | 6 | 43% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 29% |
| above $10M | 2 | 14% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in Austria?
Across the 30 Austria agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 39. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in Austria?
Austria published 13 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 18% more than the 11 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 60, spread across 43 separate months of activity since 30 June 2021. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Austria compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, Austria ranks 27th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 125 here). Within Austria itself, agricultural equipment is the 22nd largest of the 44 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Austria agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 125 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (125). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Agricultural Equipment tenders in Austria
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical agricultural equipment notice in Austria is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Austria – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – Erhaltungspflege öffentliche Grünflächen
Austria – Tree-maintenance services – Baumkontrolle ASFINAG SG 2025-2028 Region Nord Oberösterreich
Austria – Tree-maintenance services – Rahmenvereinbarung Dienstleistungen für Baumpflege und Baumabtragungen auf Friedhöfen
Austria – Services incidental to logging – Produktion und Transport von Biomasse im Forstbetrieb Kärnten-Lungau (177)
Austria – Composting services – Kompostierung von Grün und Strauchschnitt
Austria – Agricultural machinery – Mobiler Grünschnittzerkleinerer
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