Index-linked pricing and the mechanics of a bulk fuel contract
Nobody bids a fixed price for fuel over a contract term, and a buyer who asks for one is inviting a risk premium rather than a price. These contracts are priced as a differential: a published market reference price for the product, plus or minus a bidder's margin covering supply, transport and service. Evaluation compares those differentials, not pump prices, and the tender specifies which published index is used, on what day it is read and how often it resets. A bidder who does not understand the index is not able to price the margin.
The specification is a product standard plus a delivery regime. Fuel is bought to a recognised national or international specification with seasonal grades where climate requires them, biofuel content stated, and certificates of quality accompanying each delivery. The service terms then decide who can compete: tank sizes and access at each site, minimum and maximum drop quantities, ordering lead time, out-of-hours and emergency delivery, and telemetry or automatic replenishment where the buyer has it. Sites that a large tanker cannot reach quietly exclude most bidders.
The obligations that sit around the fuel are where liability concentrates. Storage tanks, bunding, overfill protection and spill response are regulated, and the delivery driver's compliance with filling procedure is the buyer's environmental exposure as much as the supplier's. Metering accuracy and reconciliation between delivered and invoiced volumes are contractual, and stock loss is a recognised dispute. Where duty relief or a rebated grade applies to particular uses, eligibility and record-keeping transfer obligations to both parties that are worth confirming before the first delivery rather than at audit.
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 fuel supply in Slovenia?
GlobalGov holds 267 fuel supply records from 156 distinct buying organisations in Slovenia. The most frequent publishers are Javni holding Maribor, družba za izvajanje strokovnih in razvojnih nalog na področju gospodarskih javnih služb d.o.o. (6 records); Skupnost Socialnih Zavodov Slovenije (6 records); Fraport Slovenija, upravljanje letališč, d.o.o. (5 records); Zavod Za Usposabljanje, Delo in Varstvo Dr. Marijana Borštnarja Dornava (5 records); DRI upravljanje investicij, Družba za razvoj infrastrukture, d.o.o. (4 records); JAVNO PODJETJE - AZIENDA PUBLICA RIŽANSKI VODOVOD KOPER d.o.o. - s.r.l. (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 11% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Javni holding Maribor, družba za izvajanje strokovnih in razvojnih nalog na področju gospodarskih javnih služb d.o.o. | 6 | 2.2% |
| Skupnost Socialnih Zavodov Slovenije | 6 | 2.2% |
| Fraport Slovenija, upravljanje letališč, d.o.o. | 5 | 1.9% |
| Zavod Za Usposabljanje, Delo in Varstvo Dr. Marijana Borštnarja Dornava | 5 | 1.9% |
| DRI upravljanje investicij, Družba za razvoj infrastrukture, d.o.o. | 4 | 1.5% |
| JAVNO PODJETJE - AZIENDA PUBLICA RIŽANSKI VODOVOD KOPER d.o.o. - s.r.l. | 4 | 1.5% |
What are fuel supply contracts worth in Slovenia?
46 of the 267 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.3M and the largest single published value is $29.0M. By size, 1 under $100k, 17 between $100k and $1M, 26 between $1M and $10M, 2 above $10M. The remaining 221 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 | 2.2% |
| between $100k and $1M | 17 | 37% |
| between $1M and $10M | 26 | 57% |
| above $10M | 2 | 4.3% |
How long do bidders get to respond to fuel supply tenders in Slovenia?
Across the 26 Slovenia fuel supply notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 32 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 38. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (12%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are fuel supply tenders published in Slovenia?
Slovenia publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 31 in the last twelve months. That is 11% fewer than the 35 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 116, spread across 87 separate months of activity since 14 December 2007. October 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 fuel supply markets?
Among the 34 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable fuel supply market, Slovenia ranks 17th by number of records. The largest is United States (7,899 records against 267 here). Within Slovenia itself, fuel supply is the 10th largest of the 28 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Slovenia fuel supply records on this page come from?
These 267 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (226), the Slovenia national tender archive (41). 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 Fuel Supply tenders in Slovenia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 267 records GlobalGov holds for it.
Other procurement categories in Slovenia
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