What makes healthcare building different from other construction
Healthcare buildings are engineering projects with a clinical brief, and the brief drives the cost. Ventilation is the clearest example: operating theatres, isolation rooms and pharmacy clean rooms require specified air change rates and controlled pressure relationships between adjacent spaces, verified by testing before the space can be used. Medical gas pipelines are installed, purity-tested and certified under a regime of their own. Imaging suites need radiation shielding designed against a physicist's calculation. None of this is discretionary and none of it can be value-engineered out late.
Most of this work happens on a site that is already a working hospital, which converts a construction programme into a logistics problem. Possession is phased around clinical services that cannot stop, decanting wards in sequence; infection control governs the site as much as safety does, with sealed hoardings, negative pressure in work zones, and dust and water management written into the contract because construction dust near immunocompromised patients is a clinical risk. Noise and vibration limits follow ward and theatre timetables rather than working hours.
Because the brief is complex and the risk is high, buyers in this category often avoid a straight lowest-price competition. Two-stage tendering and early contractor involvement are common: the contractor is selected on team, approach and preliminaries early, then works with the design team before a final price is agreed. Commissioning is a distinct and heavily specified phase, with clinical staff training, equipment installation and validation of every serviced system before handover, and the completion date that matters is the one the building can safely treat patients on, not the one the builder leaves.
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 hospital construction in Greece?
GlobalGov holds 232 hospital construction records from 124 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (12 records); International buyer (7 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 18% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 12 | 5.2% |
| International buyer | 7 | 3.0% |
| International buyer | 6 | 2.6% |
| International buyer | 6 | 2.6% |
| International buyer | 6 | 2.6% |
| International buyer | 4 | 1.7% |
What are hospital construction contracts worth in Greece?
192 of the 232 records publish a contract value. The median is $7.0M and the largest single published value is $1.8B. By size, 30 between $100k and $1M, 102 between $1M and $10M, 60 above $10M. The remaining 40 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 30 | 16% |
| between $1M and $10M | 102 | 53% |
| above $10M | 60 | 31% |
How long do bidders get to respond to hospital construction tenders in Greece?
Across the 67 Greece hospital construction notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 42 days. A quarter of them allowed 37 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 53. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are hospital construction tenders published in Greece?
Greece published 22 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 37% fewer than the 35 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 129, spread across 51 separate months of activity since 2 June 2021. July 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 hospital construction markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable hospital construction market, Greece ranks 25th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (12,404 records against 232 here). Within Greece itself, hospital construction is the 19th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece hospital construction records on this page come from?
These 232 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (232). 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 Hospital Construction 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 hospital construction notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Greece – Veterinary services – PROVISION OF EVALUATION - COLLECTION - TRAINING - HOSPITALITY AND VETERINARY SERVICES FOR THE WANTED ANIMALS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF KASSANDRA
Greece – Medical practice and related services – ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ (α/α ΕΣΗΔΗΣ: 388479) ΑΝΟΙΚΤΗΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ ΑΝΩ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΙΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΧΗ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΩΝ ΕΞ ΑΠΟΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ «ΓΝΩΜΑΤΕΥΣΗΣ ΑΞΟΝΙΚΩΝ ΤΟΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΩΝ (CT) (CPV:85121200-5)
Greece – Primary school construction work – ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΕΚΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 5ΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΧΟΛΕΙΟΥ ΧΙΟΥ
Greece – Primary school construction work – ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΕΚΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 5ΟΥ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΧΟΛΕΙΟΥ ΧΙΟΥ
Greece – Building construction work – Α’ ΦΑΣΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΣ – ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ «ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΚΤΙΡΙΟΥ ΧΩΡΩΝ ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΕΩΝ ΜΕ ΥΠΟΓΕΙΟΥΣ ΧΩΡΟΥΣ ΣΤΑΘΜΕΥΣΗΣ»
Greece – Building construction work – ΟΡΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ, ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΤΕΛΕΣΗ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ ΣΤΟΧΕΥΜΕΝΩΝ ΔΟΜΙΚΩΝ ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΝ ΣΤΙΣ ΣΧΕΤΙΚΕΣ ΚΤΙΡΙΑΚΕΣ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ, ΑΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΟΣ ΧΩΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΦΡΑΞΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΓΚΡΟΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΟΑΚΑ
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