Fuel Supply Government Tenders in Croatia

Index-linked pricing and the mechanics of a bulk fuel contract

Nobody bids a fixed price for fuel over a contract term, and a buyer who asks for one is inviting a risk premium rather than a price. These contracts are priced as a differential: a published market reference price for the product, plus or minus a bidder's margin covering supply, transport and service. Evaluation compares those differentials, not pump prices, and the tender specifies which published index is used, on what day it is read and how often it resets. A bidder who does not understand the index is not able to price the margin.

The specification is a product standard plus a delivery regime. Fuel is bought to a recognised national or international specification with seasonal grades where climate requires them, biofuel content stated, and certificates of quality accompanying each delivery. The service terms then decide who can compete: tank sizes and access at each site, minimum and maximum drop quantities, ordering lead time, out-of-hours and emergency delivery, and telemetry or automatic replenishment where the buyer has it. Sites that a large tanker cannot reach quietly exclude most bidders.

The obligations that sit around the fuel are where liability concentrates. Storage tanks, bunding, overfill protection and spill response are regulated, and the delivery driver's compliance with filling procedure is the buyer's environmental exposure as much as the supplier's. Metering accuracy and reconciliation between delivered and invoiced volumes are contractual, and stock loss is a recognised dispute. Where duty relief or a rebated grade applies to particular uses, eligibility and record-keeping transfer obligations to both parties that are worth confirming before the first delivery rather than at audit.

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 fuel supply in Croatia?

GlobalGov holds 625 fuel supply records from 440 distinct buying organisations in Croatia. The most frequent publishers are Grad Zagreb (9 records); Grad Samobor (6 records); Grad Zagreb (6 records); HRVATSKE ŠUME d.o.o. (6 records); Dom zdravlja Osječko-baranjske županije (5 records); Hrvatske Autoceste D.o.o. (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 5.9% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are fuel supply contracts worth in Croatia?

444 of the 625 records publish a contract value. The median is $648,000 and the largest single published value is $203.5M. By size, 10 under $100k, 253 between $100k and $1M, 142 between $1M and $10M, 39 above $10M. The remaining 181 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to fuel supply tenders in Croatia?

Across the 112 Croatia fuel supply notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 30 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (0.9%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are fuel supply tenders published in Croatia?

Croatia published 18 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 69% fewer than the 59 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 172, spread across 94 separate months of activity since 30 January 2018. November is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 4 May 2026, 150 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Croatia compare with other fuel supply markets?

Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable fuel supply market, Croatia ranks 10th by number of records. The largest is United States (7,899 records against 625 here). Within Croatia itself, fuel supply is the 6th largest of the 48 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Croatia fuel supply records on this page come from?

These 625 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (404), EOJN (221). 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 Fuel Supply tenders in Croatia

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 fuel supply notice in Croatia is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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