Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price
Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.
Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.
Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.
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 agricultural equipment in France?
GlobalGov holds 4,262 agricultural equipment records from 2,707 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Office national des forêts (57 records); Office National DES Forets (32 records); voies navigables de France (23 records); ONF-DT IDF No (16 records); Eurométropole de Strasbourg (13 records); Office national des forets (13 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 3.6% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Office national des forêts | 57 | 1.3% |
| Office National DES Forets | 32 | 0.8% |
| voies navigables de France | 23 | 0.5% |
| ONF-DT IDF No | 16 | 0.4% |
| Eurométropole de Strasbourg | 13 | 0.3% |
| Office national des forets | 13 | 0.3% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in France?
1,787 of the 4,262 records publish a contract value. The median is $744,600 and the largest single published value is $432.0M. By size, 58 under $100k, 1,031 between $100k and $1M, 643 between $1M and $10M, 55 above $10M. The remaining 2,475 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 | 58 | 3.2% |
| between $100k and $1M | 1,031 | 58% |
| between $1M and $10M | 643 | 36% |
| above $10M | 55 | 3.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in France?
Across the 1,707 France agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (0.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in France?
France publishes about 28 notices a month in this category, 335 in the last twelve months. That is 66% fewer than the 995 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 2,266, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 12 May 2021. January 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 France compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, France ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within France itself, agricultural equipment is the 16th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 4,262 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (4,158), BOAMP (104). 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 Agricultural Equipment tenders in France
Showing 2 of the 3 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the France 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.
France – Services incidental to agricultural production – Concession sous forme de Délégation de Service Public relative à la gestion et l' exploitation du pole viande du Brivadois en ce qui concerne la partie abattoir public ainsi que la construction, l'équipement et la gestion d'un atelier de découpe.
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