How food commodities and nutrition programmes are contracted
Food procurement for public and humanitarian programmes is a commodity trade wrapped in a quality regime. The specification fixes the product in technical terms -- moisture content, broken grain or defect tolerances, protein or fat content, milling standards, and for fortified commodities the micronutrient premix and its dosage. Packaging is specified as tightly as the food: bag weight and material, marking, stacking strength and pallet configuration all appear in the tender, because a sack that fails in a warehouse loses the commodity it contains.
The commercial terms are shipping terms. Bids are almost always invited against defined delivery terms that decide who carries freight, insurance, port charges and inland transport, and a price that looks competitive under one term can be uncompetitive under another. Inspection by an independent surveyor at loading, certificates of analysis, phytosanitary and fumigation certificates, and a minimum remaining shelf life on arrival are conditions of payment rather than paperwork. Because commodity prices move, contracts frequently carry a validity window measured in days and price adjustment against a published index.
Nutrition programmes add a layer that pure commodity supply does not have. Therapeutic and supplementary foods are bought against product standards and supplier qualification schemes rather than open specification, and the list of qualified producers is short. Local and regional purchase policies, which favour buying near the point of need to support local markets and shorten lead times, increasingly override pure price comparison. Bidders should expect their production capacity, traceability and recall procedures to be audited, not merely declared.
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 food aid and nutrition in Slovenia?
GlobalGov holds 734 food aid and nutrition records from 410 distinct buying organisations in Slovenia. The most frequent publishers are Zavod Republike Slovenije Za Blagovne Rezerve (14 records); Ministrstvo Za Notranje Zadeve (12 records); Ministrstvo Za Obrambo (11 records); Republika Slovenija, Ministrstvo Za Delo, Družino, Socialne Zadeve in Enake Možnosti (9 records); Javni gospodarski zavod Protokolarne storitve Republike Slovenije (5 records); NUKLEARNA ELEKTRARNA KRŠKO d.o.o. (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 7.6% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zavod Republike Slovenije Za Blagovne Rezerve | 14 | 1.9% |
| Ministrstvo Za Notranje Zadeve | 12 | 1.6% |
| Ministrstvo Za Obrambo | 11 | 1.5% |
| Republika Slovenija, Ministrstvo Za Delo, Družino, Socialne Zadeve in Enake Možnosti | 9 | 1.2% |
| Javni gospodarski zavod Protokolarne storitve Republike Slovenije | 5 | 0.7% |
| NUKLEARNA ELEKTRARNA KRŠKO d.o.o. | 5 | 0.7% |
What are food aid and nutrition contracts worth in Slovenia?
74 of the 734 records publish a contract value. The median is $592,672 and the largest single published value is $13.6M. By size, 5 under $100k, 42 between $100k and $1M, 26 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 660 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 | 5 | 6.8% |
| between $100k and $1M | 42 | 57% |
| between $1M and $10M | 26 | 35% |
| above $10M | 1 | 1.4% |
How long do bidders get to respond to food aid and nutrition tenders in Slovenia?
Across the 25 Slovenia food aid and nutrition notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 22 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 34. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (12%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are food aid and nutrition tenders published in Slovenia?
Slovenia publishes about 11 notices a month in this category, 133 in the last twelve months. That is 80% more than the 74 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 371, spread across 67 separate months of activity since 10 November 2008. 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 Slovenia compare with other food aid and nutrition markets?
Among the 39 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable food aid and nutrition market, Slovenia ranks 9th by number of records. The largest is France (4,020 records against 734 here). Within Slovenia itself, food aid and nutrition is the 3rd largest of the 28 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Slovenia food aid and nutrition records on this page come from?
These 734 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (727), the Slovenia national tender archive (7). 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 Food Aid and Nutrition tenders in Slovenia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 734 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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