How collection, treatment and disposal contracts are structured
Waste is bought as a long-term service because the assets behind it are long-term. Collection contracts run for years, sometimes with an extension mechanism, because a bidder is expected to buy a fleet, take on a depot and employ a workforce to serve them, and none of that is recoverable over a short term. Treatment and disposal capacity runs longer still, and is frequently let as a concession in which the supplier finances the facility and recovers the cost through a gate fee over its operating life. The two are often let separately, and a bidder for one needs to understand the terms of the other.
Pricing follows the unit that the buyer can count. Household collection is usually priced per property per year, with separate rates for each material stream and for bulky and clinical collections; treatment is priced per tonne against a weighbridge ticket. Because revenue from recovered materials moves with commodity markets, contracts frequently share that risk through an income-sharing mechanism rather than leaving it wholly with either party, and bidders who assume a favourable materials price for the life of the contract are pricing a market view rather than a service.
Regulatory and workforce obligations are the qualification gate. Carriers, brokers and sites must hold the permits and registrations the jurisdiction requires, and the buyer remains legally responsible for the waste it produces, so duty of care documentation and an auditable trail from collection to final disposal are contractual deliverables. Where an incumbent workforce exists, employment protection rules commonly transfer those staff with their terms intact, which means the labour cost in a bid is substantially fixed before the bidder writes it and the liability information provided at tender is worth reading closely.
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 waste management in Slovenia?
GlobalGov holds 480 waste management records from 185 distinct buying organisations in Slovenia. The most frequent publishers are Ministrstvo Za Naravne Vire in Prostor (17 records); Ministrstvo Za Obrambo (13 records); NUKLEARNA ELEKTRARNA KRŠKO d.o.o. (12 records); Ministrstvo Za Notranje Zadeve (11 records); Družba Za Avtoceste V Republiki Sloveniji D.d. (9 records); Javni holding Maribor, družba za izvajanje strokovnih in razvojnih nalog na področju gospodarskih javnih služb d.o.o. (9 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 15% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ministrstvo Za Naravne Vire in Prostor | 17 | 3.5% |
| Ministrstvo Za Obrambo | 13 | 2.7% |
| NUKLEARNA ELEKTRARNA KRŠKO d.o.o. | 12 | 2.5% |
| Ministrstvo Za Notranje Zadeve | 11 | 2.3% |
| Družba Za Avtoceste V Republiki Sloveniji D.d. | 9 | 1.9% |
| Javni holding Maribor, družba za izvajanje strokovnih in razvojnih nalog na področju gospodarskih javnih služb d.o.o. | 9 | 1.9% |
What are waste management contracts worth in Slovenia?
86 of the 480 records publish a contract value. The median is $544,725 and the largest single published value is $42.1M. By size, 2 under $100k, 52 between $100k and $1M, 28 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 394 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 | 2.3% |
| between $100k and $1M | 52 | 60% |
| between $1M and $10M | 28 | 33% |
| above $10M | 4 | 4.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to waste management tenders in Slovenia?
Across the 5 Slovenia waste management notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 27 days. A quarter of them allowed 25 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 31. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are waste management tenders published in Slovenia?
Slovenia publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 92 in the last twelve months. That is 14% more than the 81 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 267, spread across 59 separate months of activity since 22 March 2013. 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 waste management markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable waste management market, Slovenia ranks 20th by number of records. The largest is France (12,281 records against 480 here). Within Slovenia itself, waste management is the 6th largest of the 28 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Slovenia waste management records on this page come from?
These 480 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (476), the Slovenia national tender archive (4). 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 Waste Management tenders in Slovenia
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 480 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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