Buying, leasing and specifying a public fleet
The first decision in a fleet competition is whether the buyer is purchasing vehicles or contracting for their use. Outright purchase puts residual value, maintenance and disposal risk on the buyer and usually produces the lowest headline price. Leasing or contract hire bundles finance, maintenance, replacement and disposal into a monthly figure and moves that risk to the supplier, which changes who can bid: a dealer can supply vehicles, but only a funder can price a residual value over several years. Notices in this category should be read for that distinction before anything else.
Specification is rarely the base vehicle. Public fleets are converted: racking, tail lifts, tipper or refuse bodies, livery, beacons, telematics, safety systems and secure compartments are fitted after manufacture, and the conversion has to be type-approved and warranted without voiding the chassis warranty. That makes the bidder's relationship with a bodybuilder as important as its relationship with a manufacturer, and it makes the delivery date a compound promise rather than a single one.
Evaluation has moved decisively toward whole-life and emissions. Buyers score fuel or energy consumption, emission class, and increasingly zero-emission capability against fleet decarbonisation commitments, and they model fuel, tax and maintenance over the holding period rather than comparing list prices. For electric vehicles the charging infrastructure and its installation is frequently procured in the same competition or an immediately adjacent one, and a bid that supplies vehicles the depot cannot charge answers only part of the requirement.
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 vehicles and fleet in Bulgaria?
GlobalGov holds 1,607 vehicles and fleet records from 445 distinct buying organisations in Bulgaria. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (43 records); International buyer (42 records); International buyer (37 records); International buyer (37 records); International buyer (35 records); International buyer (34 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 14% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 43 | 2.7% |
| International buyer | 42 | 2.6% |
| International buyer | 37 | 2.3% |
| International buyer | 37 | 2.3% |
| International buyer | 35 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 34 | 2.1% |
What are vehicles and fleet contracts worth in Bulgaria?
1,457 of the 1,607 records publish a contract value. The median is $121,000 and the largest single published value is $660.3M. By size, 660 under $100k, 571 between $100k and $1M, 181 between $1M and $10M, 45 above $10M. The remaining 150 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 | 660 | 45% |
| between $100k and $1M | 571 | 39% |
| between $1M and $10M | 181 | 12% |
| above $10M | 45 | 3.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to vehicles and fleet tenders in Bulgaria?
Across the 584 Bulgaria vehicles and fleet notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (0.7%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are vehicles and fleet tenders published in Bulgaria?
Bulgaria publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 73 in the last twelve months. That is 77% fewer than the 320 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 721, spread across 87 separate months of activity since 3 August 2007. October 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 Bulgaria compare with other vehicles and fleet markets?
Among the 41 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable vehicles and fleet market, Bulgaria ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is Germany (12,804 records against 1,607 here). Within Bulgaria itself, vehicles and fleet is the 2nd largest of the 53 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Bulgaria vehicles and fleet records on this page come from?
These 1,607 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (1,556), the Bulgaria national tender archive (51). 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 Vehicles and Fleet tenders in Bulgaria
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 vehicles and fleet notice in Bulgaria is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Bulgaria – Electric vehicles – „Доставка на нов електрически автомобил и свързана зарядна станция за предоставяне на социални услуги в община Ветрино“ по НПВУ на две обособени позиции.
Bulgaria – Electric vehicles – „Доставка на един брой нов електрически пътнически микробус 8+1 места в изпълнение на Проект № BG-RRP-13.009-0112-C01 „Инсталиране на фотоволтаични системи и закупуване на електромобил в социалните услуги на територията на Община Перник““
Bulgaria – Parts and accessories for vehicles and their engines – Периодична доставка на резервни части за селскостопански машини и друга техника, собственост на СЦДП ДП – гр. Габрово, стопанисвани от ТП ДЛС Росица
Bulgaria – Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation – Доставка на дронове и на обучителна техника по автомобилизъм
Bulgaria – Passenger cars – „Доставка на моторни превозни средства за нуждите на община Козлодуй при условията на финансов лизинг” в 4 обособени позиции
Bulgaria – Tyres for heavy/light-duty vehicles – Доставка на нови неупотребявани автомобилни външни гуми, приемане на излезли от употреба гуми и други услуги
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