The Aperlena Verdict
Narrow fieldА1 България ЕАД leads with 50% of the last 4 comparable contracts, but 2 different suppliers have won here in 5 years. Worth a serious look.
Based on 4 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryVarna Municipality is procuring electronic communications services through a public mobile cellular network under the GSM/UMTS standard with national coverage. The contract covers mobile telephony and mobile internet provided on SIM cards for the municipality and its budget-funded units. It also includes building connectivity supporting a dedicated APN between Data SIM cards and the servers operating the Automated Ticketing System and the control and management system for mass urban public transport. In addition, the supplier must provide connectivity for ticket sales and card top-up machines for public transport and for the national card payment system, in line with the technical specification.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Икономически най-изгодната оферта се определя въз основа критерия за възлагане „най-ниска цена“, съгласно чл. 70, ал. 2, т. 1 от ЗОП
- Tenders go to
- app.eop.bg/today/606525
As the official notice states them.
Bid or no-bid?
Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.
Can I bid?
- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in Bulgarian.
- Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis
Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 4 days ago
Expected award price
- likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €767,000
- €736,320 to €767,000
Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 100% of their published estimate, half of them between 96% and 100%, based on 23 awards of the last 3 years.
Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.
What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 84 awards for Postal & telecommunications services in Bulgaria.
- This notice
- €767,000
- Median award
- €99,702
- Middle half of past awards
- €37,708 to €288,241
The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileОБЩИНА ВАРНА
- notices in the register
- 674
- awards
- 295
- awarded in total
- €242.3M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 148
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 9%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 100%
Based on 234 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 2.7
- of those lots received a single tender
- 26%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 2%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| БЪЛГАРСКИ ПОЩИ ЕАД | 2 | €562,421 | Sep 2026 |
| А1 България ЕАД | 2 | Jun 2026 |
Based on 4 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
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Market context
Larger than 53% of the open notices in Postal & telecommunications services across Europe.
- open now in Postal & telecommunications services
- 696
- median open notice
- €655,000
Who wins in this market
ConcentratedBulgaria · Postal & telecommunications services
- different companies won awards here
- 16
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 84%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 75
Based on 126 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 1.4
- of those lots received a single tender
- 61%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 1%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 2%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
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Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
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