Licensing, staffing models and what a guarding contract really costs
Manned guarding is a regulated activity in most jurisdictions, and the licence is the first gate. Individual officers hold a licence for the activity they perform -- static guarding, door supervision, cash in transit, close protection -- and the company holds an approval of its own, with screening of employment history over a stated number of years before an officer is deployed. Buyers verify the licences rather than the assertion, and a bid based on a workforce that does not yet hold them is a delivery risk the evaluation is designed to find.
The price is a wage plus an on-cost, and the room for manoeuvre is narrow. Applicable wage floors, holiday and sickness cover, training time, and the relief factor needed to keep a post covered around the clock are close to fixed, so an unusually low bid is usually a signal about one of them. Where a contract is transferring from an incumbent, employment protection rules commonly move the existing officers across on existing terms, which fixes most of the cost before the bidder starts and makes the transferring staff information supplied at tender the most important document in the pack.
Specifications increasingly describe outcomes and the technology that supports them rather than hours on a gate. Assignment instructions, incident reporting, patrol verification, control room monitoring, response times to alarms and integration with electronic access and surveillance systems are all defined and measured. For sites with public access or vulnerable users, conflict management and safeguarding training are specified, and the buyer usually retains the right to require removal of an individual officer without cause, which the bidder has to be able to absorb.
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 security services in Greece?
GlobalGov holds 23 security services records from 21 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (2 records); International buyer (2 records); International buyer (1 record); International buyer (1 record); International buyer (1 record); International buyer (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 35% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 2 | 8.7% |
| International buyer | 2 | 8.7% |
| International buyer | 1 | 4.3% |
| International buyer | 1 | 4.3% |
| International buyer | 1 | 4.3% |
| International buyer | 1 | 4.3% |
What are security services contracts worth in Greece?
21 of the 23 records publish a contract value. The median is $939,600 and the largest single published value is $40.9M. By size, 12 between $100k and $1M, 8 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 2 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 | 12 | 57% |
| between $1M and $10M | 8 | 38% |
| above $10M | 1 | 4.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to security services tenders in Greece?
Across the 18 Greece security services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 37 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 39. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are security services tenders published in Greece?
Greece published 14 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 19, spread across 13 separate months of activity since 8 August 2022. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 8 April 2026, 176 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 security services markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable security services market, Greece ranks 28th by number of records. The largest is Netherlands (1,431 records against 23 here). Within Greece itself, security services is the 54th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece security services records on this page come from?
These 23 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (23). 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 Security Services 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 security services notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Security Services
Greece – Supply services of commercial or industrial workers – Υπηρεσίες Παροχής Υπηρεσιών Διάθεσης Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού για την υλοποίηση – υποστήριξη βιομηχανικών προγραμμάτων παραγωγής από τα Ελληνικά Αμυντικά Συστήματα ΑΒΕΕ
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