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 Poland?
GlobalGov holds 195 security services records from 98 distinct buying organisations in Poland. The most frequent publishers are Państwowe Gospodarstwo Wodne Wody Polskie (22 records); Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie (12 records); Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski W Olsztynie (9 records); Uniwersytet Medyczny W Białymstoku (7 records); Generalna Dyrekcja Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad Oddział w Olsztynie (5 records); Województwo Warmińsko – Mazurskie – Zarząd Dróg Wojewódzkich (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 31% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Państwowe Gospodarstwo Wodne Wody Polskie | 22 | 11% |
| Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie | 12 | 6.2% |
| Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski W Olsztynie | 9 | 4.6% |
| Uniwersytet Medyczny W Białymstoku | 7 | 3.6% |
| Generalna Dyrekcja Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad Oddział w Olsztynie | 5 | 2.6% |
| Województwo Warmińsko – Mazurskie – Zarząd Dróg Wojewódzkich | 5 | 2.6% |
What are security services contracts worth in Poland?
37 of the 195 records publish a contract value. The median is $550,800 and the largest single published value is $65.1M. By size, 6 under $100k, 15 between $100k and $1M, 12 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 158 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 | 6 | 16% |
| between $100k and $1M | 15 | 41% |
| between $1M and $10M | 12 | 32% |
| above $10M | 4 | 11% |
How long do bidders get to respond to security services tenders in Poland?
Across the 130 Poland security services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (0.8%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are security services tenders published in Poland?
Poland publishes about 5 notices a month in this category, 60 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 58 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 140, spread across 47 separate months of activity since 21 June 2021. September 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 Poland compare with other security services markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable security services market, Poland ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is Netherlands (1,431 records against 195 here). Within Poland itself, security services is the 50th largest of the 73 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Poland security services records on this page come from?
These 195 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (189), e-Zamowienia (6). 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 Poland
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 Poland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Poland – Security services – „Usługa ochrony osób i mienia realizowana w formie bezpośredniej ochrony fizycznej terenów, obszarów, obiektów i urządzeń stanowiących jego wyposażenie w kompleksach wojskowych administrowanych przez 33 WOG w Nowej Dębie - zamówienie z podziałem na 17 części”
Poland – Recruitment services – ŚWIADCZENIE USŁUGI POLEGAJĄCEJ NA REKRUTOWANIU ORAZ KIEROWANIU DO MPO – Łódź Sp. z o.o. PRACOWNIKÓW TYMCZASOWYCH W TRYBIE USTAWY Z DNIA 9 LIPCA 2003 R. O ZATRUDNIANIU PRACOWNIKÓW TYMCZASOWYCH
Poland – Security services – Usługi w zakresie konwojowania sprzętu bojowego, broni, amunicji, materiałów wybuchowych oraz innych środków i materiałów niebezpiecznych, realizowanych na rzecz 16 WOG w Drawsku Pomorskim
Poland – Security services – USŁUGA OCHRONY OSÓB I MIENIA WYKONYWANA PRZEZ SPECJALISTYCZNE UZBROJONE FORMACJE OCHRONNE W LATACH 2026 – 2027 W KOMPLEKSACH WOJSKOWYCH ADMINISTROWANYCH PRZEZ 45 WOJSKOWY ODDZIAŁ GOSPODARCZY W MIEJSCOWOŚCIACH: KROSNO ODRZAŃSKIE, CZERWIEŃSK, ZIELONA GÓRA WĘDRZYN, MIĘDZYRZECZ, SKWIERZYNA, GORZÓW WIELKOPOLSKI
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