Sizing, fabric testing and the logistics of clothing a workforce
Clothing contracts are decided on evidence about fabric and on the ability to distribute, and rarely on design. Buyers specify textiles by composition and by tested performance -- tensile and tear strength, colour fastness to washing and light, dimensional stability after repeated industrial laundering, pilling and abrasion resistance -- and require test reports from accredited laboratories against the garment offered. For protective clothing the requirement hardens into certification: flame resistance, high-visibility class, chemical or electric arc protection are conformity-assessed categories where an uncertified garment is simply inadmissible.
Fit is a procurement problem rather than a tailoring one. A public workforce spans a wide size range and increasingly requires garments cut for different body shapes, so tenders specify a size chart, a wearer trial with real staff, and an obligation to supply made-to-measure outside the standard range at a controlled price. Wearer trials often change the ranking: a garment that passes every laboratory test and is uncomfortable over a shift will be rejected by the people who have to wear it, and buyers know it.
The service wrapped around the garment is usually what differentiates bids. Individual ordering portals with entitlement rules by role, name-labelled packing to the wearer rather than to a site, replacement lead times, buffer stock held by the supplier, and a commitment to keep a pattern available for years so that a workforce does not end up in two shades of the same uniform are all priced obligations. Ethical supply chain evidence and end-of-life take-back are now commonly scored, and both require traceability further up the chain than a converter usually holds.
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 uniforms clothing in Greece?
GlobalGov holds 222 uniforms clothing records from 110 distinct buying organisations in Greece. The most frequent publishers are International buyer (24 records); International buyer (12 records); International buyer (10 records); International buyer (9 records); International buyer (8 records); International buyer (8 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 32% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| International buyer | 24 | 11% |
| International buyer | 12 | 5.4% |
| International buyer | 10 | 4.5% |
| International buyer | 9 | 4.1% |
| International buyer | 8 | 3.6% |
| International buyer | 8 | 3.6% |
What are uniforms clothing contracts worth in Greece?
195 of the 222 records publish a contract value. The median is $455,873 and the largest single published value is $106.3M. By size, 12 under $100k, 141 between $100k and $1M, 39 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 27 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 | 12 | 6.2% |
| between $100k and $1M | 141 | 72% |
| between $1M and $10M | 39 | 20% |
| above $10M | 3 | 1.5% |
How long do bidders get to respond to uniforms clothing tenders in Greece?
Across the 47 Greece uniforms clothing notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 40 days. A quarter of them allowed 35 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 43. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are uniforms clothing tenders published in Greece?
Greece published 14 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 46% fewer than the 26 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 91, spread across 54 separate months of activity since 18 May 2021. October 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 uniforms clothing markets?
Among the 32 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable uniforms clothing market, Greece ranks 16th by number of records. The largest is France (2,128 records against 222 here). Within Greece itself, uniforms clothing is the 21st largest of the 56 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Greece uniforms clothing records on this page come from?
These 222 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (222). 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 Uniforms Clothing 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 uniforms clothing notice in Greece is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Greece – Work gloves – ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ ΠΛΑΙΣΙΟ «ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥΧΟΥΣ ΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΣΤΟ ΔΗΜΟ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ»
Greece – Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories – ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ 38/2025
Greece – Work gloves – ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ ΠΛΑΙΣΙΟ «ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥΧΟΥΣ ΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΣΤΟ ΔΗΜΟ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ»
Greece – Disposable gloves – ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ ANOIXTOY ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΥ ΑΝΩ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΙΩΝ (ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ) ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΓΑΝΤΙΩΝ, για τισ αναγκεσ του γ.ν.-κ.υ. ναξου, ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑΣ ΕΝΟΣ (1) ΕΤΟΥΣ.
Greece – Work gloves – ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ ΠΛΑΙΣΙΟ «ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥΧΟΥΣ ΕΡΓΑΖΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΣΤΟ ΔΗΜΟ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ»
Greece – Gloves – Γάντια
Greece – Occupational clothing – Δ8230
Greece – Waterproof clothing – Δ.03/25 της ΥΠ/ΠΑ για την Προμήθεια Ειδών Ιματισμού «Χιτώνιο Γραμμής Πτήσης (Τεχνικών)»
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