Networks, treatment and the health obligations underneath the engineering
Sewerage work covers collection networks, pumping, treatment and the disposal or reuse of what comes out, and the discharge consent governs all of it. A treatment works is designed to meet numerical limits on the quality of the effluent it releases, measured and enforced by a regulator, so process guarantees are contractual and performance testing over a defined period is a condition of acceptance. A plant that is built to the drawing and cannot hold consent has not been delivered.
Network work is street work, with the constraints that implies: permits from the highway authority, traffic management, reinstatement to a specified standard with a guarantee period, and out-of-hours working where the road cannot be closed in the day. Rehabilitation techniques that avoid excavation -- lining, patching, pipe bursting -- are frequently specified because they shorten road occupation, and they require different plant and different accreditation from open-cut laying. Working in confined spaces and in sewers brings its own authorisation, gas monitoring and rescue provision.
Sanitation programmes in settings without a piped network are a distinct market with distinct evaluation. Latrine and septic construction, faecal sludge collection and treatment, and public or school facilities are judged as much on operation, maintenance arrangements and community acceptance as on construction quality, because facilities built without an emptying service and a maintenance owner fall out of use quickly. Safeguarding of workers handling waste, and separate accessible facilities for women and for people with disabilities, are specified requirements rather than design preferences.
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 sanitation sewerage in Romania?
GlobalGov holds 101 sanitation sewerage records from 23 distinct buying organisations in Romania. The most frequent publishers are S.C. Aquacaras S.A. (19 records); HIDRO Prahova S.A. (18 records); Apavital SA Iasi (13 records); Apavil SA (12 records); Compania De Apa Oradea S.a. (8 records); APA Canal SIBIU SA (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 75% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| S.C. Aquacaras S.A. | 19 | 19% |
| HIDRO Prahova S.A. | 18 | 18% |
| Apavital SA Iasi | 13 | 13% |
| Apavil SA | 12 | 12% |
| Compania De Apa Oradea S.a. | 8 | 7.9% |
| APA Canal SIBIU SA | 6 | 5.9% |
What are sanitation sewerage contracts worth in Romania?
88 of the 101 records publish a contract value. The median is $9.0M and the largest single published value is $65.7M. By size, 1 under $100k, 5 between $100k and $1M, 44 between $1M and $10M, 38 above $10M. The remaining 13 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 | 1 | 1.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 5 | 5.7% |
| between $1M and $10M | 44 | 50% |
| above $10M | 38 | 43% |
How long do bidders get to respond to sanitation sewerage tenders in Romania?
Across the 18 Romania sanitation sewerage notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 42 days. A quarter of them allowed 38 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 48. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are sanitation sewerage tenders published in Romania?
Romania published 9 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 27, spread across 34 separate months of activity since 20 July 2018. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 30 March 2026, 185 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Romania compare with other sanitation sewerage markets?
Among the 18 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable sanitation sewerage market, Romania ranks 7th by number of records. The largest is France (505 records against 101 here). Within Romania itself, sanitation sewerage is the 43rd largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Romania sanitation sewerage records on this page come from?
These 101 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (99), the Romania national tender archive (2). 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 Sanitation Sewerage tenders in Romania
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 101 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Romania
Sanitation Sewerage procurement in other markets
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