The assets around a road, and why they are often a separate contract
Road infrastructure as a procurement heading usually means the assets that make a carriageway work rather than the carriageway itself: drainage, retaining structures, barriers and restraint systems, signs and gantries, lighting columns, road markings, traffic signals and the ducting and detection that serve them. These are let separately from surfacing contracts because they are different trades with different certifications, and because their renewal cycles do not coincide with the pavement's.
Products in this category are type-approved rather than described. Vehicle restraint systems are specified by tested containment level and working width; signs by retroreflective class and by the standard governing their design; markings by retroreflectivity and skid resistance measured after laying; lighting by photometric performance against a lighting class. Bidders supply certificates against the specific product and installation configuration, and installers frequently need their own sector accreditation for work such as signal installation or lighting electrical work.
Working on a live road is the cost driver that separates competent bids from cheap ones. Lane closures are permitted in defined windows, often at night, under an approved traffic management plan with its own design, equipment and trained operatives; occupancy of the road is frequently charged or penalised by duration, so the programme is priced in hours rather than days. Bidders are normally required to hold sector qualifications for working on the network, and the buyer's permit regime -- who books the closure, how far ahead, and what happens if it overruns -- is usually a better guide to the real cost than the bill of quantities.
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 road & infrastructure in Romania?
GlobalGov holds 141 road & infrastructure records from 83 distinct buying organisations in Romania. The most frequent publishers are Compania Națională de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere S.A. (11 records); Compania Nationala DE Administrare A Infrastructurii Rutiere S.a. (8 records); Compania Nationala De Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere S.a. (4 records); Judetul Vrancea(consiliul Judetean) (4 records); Administrația Națională „Apele Române” — Administrația Bazinală de Apă Mureș (3 records); APA Tarnavei Mari SA (2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Compania Națională de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere S.A. | 11 | 7.8% |
| Compania Nationala DE Administrare A Infrastructurii Rutiere S.a. | 8 | 5.7% |
| Compania Nationala De Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere S.a. | 4 | 2.8% |
| Judetul Vrancea(consiliul Judetean) | 4 | 2.8% |
| Administrația Națională „Apele Române” — Administrația Bazinală de Apă Mureș | 3 | 2.1% |
| APA Tarnavei Mari SA | 2 | 1.4% |
What are road & infrastructure contracts worth in Romania?
97 of the 141 records publish a contract value. The median is $976,071 and the largest single published value is $56.9M. By size, 4 under $100k, 45 between $100k and $1M, 33 between $1M and $10M, 15 above $10M. The remaining 44 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 | 4 | 4.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 45 | 46% |
| between $1M and $10M | 33 | 34% |
| above $10M | 15 | 15% |
How long do bidders get to respond to road & infrastructure tenders in Romania?
Across the 66 Romania road & infrastructure notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 days. A quarter of them allowed 22 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 38. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 7 (11%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are road & infrastructure tenders published in Romania?
Romania publishes about 6 notices a month in this category, 66 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 69, spread across 45 separate months of activity since 28 June 2016. September is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 9 September 2026.
How does Romania compare with other road & infrastructure markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable road & infrastructure market, Romania ranks 19th by number of records. The largest is Australia (4,306 records against 141 here). Within Romania itself, road & infrastructure is the 38th largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Romania road & infrastructure records on this page come from?
These 141 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (141). 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.
Open Road & Infrastructure tenders in Romania
Showing 10 of the 25 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Romania market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
Romania – Pipeline-inspection services – Servicii de inspecție interioară a conductelor godevilabile
Romania – Highway maintenance work – „Acord - cadru pentru lucrări de întreținere curentă pe timp de vară - estetică rutieră și scurgerea apelor - D.R.D.P. Timișoara, perioada anul I - anul IV - Lot 1 S.D.N. Arad, Lot 2 S.D.N. Caransebeș, Lot 3 S.D.N. Deva, Lot 4 S.D.N. Timișoara, Lot 5 Autostrada A1 Cunța-Ilia, Lot 6 Autostrada A1 Ilia-Remetea, Lot 7 Autostrada A1 Remetea Mare-Nădlac”
Romania – Highway maintenance work – Acord-cadru pentru lucrări de întreținere curentă pe timp de vară - parte carosabilă, acostamente, benzi de urgență și benzi de încadrare – D.R.D.P. TIMIȘOARA – Secția Întreținere Autostrăzi – Cunța - Ilia - ANUL I - II
Romania – Highway maintenance work – „Acordul-cadru de lucrări având ca obiect executarea lucrărilor de întreținere curentă: Întreținere poduri, pasaje, podețe, tuneluri, ziduri de sprijin și prevenirea efectelor inundațiilor pe o perioadă de 4 ani D.R.D.P. TIMIȘOARA - Lot 1 – 7”
Romania – Pipeline relaying works – Execuţia lucrărilor de înlocuiri conducte şi racorduri şi realizări de noi distribuţii de gaze naturale pentru Delgaz Grid S.A. 4 loturi
Romania – Network infrastructure – Achiziția de produse privind repararea sau înlocuirea rețelelor structurate de date și realizarea de rețele unitare Wi-Fi la nivelul Camerelor de Conturi a României
Romania – Highway maintenance work – Lucrări și servicii privind întreținerea periodică a drumurilor publice – Covoare bituminoase MAS 16 cu frezare 4 cm – An I – An IV pe autostrăzile și drumurile naționale din administrarea D.R.D.P. Cluj, Acord - cadru 4 ani
Romania – Public road transport services – Delegare a gestiunii serviciului public județean de transport de persoane prin curse regulate, în aria teritorială de competență a județului Vrancea, pentru perioada 2023 - 2029
Romania – Public road transport services – Delegare a gestiunii serviciului public județean de transport de persoane prin curse regulate, în aria teritorială de competență a județului Vrancea, pentru perioada 2023 - 2029
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