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 Romania?
GlobalGov holds 38 security services records from 28 distinct buying organisations in Romania. The most frequent publishers are Compania Nationala De Transport Al Energiei Electrice "Transelectrica" S.a. (3 records); Administratia Serviciului Public De Salubrizare Sector 6 (2 records); Consiliul National de Solutionare a Contestatiilor (2 records); Ministerul Transporturilor și Infrastructurii (2 records); RNP Romsilva- APNR R.A. (2 records); Societatea Electrocentrale Craiova SA (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 34% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Compania Nationala De Transport Al Energiei Electrice "Transelectrica" S.a. | 3 | 7.9% |
| Administratia Serviciului Public De Salubrizare Sector 6 | 2 | 5.3% |
| Consiliul National de Solutionare a Contestatiilor | 2 | 5.3% |
| Ministerul Transporturilor și Infrastructurii | 2 | 5.3% |
| RNP Romsilva- APNR R.A. | 2 | 5.3% |
| Societatea Electrocentrale Craiova SA | 2 | 5.3% |
What are security services contracts worth in Romania?
28 of the 38 records publish a contract value. The median is $792,213 and the largest single published value is $54.1M. By size, 1 under $100k, 15 between $100k and $1M, 9 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 10 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 | 3.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 15 | 54% |
| between $1M and $10M | 9 | 32% |
| above $10M | 3 | 11% |
How long do bidders get to respond to security services tenders in Romania?
Across the 26 Romania security services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 37. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (3.8%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are security services tenders published in Romania?
Romania published 20 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 29, spread across 21 separate months of activity since 23 November 2021. February 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 Romania compare with other security services markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable security services market, Romania ranks 23rd by number of records. The largest is Netherlands (1,431 records against 38 here). Within Romania itself, security services is the 57th largest of the 61 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Romania security services records on this page come from?
These 38 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (38). 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 Romania
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 Romania is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Romania – Guard services – Servicii de pază, dispecerizare, intervenție rapidă și mentenanță sisteme de securitate
Romania – Endangered species protection services – Servicii de implementare solutii tehnice privind menținerea şi îmbunătățirea stării de conservare a speciei Cottus gobio și popularea habitatelor specifice in cadrul proiectului: Implementarea de măsuri de conservare pentru speciile și habitatele din Parcul Național Retezat și siturile Natura 2000 suprapuse, cod SMIS 333099
Romania – Guard services – Servicii de paza a obiectivelor DS-VN
Romania – Staff development services – Achiziție de servicii de perfecționare personal de specialitate din cadrul Laboratoarelor de Igiena Radiațiilor Ionizante din Direcțiile de Sănătate Publică şi Centrele Regionale de Sănătate Publică, în cadrul proiectului ”Dezvoltarea unui laborator național pentru îmbunătățirea monitorizării substanțelor deversate în ape și a calității apei potabile-etapa II”, cod SMIS PDD322548
Romania – Supply services of personnel including temporary staff – SERVICII de asigurare personal calificat pentru completarea echipelor de lucru mentenanta si exploatare instalatii energetice din SE Craiova SA, Cod CPV 79620000-6
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