The assets around a road, and why they are often a separate contract
Road infrastructure as a procurement heading usually means the assets that make a carriageway work rather than the carriageway itself: drainage, retaining structures, barriers and restraint systems, signs and gantries, lighting columns, road markings, traffic signals and the ducting and detection that serve them. These are let separately from surfacing contracts because they are different trades with different certifications, and because their renewal cycles do not coincide with the pavement's.
Products in this category are type-approved rather than described. Vehicle restraint systems are specified by tested containment level and working width; signs by retroreflective class and by the standard governing their design; markings by retroreflectivity and skid resistance measured after laying; lighting by photometric performance against a lighting class. Bidders supply certificates against the specific product and installation configuration, and installers frequently need their own sector accreditation for work such as signal installation or lighting electrical work.
Working on a live road is the cost driver that separates competent bids from cheap ones. Lane closures are permitted in defined windows, often at night, under an approved traffic management plan with its own design, equipment and trained operatives; occupancy of the road is frequently charged or penalised by duration, so the programme is priced in hours rather than days. Bidders are normally required to hold sector qualifications for working on the network, and the buyer's permit regime -- who books the closure, how far ahead, and what happens if it overruns -- is usually a better guide to the real cost than the bill of quantities.
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 road & infrastructure in Bulgaria?
GlobalGov holds 106 road & infrastructure records from 85 distinct buying organisations in Bulgaria. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (6 records); International buyer (4 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (3 records); International buyer (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 20% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 6 | 5.7% |
| International buyer | 4 | 3.8% |
| International buyer | 3 | 2.8% |
| International buyer | 3 | 2.8% |
| International buyer | 3 | 2.8% |
| International buyer | 2 | 1.9% |
What are road & infrastructure contracts worth in Bulgaria?
71 of the 106 records publish a contract value. The median is $320,833 and the largest single published value is $72.2M. By size, 19 under $100k, 36 between $100k and $1M, 12 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 35 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 | 19 | 27% |
| between $100k and $1M | 36 | 51% |
| between $1M and $10M | 12 | 17% |
| above $10M | 4 | 5.6% |
How long do bidders get to respond to road & infrastructure tenders in Bulgaria?
Across the 38 Bulgaria road & infrastructure notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 29 days. A quarter of them allowed 23 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 34. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (7.9%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are road & infrastructure tenders published in Bulgaria?
Bulgaria publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 29 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 36, spread across 51 separate months of activity since 31 October 2011. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 10 September 2026.
How does Bulgaria compare with other road & infrastructure markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable road & infrastructure market, Bulgaria ranks 22nd by number of records. The largest is Australia (4,306 records against 106 here). Within Bulgaria itself, road & infrastructure is the 33rd largest of the 53 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Bulgaria road & infrastructure records on this page come from?
These 106 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (82), the Bulgaria national tender archive (24). 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 Road & Infrastructure tenders in Bulgaria
Showing 10 of the 11 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 – Public road transport services – „Осигуряване на превозни документи (абонаментни карти) за пътуване по маршрутите на обществения градски транспорт на територията на Столична община (трамваен, тролейбусен, автобусен и метро) за служители на Столична регионална здравна инспекция"
Bulgaria – Public road transport services – Обществен превоз на пътници по автобусни линии, част от републиканска транспортна схема, от квотата на община Неделино, съгласно утвърдени маршрутни разписания по три обособени позиции
Bulgaria – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – „Транспорт на пациенти, нуждаещи се от хемодиализа от дома им до Отделение «Диализно лечение» в МБАЛ „Света Анна-Варна“АД и обратно по утвърден седмичен график и поименен списък в следните населени места: Варна, Долни чифлик, Балчик, , Ветрино, Девня Бяла, Провадия, Вълчи дол, Белослав, Аксаково, Аврен, Суворово, Обзор и Дългопол за период от две години”
Bulgaria – Road-inspection services – „Провеждане на одит за пътна безопасност на етап „Технически проект“ за обект: „Изработване на технически проект за извършване на основен ремонт на обект: II-15 от км 0+000 до км 77+872, с обща дължина 77.872 км, на територията на област Враца“
Bulgaria – Road-inspection services – „Провеждане на одит за пътна безопасност на етап „Преди въвеждане в експлоатация“ и на етап „Начална експлоатация“ за обект: „Основен ремонт на мост над р. Дунав /Дунав мост/ между Русе и Гюргево на път I-2 Русе – Разград от км 0+000 до км 1+057”
Bulgaria – Road transport services – Специализиран превоз на пътници, по обособени позиции
Bulgaria – Public road transport services – „Извършване на обществен превоз на пътници по общинска, областна и междуобластна транспортни схеми, съгласно маршрутни разписания по 9 (девет) обособени позиции“
Bulgaria – Public road transport services – “Извършване на обществен превоз на пътници по автобусни линии и специализиран превоз на деца и ученици по определени маршрутни разписания по 6 /шест/ обособени позиции“
Bulgaria – Road transport services – „Осъществяване на транспортна услуга за нуждите на Община „Тунджа” по обособени позиции
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