The assets around a road, and why they are often a separate contract
Road infrastructure as a procurement heading usually means the assets that make a carriageway work rather than the carriageway itself: drainage, retaining structures, barriers and restraint systems, signs and gantries, lighting columns, road markings, traffic signals and the ducting and detection that serve them. These are let separately from surfacing contracts because they are different trades with different certifications, and because their renewal cycles do not coincide with the pavement's.
Products in this category are type-approved rather than described. Vehicle restraint systems are specified by tested containment level and working width; signs by retroreflective class and by the standard governing their design; markings by retroreflectivity and skid resistance measured after laying; lighting by photometric performance against a lighting class. Bidders supply certificates against the specific product and installation configuration, and installers frequently need their own sector accreditation for work such as signal installation or lighting electrical work.
Working on a live road is the cost driver that separates competent bids from cheap ones. Lane closures are permitted in defined windows, often at night, under an approved traffic management plan with its own design, equipment and trained operatives; occupancy of the road is frequently charged or penalised by duration, so the programme is priced in hours rather than days. Bidders are normally required to hold sector qualifications for working on the network, and the buyer's permit regime -- who books the closure, how far ahead, and what happens if it overruns -- is usually a better guide to the real cost than the bill of quantities.
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 road & infrastructure in Slovenia?
GlobalGov holds 68 road & infrastructure records from 49 distinct buying organisations in Slovenia. The most frequent publishers are Družba za avtoceste v Republiki Sloveniji d.d. (4 records); International buyer (3 records); Občina Postojna (3 records); Državna Revizijska Komisija Za Revizijo Postopkov Odddaje Javnih Naročil (2 records); Osnovna ŠOla Venclja Perka (2 records); Občina Ivančna Gorica (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 24% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Družba za avtoceste v Republiki Sloveniji d.d. | 4 | 5.9% |
| International buyer | 3 | 4.4% |
| Občina Postojna | 3 | 4.4% |
| Državna Revizijska Komisija Za Revizijo Postopkov Odddaje Javnih Naročil | 2 | 2.9% |
| Osnovna ŠOla Venclja Perka | 2 | 2.9% |
| Občina Ivančna Gorica | 2 | 2.9% |
What are road & infrastructure contracts worth in Slovenia?
17 of the 68 records publish a contract value. The median is $522,439 and the largest single published value is $3.8M. By size, 1 under $100k, 12 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $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 | 1 | 5.9% |
| between $100k and $1M | 12 | 71% |
| between $1M and $10M | 4 | 24% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to road & infrastructure tenders in Slovenia?
Across the 20 Slovenia road & infrastructure notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 21 days. A quarter of them allowed 15 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 32. 4 of them (20%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are road & infrastructure tenders published in Slovenia?
Slovenia publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 29 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 31, spread across 33 separate months of activity since 25 June 2016. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Slovenia compare with other road & infrastructure markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable road & infrastructure market, Slovenia ranks 25th by number of records. The largest is Australia (4,306 records against 68 here). Within Slovenia itself, road & infrastructure is the 21st largest of the 28 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Slovenia road & infrastructure records on this page come from?
These 68 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (68). 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 Road & Infrastructure tenders in Slovenia
Showing 9 of the 10 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Slovenia 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.
Slovenia – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – Izvajanje prevozov osnovnošolskih otrok v Občini Ivančna Gorica 2026/2027 - SKLOP 5: TEMENICA
Slovenia – Road transport services – Izvajanje prevozov osnovnošolskih otrok v Občini Postojna za obdobje 2026 do 2030
Slovenia – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – Izvajanje prevozov osnovnošolskih otrok v Občini Ivančna Gorica 2026/2027 - SKLOP 4: HRASTOV DOL – PODBORŠT
Slovenia – Road transport services – IZVAJANJE STORITEV PREVOZA UPORABNIKOV CUDV DRAGA – VDC v obdobju od 1. 9. 2026 do 31. 8. 2027
Slovenia – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – Izbira izvajalca za opravljanje prevozov otrok v OŠ Šenčur za obdobje štirih let
Slovenia – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – IZVAJANJE ŠOLSKIH PREVOZOV NA OBMOČJU OBČINE ORMOŽ ZA ŠOLSKO LETO 2026/2027
Slovenia – Road transport services – Izvajanje občasnih avtobusnih prevozov šolskih otrok za obdobje štirih let
Slovenia – Special-purpose road passenger-transport services – Izvajanje storitev posebnih linijskih prevozov šoloobveznih otrok na območju občine Idrija
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