Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit
ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.
Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.
The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.
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 ict equipment in Cyprus?
GlobalGov holds 50 ict equipment records from 18 distinct buying organisations in Cyprus. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (8 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (4 records); International buyer (4 records); Electricity Authority of Cyprus (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 60% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 8 | 16% |
| International buyer | 6 | 12% |
| International buyer | 5 | 10% |
| International buyer | 4 | 8.0% |
| International buyer | 4 | 8.0% |
| Electricity Authority of Cyprus | 3 | 6.0% |
What are ict equipment contracts worth in Cyprus?
24 of the 50 records publish a contract value. The median is $521,749 and the largest single published value is $16.0M. By size, 2 under $100k, 17 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 26 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 | 8.3% |
| between $100k and $1M | 17 | 71% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 17% |
| above $10M | 1 | 4.2% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ict equipment tenders in Cyprus?
Across the 10 Cyprus ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 37. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are ict equipment tenders published in Cyprus?
Cyprus published 3 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 19, spread across 33 separate months of activity since 22 June 2021. December 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 Cyprus compare with other ict equipment markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, Cyprus ranks 31st by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 50 here). Within Cyprus itself, ict equipment is the 12th largest of the 27 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Cyprus ict equipment records on this page come from?
These 50 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (50). 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 Ict Equipment tenders in Cyprus
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 50 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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