Maintenance & Repair Government Tenders in France

Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job

Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.

The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.

Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.

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 maintenance & repair in France?

GlobalGov holds 6,086 maintenance & repair records from 3,514 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Ville De Paris - DFA - SDA (27 records); Bordeaux Métropole (26 records); Toulouse Métropole (23 records); Métropole Aix Marseille Provence (17 records); Assistance Publique Hopitaux DE Paris (16 records); CHU De Lille - ES Du GHT Hpgl (15 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 2.0% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in France?

2,353 of the 6,086 records publish a contract value. The median is $270,108 and the largest single published value is $1.3B. By size, 119 under $100k, 1,248 between $100k and $1M, 811 between $1M and $10M, 175 above $10M. The remaining 3,733 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in France?

Across the 2,968 France maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 44. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 63 (2.1%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in France?

France publishes about 379 notices a month in this category, 4,545 in the last twelve months. That is 18080% more than the 25 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 4,614, spread across 97 separate months of activity since 4 June 2015. July is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 15 September 2026.

How does France compare with other maintenance & repair markets?

Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, France ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 6,086 here). Within France itself, maintenance & repair is the 9th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the France maintenance & repair records on this page come from?

These 6,086 records are collected from 3 official sources: BOAMP (3,712), TED (2,373), DECP (1). 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 Maintenance & Repair tenders in France

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 maintenance & repair notice in France is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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