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 Italy?
GlobalGov holds 406 telecommunications records from 218 distinct buying organisations in Italy. The most frequent publishers are RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. (37 records); Banca d'Italia (14 records); TERNA (14 records); Infratel Italia S.p.A. (10 records); Consip Spa (9 records); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (8 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. | 37 | 9.1% |
| Banca d'Italia | 14 | 3.4% |
| TERNA | 14 | 3.4% |
| Infratel Italia S.p.A. | 10 | 2.5% |
| Consip Spa | 9 | 2.2% |
| Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | 8 | 2.0% |
What are telecommunications contracts worth in Italy?
354 of the 406 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.4M and the largest single published value is $3.9B. By size, 151 between $100k and $1M, 144 between $1M and $10M, 59 above $10M. The remaining 52 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 | 151 | 43% |
| between $1M and $10M | 144 | 41% |
| above $10M | 59 | 17% |
How long do bidders get to respond to telecommunications tenders in Italy?
Across the 124 Italy telecommunications notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 41 days. A quarter of them allowed 36 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 50. 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 Italy?
Italy publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 29 in the last twelve months. That is 63% fewer than the 79 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 187, spread across 60 separate months of activity since 5 October 2020. June 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 Italy compare with other telecommunications markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable telecommunications market, Italy ranks 10th by number of records. The largest is United States (6,964 records against 406 here). Within Italy itself, telecommunications is the 27th largest of the 69 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Italy telecommunications records on this page come from?
These 406 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (406). 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 Italy
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 Italy is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Italy – Video-surveillance system – INTERVENTI DI REALIZZAZIONE E MANTENIMENTO IN ESERCIZIO DELL'IMPIANTO DI VIDEOSORVEGLIANZA DEL PORTO DI ORISTANO
Italy – Optical-fibre cables for data transmission – Procedura aperta ai sensi dell'art 71 del D.Lgs 36/2023 finalizzata all'acquisizione di una Fornitura in I.R.U di link in fibra ottica nel territorio comunale di Trieste e servizi correlati
Italy – Multimedia equipment – Accordo quadro quadriennale con un unico operatore economico per la fornitura e l'allestimento di sistemi ed apparati multimediali, comprensivo di servizi accessori per l'Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca
Italy – Telecommunications cable – GARA EUROPEA A PROCEDURA TELEMATICA APERTA, SUDDIVISA IN TRE LOTTI, PER LA STIPULA DI UN ACCORDO QUADRO AVENTE AD OGGETTO LA FORNITURA DI PUNTI RETE (AMMODERNAMENTO CABLAGGIO RETE DATI PASSIVA) PRESSO DIVERSE STRUTTURE SANITARIE NEL TERRITORIO DELLA REGIONE SARDEGNA
Italy – Local area network – Gara a procedura aperta ai sensi del D.Lgs. 36/2023 e s.m.i., per l’affidamento della fornitura di prodotti e servizi per la realizzazione, manutenzione e gestione di reti locali ai sensi dell’articolo 26, legge 23 dicembre 1999 n. 488 e s.m.i. e dell’articolo 58, legge 23 dicembre 2000 n. 388 – ID 2777
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