Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job
Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.
The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.
Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.
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 maintenance & repair in Bulgaria?
GlobalGov holds 336 maintenance & repair records from 251 distinct buying organisations in Bulgaria. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (11 records); International buyer (10 records); International buyer (7 records); International buyer (4 records); International buyer (4 records); BG (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 11 | 3.3% |
| International buyer | 10 | 3.0% |
| International buyer | 7 | 2.1% |
| International buyer | 4 | 1.2% |
| International buyer | 4 | 1.2% |
| BG | 3 | 0.9% |
What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in Bulgaria?
229 of the 336 records publish a contract value. The median is $44,000 and the largest single published value is $58.5M. By size, 148 under $100k, 65 between $100k and $1M, 14 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 107 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 | 148 | 65% |
| between $100k and $1M | 65 | 28% |
| between $1M and $10M | 14 | 6.1% |
| above $10M | 2 | 0.9% |
How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in Bulgaria?
Across the 114 Bulgaria maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 29 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 6 (5.3%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in Bulgaria?
Bulgaria publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 81 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 102, spread across 85 separate months of activity since 29 August 2008. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 10 September 2026.
How does Bulgaria compare with other maintenance & repair markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, Bulgaria ranks 17th by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 336 here). Within Bulgaria itself, maintenance & repair is the 19th largest of the 53 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Bulgaria maintenance & repair records on this page come from?
These 336 records are collected from 3 official sources: TED (288), the Bulgaria national tender archive (47), UN Global Marketplace (1). 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.
Open Maintenance & Repair tenders in Bulgaria
Showing 10 of the 15 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Bulgaria market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
Bulgaria – Aircraft maintenance services – Надграждане (ъпгрейд) на компоненти от авиониката и системите на самолет С-27J „Spartаn“
Bulgaria – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – Предоставяне на услуги по поддръжка на открити площи на УМБАЛ „Свети Георги“ ЕАД – Пловдив
Bulgaria – Car maintenance services – „Осигуряване на услуги по извънгаранционна поддръжка на служебните автомобили, собственост на ИАОС“
Bulgaria – Car maintenance services – „Осигуряване на услуги по извънгаранционна поддръжка на служебните автомобили, собственост на ИАОС“
Bulgaria – Car maintenance services – „Осигуряване на услуги по извънгаранционна поддръжка на служебните автомобили, собственост на ИАОС“
Bulgaria – Car maintenance services – „Осигуряване на услуги по извънгаранционна поддръжка на служебните автомобили, собственост на ИАОС“
Bulgaria – Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment – „Техническо обслужване на моторни превозни средства/МПС/, включващо основен, текущ ремонт и профилактика на МПС, доставка на резервни части и аксесоари за нуждите на ТП „ДГС Кюстендил“ за срок от 24 месеца“
Bulgaria – Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment – Извънгаранционна сервизна поддръжка с включен труд и резервни части на медицинска апаратура в УМБАЛСМ „Н. И. Пирогов“ ЕАД – част 6
Bulgaria – Grounds maintenance services – „Сезонно поддържане зелени площи на територията на град Стара Загора“ по обособени позиции:
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