Permits, monitoring and the evidence an environmental contractor has to produce
Environmental services are bought under a regulatory regime the buyer cannot delegate. Remediation, contaminated land treatment, ecological mitigation, emissions and discharge monitoring and habitat management are all activities that require permits, licences or consents held by specific people or sites, and the contract makes the supplier responsible for holding them while leaving the buyer liable for the land or the discharge. Verification of those permits against the actual scope is a routine part of evaluation.
The deliverable is usually evidence rather than an outcome you can see. Sampling plans with defined locations and frequencies, accredited laboratory analysis, chain of custody, calibration records for field instruments and reporting in a format a regulator will accept are the substance of the contract. Where a supplier both carries out works and verifies them, buyers commonly split the roles, because self-verified remediation is not evidence that will survive a regulator's question.
Ecological work is governed by seasons and by protected species rather than by programme. Surveys can only be done in defined windows, licences for work affecting protected species take time to obtain and impose method statements, and clearance cannot proceed until a survey is valid. Mitigation and compensation frequently carry aftercare obligations measured in years, with a defined success criterion and a liability to replace failures. A bid that prices the intervention and not the monitoring and aftercare period has priced a fraction of the contract.
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 environmental services in Denmark?
GlobalGov holds 29 environmental services records from 26 distinct buying organisations in Denmark. The most frequent publishers are Furesø Kommune (2 records); Kolding Kommune (2 records); AFLD I/S (1 record); ALFA Specialaffald (1 record); AV Miljø (1 record); Aalborg Kloak A/S (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 28% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Furesø Kommune | 2 | 6.9% |
| Kolding Kommune | 2 | 6.9% |
| AFLD I/S | 1 | 3.4% |
| ALFA Specialaffald | 1 | 3.4% |
| AV Miljø | 1 | 3.4% |
| Aalborg Kloak A/S | 1 | 3.4% |
What are environmental services contracts worth in Denmark?
15 of the 29 records publish a contract value. The median is $725,000 and the largest single published value is $1.2B. By size, 11 between $100k and $1M, 2 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 14 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 11 | 73% |
| between $1M and $10M | 2 | 13% |
| above $10M | 2 | 13% |
How long do bidders get to respond to environmental services tenders in Denmark?
Across the 10 Denmark environmental services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 29 days. A quarter of them allowed 16 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 29. 2 of them (20%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are environmental services tenders published in Denmark?
Denmark published 11 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 11, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 14 January 2017. January is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 1 September 2026.
How does Denmark compare with other environmental services markets?
Among the 20 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental services market, Denmark ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is United States (1,269 records against 29 here). Within Denmark itself, environmental services is the 40th largest of the 43 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Denmark environmental services records on this page come from?
These 29 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (29). 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 Environmental Services tenders in Denmark
Showing 1 of the 1 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Denmark 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.
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