Connectivity contracts, service levels and the cost of moving supplier
Telecommunications is bought as a service with an engineering tail. The specification names sites, bandwidths, resilience levels and the technology where it matters, but the terms that decide the contract are the service levels: availability expressed as a percentage of the year, time to respond and time to restore by fault severity, planned maintenance windows, and service credits that apply automatically rather than on request. Buyers with operationally critical sites specify diverse routing and separate points of entry, which is a physical requirement a bidder must survey rather than assert.
The commercial shape is a term contract with installation and recurring charges separated, and the installation side carries most of the delivery risk. Wayleaves and access agreements with landowners, civil works to bring a duct to a building, and third-party network lead times sit largely outside the supplier's control, so tenders normally require a site-by-site delivery plan rather than a blanket lead time. A bid that quotes a standard installation period across a portfolio of sites has not surveyed them.
Migration is the hidden cost and the most common reason a buyer stays with an incumbent it is unhappy with. Moving a connected estate involves parallel running, number and address portability, reconfiguration at each site and a cutover per location, and the tender should state who pays for it. Increasingly buyers also specify supply chain security assurance, lawful interception obligations, data residency for traffic and metadata, and end-of-contract obligations that allow the next supplier to take over without the estate being rebuilt again.
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 telecommunications in Greece?
GlobalGov holds 532 telecommunications records from 317 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (16 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (6 records); International buyer (5 records); International buyer (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 8.3% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 16 | 3.0% |
| International buyer | 6 | 1.1% |
| International buyer | 6 | 1.1% |
| International buyer | 6 | 1.1% |
| International buyer | 5 | 0.9% |
| International buyer | 5 | 0.9% |
What are telecommunications contracts worth in Greece?
490 of the 532 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.8M and the largest single published value is $104.7M. By size, 8 under $100k, 150 between $100k and $1M, 309 between $1M and $10M, 23 above $10M. The remaining 42 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 | 1.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 150 | 31% |
| between $1M and $10M | 309 | 63% |
| above $10M | 23 | 4.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to telecommunications tenders in Greece?
Across the 84 Greece telecommunications notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 37 days. A quarter of them allowed 34 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 41. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are telecommunications tenders published in Greece?
Greece published 12 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 74% fewer than the 46 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 188, spread across 54 separate months of activity since 17 May 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 telecommunications markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable telecommunications market, Greece ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is United States (6,964 records against 532 here). Within Greece itself, telecommunications is the 10th largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece telecommunications records on this page come from?
These 532 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (532). 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 Telecommunications 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 telecommunications notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Greece – Network equipment – ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑΣ ΜΕΣΩ ΕΣΗΔΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ «ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΙΣΗ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΩΝ ΥΠΟΔΟΜΩΝ ΑΠΘ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΞΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗΣ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΑΠΟΚΛΕΙΣΜΟΥΣ» (ΑΡΙΘΜΟΣ ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗΣ 659/2025)
Greece – Network upgrade – ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΕΞΟΠΛΙΣΜΟΥ ΟΠΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΛΩΔΙΑΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΤΩΝ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ Γ.Ν.Α Ο ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΜΟΣ-ΠΟΛΥΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΝΠΔΔ
Greece – Network equipment – Διακήρυξη ανοικτού διαγωνισμού άνω των ορίων σε δυο (2) τμήματα για την σύναψη σύμβασης για το έργο «Αντικατάσταση και επέκταση του εξοπλισμού των κέντρων δεδομένων της ΕΔΥΤΕ Α.Ε»
Greece – Telemetry and control equipment – Προμήθεια για την αναβάθμιση του ηλεκτρονικού συστήματος ελέγχου του αρδευτικού δικτύου της πόλης
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