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 Sweden?
GlobalGov holds 367 security services records from 194 distinct buying organisations in Sweden. The most frequent publishers are Telge Inköp AB (11 records); Arbetsförmedlingen (8 records); Polismyndigheten (7 records); Adda Inköpscentral AB (6 records); Helsingborgs stad (6 records); Kristianstads kommun (6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Telge Inköp AB | 11 | 3.0% |
| Arbetsförmedlingen | 8 | 2.2% |
| Polismyndigheten | 7 | 1.9% |
| Adda Inköpscentral AB | 6 | 1.6% |
| Helsingborgs stad | 6 | 1.6% |
| Kristianstads kommun | 6 | 1.6% |
What are security services contracts worth in Sweden?
193 of the 367 records publish a contract value. The median is $960,000 and the largest single published value is $134.4M. By size, 1 under $100k, 101 between $100k and $1M, 73 between $1M and $10M, 18 above $10M. The remaining 174 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 | 0.5% |
| between $100k and $1M | 101 | 52% |
| between $1M and $10M | 73 | 38% |
| above $10M | 18 | 9.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to security services tenders in Sweden?
Across the 68 Sweden security services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 41. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are security services tenders published in Sweden?
Sweden publishes about 5 notices a month in this category, 55 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 53 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 149, spread across 67 separate months of activity since 19 January 2018. 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 security services markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable security services market, Sweden ranks 5th by number of records. The largest is Netherlands (1,431 records against 367 here). Within Sweden itself, security services is the 35th largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Sweden security services records on this page come from?
These 367 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (367). 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 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 security services notice in Sweden is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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