Storage contracts, stock accuracy and the terms that decide the price
Warehousing is priced on two axes that bidders must read separately: space and handling. Storage is charged per pallet or square metre per period and is driven by the profile of the stock -- how tall it stacks, how fast it moves, whether it needs ambient, chilled or secure conditions. Handling is charged per movement in and out and is driven by order profile, particularly the proportion of orders picked in individual units rather than full pallets, which is an order of magnitude more labour per item.
Accuracy obligations are the operational core of the contract. Buyers specify stock accuracy against a cycle counting regime, order picking accuracy, dispatch on time, and the process for investigating and settling discrepancies, with liability for loss and shrinkage allocated explicitly. Where the stock has a shelf life, batch and expiry management with first-expiry-first-out rotation is specified and audited, and where it is controlled -- pharmaceuticals, hazardous goods, weapons, evidence -- licensing, segregation and access control apply on top.
Systems integration decides whether the arrangement works in practice. The supplier's warehouse management system has to exchange orders, receipts, stock positions and dispatch confirmations with the buyer's systems, and the cost and timescale of that integration is frequently underestimated on both sides. Contracts also need to answer what happens at the end: whose racking and equipment, who owns the data, how long a stock transfer takes and who pays for it. An exit that has not been priced is a lock-in whatever the contract term says.
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 warehousing in France?
GlobalGov holds 438 warehousing records from 375 distinct buying organisations in France. The most frequent publishers are Région Occitanie (5 records); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (4 records); Commune de Saint-Pierre (3 records); Mairie De Metz (3 records); Métropole De Lyon (3 records); Acqua Publica (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 4.6% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Région Occitanie | 5 | 1.1% |
| Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives | 4 | 0.9% |
| Commune de Saint-Pierre | 3 | 0.7% |
| Mairie De Metz | 3 | 0.7% |
| Métropole De Lyon | 3 | 0.7% |
| Acqua Publica | 2 | 0.5% |
What are warehousing contracts worth in France?
175 of the 438 records publish a contract value. The median is $388,800 and the largest single published value is $20.5B. By size, 8 under $100k, 74 between $100k and $1M, 57 between $1M and $10M, 36 above $10M. The remaining 263 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 | 8 | 4.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 74 | 42% |
| between $1M and $10M | 57 | 33% |
| above $10M | 36 | 21% |
How long do bidders get to respond to warehousing tenders in France?
Across the 188 France warehousing notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 7 (3.7%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are warehousing tenders published in France?
France publishes about 24 notices a month in this category, 292 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 302, spread across 62 separate months of activity since 22 June 2016. July is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 13 September 2026.
How does France compare with other warehousing markets?
Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable warehousing market, France ranks 3rd by number of records. The largest is United States (1,277 records against 438 here). Within France itself, warehousing is the 54th largest of the 86 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the France warehousing records on this page come from?
These 438 records are collected from 2 official sources: BOAMP (252), TED (186). 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 Warehousing tenders in France
Showing 10 of the 33 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.
Project management for the renovation of the water and sewerage systems in the dormitories at ECS and LPO V. Larbaud (03-Cusset)
France – Water distribution and related services – Fourniture et maintenance de fontaines réfrigérantes, nécessaire aux besoins de l’AP-HP.
France – Storage containers – Fourniture de conteneurs maritimes d'occasion
France – Drinking-water distribution – Concession de service public d'eau potable
Supply of specialty breads and conventional and organic pastries for sharing, delivered via a short supply chain to the central kitchen of the 20th arrondissement’s school fund
France – Printing and distribution services – Traitement des courriers de masse et des courriers égrenés
France – Drinking-water distribution – Accord-cadre de maintenance et d'astreinte sur les ouvrages de stockage et de surpression de la Régie Malouine de l’Eau et l’astreinte pour les interventions d’urgence sur le réseau d’eau potable de la ville de Saint-Malo.
Work to reinforce, bury, and extend public electricity distribution networks, the street lighting system, and civil engineering works for the electrical communications network
Issuance, distribution, management, and tracking of meal vouchers
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