Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job
Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.
The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.
Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.
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 maintenance & repair in Sweden?
GlobalGov holds 1,111 maintenance & repair records from 440 distinct buying organisations in Sweden. The most frequent publishers are Trafikverket Myndighet (27 records); Akademiska Hus Aktiebolag (24 records); Förvaltningsrätten (21 records); Upphandlingscenter Falun Borlänge-regionen (21 records); Västra Götalandsregionen (19 records); Luleå Kommun (18 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 12% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Trafikverket Myndighet | 27 | 2.4% |
| Akademiska Hus Aktiebolag | 24 | 2.2% |
| Förvaltningsrätten | 21 | 1.9% |
| Upphandlingscenter Falun Borlänge-regionen | 21 | 1.9% |
| Västra Götalandsregionen | 19 | 1.7% |
| Luleå Kommun | 18 | 1.6% |
What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in Sweden?
922 of the 1,111 records publish a contract value. The median is $960,000 and the largest single published value is $297.0M. By size, 8 under $100k, 476 between $100k and $1M, 366 between $1M and $10M, 72 above $10M. The remaining 189 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 | 8 | 0.9% |
| between $100k and $1M | 476 | 52% |
| between $1M and $10M | 366 | 40% |
| above $10M | 72 | 7.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in Sweden?
Across the 884 Sweden maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 31 days. A quarter of them allowed 29 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 34. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 71 (8.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in Sweden?
Sweden publishes about 34 notices a month in this category, 405 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 436 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 947, spread across 83 separate months of activity since 17 June 2016. October is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 15 September 2026.
How does Sweden compare with other maintenance & repair markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, Sweden ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 1,111 here). Within Sweden itself, maintenance & repair is the 10th largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Sweden maintenance & repair records on this page come from?
These 1,111 records are collected from 2 official sources: the Sweden TED feed (878), TED (233). 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 Maintenance & Repair tenders in Sweden
Showing 8 of the 8 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Sweden 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.
Sweden – Repair and maintenance services of audio-visual and optical equipment – Support IP-TV
Sweden – Repair and maintenance services of machinery – Renovation of force standard machine
Sweden – Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment – Blästrings- och målningsarbeten, riktning, svets och plåtarbeten inklusive tvätt av produkter i stål och plåt, ex, containrar, elverk, lastflak mm,..
Sweden – Grounds maintenance services – Servicearbeten och mindre entreprenader - Mark
Sweden – Grounds maintenance services – Snöröjning och halkbekämpning samt mark och trädgårdsskötsel
Sweden – Repair and maintenance services – Ramavtal för mindre broreparationer
Sweden – Repair and maintenance services – Servicearbeten och mindre entreprenader - Glasmästeri
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