Why the cheapest medical device is rarely the cheapest contract
Capital medical equipment is one of the few categories where public buyers routinely and openly decline to buy the lowest price, because the purchase price is a minority of the lifetime cost. Evaluation models in this category are built around total cost of ownership: the device, the installation and any building work it forces, the service contract once the warranty expires, and above all the consumables, reagents or single-use items the device requires for the rest of its life. A platform sold at a discount that only accepts its manufacturer's consumables can be the most expensive option on the table.
Admissibility turns on regulatory conformity. Buyers require the device to carry the conformity marking or registration that applies where it will be used, in the specific configuration offered, and they check that the certificate covers the model and the intended clinical use rather than a family of products. Bidders also commit to a spare parts and software support period measured in years after delivery, to engineer response times, and to applications training for clinical staff at handover, all of which are contractual rather than promotional.
The stage that most often changes the ranking is clinical evaluation. Shortlisted devices are demonstrated to, and frequently trialled by, the staff who will use them, and scored on usability, workflow fit and image or output quality by a panel that includes clinicians. Interoperability is scored alongside it: whether the device writes to the hospital's record and imaging systems using recognised standards, and whether the data belongs to the buyer. A device that cannot be integrated is bought once and replaced early.
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 medical equipment in Denmark?
GlobalGov holds 1,160 medical equipment records from 107 distinct buying organisations in Denmark. The most frequent publishers are Amgros I/S (438 records); Region Hovedstaden (75 records); Region Nordjylland (58 records); Region Midtjylland (57 records); Region Syddanmark (39 records); Aarhus Kommune (31 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgros I/S | 438 | 38% |
| Region Hovedstaden | 75 | 6.5% |
| Region Nordjylland | 58 | 5.0% |
| Region Midtjylland | 57 | 4.9% |
| Region Syddanmark | 39 | 3.4% |
| Aarhus Kommune | 31 | 2.7% |
What are medical equipment contracts worth in Denmark?
805 of the 1,160 records publish a contract value. The median is $4.2M and the largest single published value is $1.4B. By size, 20 under $100k, 128 between $100k and $1M, 381 between $1M and $10M, 276 above $10M. The remaining 355 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 | 20 | 2.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 128 | 16% |
| between $1M and $10M | 381 | 47% |
| above $10M | 276 | 34% |
How long do bidders get to respond to medical equipment tenders in Denmark?
Across the 160 Denmark medical equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 42. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are medical equipment tenders published in Denmark?
Denmark publishes about 20 notices a month in this category, 235 in the last twelve months. That is 65% more than the 142 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 573, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 11 August 2016. May is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 3 September 2026.
How does Denmark compare with other medical equipment markets?
Among the 43 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable medical equipment market, Denmark ranks 21st by number of records. The largest is Poland (24,357 records against 1,160 here). Within Denmark itself, medical equipment is the 1st largest of the 43 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Denmark medical equipment records on this page come from?
These 1,160 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,160). 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 Medical Equipment tenders in Denmark
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 1,160 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Denmark
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