Sustainment, spares and the contracts that keep equipment available
Defence logistics is bought as sustained availability rather than as a series of deliveries. The dominant contract shapes are long-term support arrangements in which a supplier is paid for an equipment fleet being ready to use -- measured as availability, sortie rates or vehicles fit for task -- and is left to decide how much spares stock, repair capacity and preventive work that requires. The bidder's commercial risk moves from supplying parts to predicting failures, which is why reliability data and its ownership are negotiated early.
The supply chain itself is a specified deliverable. Requirements typically cover codification and unique identification of every item, packaging and preservation standards for long storage or harsh transit, shelf-life management, and configuration control so that a part fitted matches the approved build standard of the platform. Counterfeit parts avoidance and traceability to an approved manufacturing source are explicit obligations, not assurances, and an inability to evidence provenance is a disqualifying finding rather than a corrective action.
Access to the competition is controlled before capability is assessed. Security clearance for personnel and facilities, national security exemptions that restrict participation to particular suppliers, export control and end-use licensing, and offset or industrial participation obligations all determine who may bid. Deployed support adds its own requirements: contractors operating alongside deployed forces need defined status, insurance and medical arrangements, and the contract has to say what happens when the operation moves or the theatre closes.
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 military logistics in Sweden?
GlobalGov holds 132 military logistics records from 35 distinct buying organisations in Sweden. The most frequent publishers are FMV (39 records); Polismyndigheten (35 records); Karlstads Kommun (3 records); Ale kommun (2 records); Försvarsmakten (2 records); Försvarsmakten (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 63% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| FMV | 39 | 30% |
| Polismyndigheten | 35 | 27% |
| Karlstads Kommun | 3 | 2.3% |
| Ale kommun | 2 | 1.5% |
| Försvarsmakten | 2 | 1.5% |
| Försvarsmakten | 2 | 1.5% |
What are military logistics contracts worth in Sweden?
81 of the 132 records publish a contract value. The median is $960,000 and the largest single published value is $306.2M. By size, 2 under $100k, 40 between $100k and $1M, 27 between $1M and $10M, 12 above $10M. The remaining 51 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 | 2 | 2.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 40 | 49% |
| between $1M and $10M | 27 | 33% |
| above $10M | 12 | 15% |
How long do bidders get to respond to military logistics tenders in Sweden?
Across the 38 Sweden military logistics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 36 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 51. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are military logistics tenders published in Sweden?
Sweden published 13 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 55% fewer than the 29 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 69, spread across 47 separate months of activity since 31 May 2021. May 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 Sweden compare with other military logistics markets?
Among the 30 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable military logistics market, Sweden ranks 13th by number of records. The largest is Germany (723 records against 132 here). Within Sweden itself, military logistics is the 52nd largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Sweden military logistics records on this page come from?
These 132 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (132). 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 Military Logistics tenders in Sweden
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 military logistics notice in Sweden is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Sweden – Ammunition – Ammunition 300 blackout Supersonic expanding
Sweden – Military helmets – Ballistic helmets - High cut
Sweden – Police uniforms – Procurement of crowd control uniform
Sweden – Command, control, communication and computer systems – Elevregister
Sweden – Radar – Weapon Locating Systems
Sweden – Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment – Framework Agreement - Forward Observer System
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