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 Greece?
GlobalGov holds 229 agricultural equipment records from 141 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (6 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 13% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 6 | 2.6% |
| International buyer | 5 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 5 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 5 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 5 | 2.2% |
| International buyer | 4 | 1.7% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in Greece?
205 of the 229 records publish a contract value. The median is $522,727 and the largest single published value is $183.1M. By size, 10 under $100k, 126 between $100k and $1M, 60 between $1M and $10M, 9 above $10M. The remaining 24 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 | 10 | 4.9% |
| between $100k and $1M | 126 | 61% |
| between $1M and $10M | 60 | 29% |
| above $10M | 9 | 4.4% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in Greece?
Across the 106 Greece agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 38 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in Greece?
Greece publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 25 in the last twelve months. That is 58% fewer than the 59 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 139, spread across 58 separate months of activity since 29 June 2021. December 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 Greece compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, Greece ranks 15th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 229 here). Within Greece itself, agricultural equipment is the 20th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 229 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (229). 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 Agricultural Equipment tenders in Greece
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 agricultural equipment notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Greece – Agricultural services – ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟΥ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΥ ΑΝΩ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΙΩΝ ΜΕ ΤΙΤΛΟ: «Ανάδειξη εργολάβων για τον από εδάφους δολωματικό ψεκασμό ελαιόδεντρων στα πλαίσια του Προγράμματος Συλλογικής Καταπολέμησης του Δάκου της Ελιάς στην Περιφέρεια Κρήτης για τα έτη 2026-2028»
Greece – Tree pruning – Εργασία κλαδέματος υψηλών & επικίνδυνων δένδρων και συντήρησης πρασίνου Δήμου 2025
Greece – Agricultural services – «Παροχή υπηρεσιών για τον από εδάφους δολωματικό ψεκασμό ελαιοδέντρων στα πλαίσια του Προγράμματος Συλλογικής Καταπολέμησης του Δάκου Ελιάς, για τα έτη 2026 & 2027
Greece – Agricultural services – «Ανάδειξη εργολάβων για τον από εδάφους δολωματικό ψεκασμό ελαιοδέντρων στα πλαίσια του Προγράμματος Συλλογικής Καταπολέμησης του Δάκου της Ελιάς στην Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας για τα έτη 2026-2027-2028»
Greece – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – Διαμόρφωση και Φύτευση Περιβάλλοντος Χώρου του νέου Φοιτητικού Εστιατορίου - Μαγειρίου της Φοιτητικής Εστίας Πατρών (ΦΕΠ) του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών
Greece – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – ΣΥΝΤΗΡΗΣΗ ΒΕΛΤΙΩΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΓΚΤΑΤΣΤΑΣΗ ΠΡΑΣΙΝΟΥ ΣΤΙΣ ΝΗΣΙΔΕΣ ΑΡΜΟΔΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΠΕ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑ 2025-2026
Greece – Agricultural services – Διακήρυξης Ηλεκτρονικού Ανοικτού Δημόσιου Διαγωνισμού, άνω των ορίων του έργου ¨Παροχή υπηρεσιών για τον από εδάφους δολωματικό ψεκασμό ελαιοδέντρων στα πλαίσια του Προγράμματος Συλλογικής Καταπολέμησης του Δάκου της Ελιάς, για τα έτη 2025,2026 και 2027 στην Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Λευκάδας
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