Swedish €61.6m IT infrastructure framework opens

Inköps- och upphandlingsförvaltningen has opened a Swedish IT infrastructure framework with a €61.6m ceiling and an 11 October deadline. It is a framework ceiling for future purchases rather than a single contract, making route-to-market and lot positioning more important than treating the figure as committed spend.

Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail is also seeking a GSM-R call monitoring solution worth €3m, with bids due on 6 October. The same window includes a German CheckMK licensing and services framework, giving monitoring suppliers a named product route into an open call.

Where this market is going

Networking accounted for 11.73% of all classified notices in the 14-day window, a fall of 0.41 percentage points against the 12.15% baseline measured from 14 June across 84 days. The current window contains 189 notices, but the share comparison is limited to notices classified by the same classifier generation.

The weekly share moved from 10.63% in the week to 4 July to 12.8% on 11 July, 10.73% on 18 July, 13.05% on 25 July, 13.65% on 1 August, 13.38% on 8 August and 15.19% on 15 August. It then fell to 12.31% on 22 August and 11.42% on 29 August, before reaching 11.79% on 5 September, 13.21% on 12 September and 10.24% on 19 September.

How hard the competition is

Competitive networking awards averaged 2 bids across 69 measured procedures. Poland averaged 1.8 bids across 24 measured awards and Ukraine also averaged 1.8 across 22; Czechia averaged 2.5 across 6. Single-bid awards represented 42% of the measured set, or 29 awards, while 8 direct awards are counted separately because they were not competed. SMEs submitted 75% of bids.

Czechia is the relatively more crowded measured market, where technical quality and differentiation should decide the bid. Poland and Ukraine are thinner markets, where qualification and delivery capacity are more likely to constrain the field. No bid average should be inferred for countries without a reported average.

Bids are counted on contract awards from competitive procedures only. Direct awards (negotiated without a call, single-source) have one bidder by design and are counted separately. Shown only when at least 10 awards reported a bid count. Direct awards this window: 8.

What shifted this week

Whose technology is being named

Cisco was named in 19 notices across 12 countries, including 11 calls and 8 awards, 31% more often than the vertical’s usual mix would predict. MikroTik appeared in 4 notices, 33% less often than predicted; Ubiquiti also appeared in 4, 3% less often; and TP-Link appeared in 3, 14% more often.

F5, Fortinet, HPE, Juniper Networks and Starlink each appeared in 2 notices. Fortinet was 39% below its expected mix, HPE 55% below and Starlink 57% below; no comparison is available for F5 or Juniper Networks. CheckMK appeared in 1 call, Südwestrundfunk Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts’ framework for CheckMK licences and related services. Komenda Główna Policji also returned as a repeat buyer with 2 Polish calls, including fibre-optic infrastructure modernisation.

Who is buying repeatedly

Buyers that published more than one call for tender in this window. An organisation running several at once is usually working through a programme rather than buying once.

The biggest new open tenders

The largest new open calls are led by Inköps- och upphandlingsförvaltningen’s €61.6m IT infrastructure framework, closing 11 October. Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail’s €3m GSM-R call monitoring solution closes 6 October; Südwestrundfunk Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts’ €2.28m CheckMK licences and services framework closes 22 October; Serviço de Utilização Comum dos Hospitais is buying network infrastructure modernisation and security for €1.5m by 23 October; Gemeinde Attenweiler’s €1,158,915 Gigabit network operation call closes 12 October; and Ystad Kommun’s €968,000 network and security products call closes 19 October. These values come from 37 of the 95 calls that stated a value; the Swedish and Südwestrundfunk figures are framework ceilings, not purchase values.

Calls for tender published in this window and still open, by the buyer’s estimated value in EUR; 37 of 95 new calls stated one. A framework agreement states a ceiling for several purchases, not one contract.

Contracts awarded

Signed contracts included Telia Sverige AB’s €3,072,683 win from Arvika kommun for cloud switchboard and operator services; ORANGE (MANDATAIRE)’s €1,927,209 WAN infrastructure award from Métropole Aix Marseille Provence; IDW - CONSULTORIA EM SERVIÇOS DE INFORMAÇÃO, LDA’s €1,029,384 network administration and communications contract from Instituto de Informática, I.P.; Aricoma Systems a.s.’s €883,400 automated network and application monitoring system for Nemocnice Pardubického kraje, a.s.; B.I.N.S.S. Datennetze und Software GmbH Erfurt’s €758,000 LAN/WLAN and Aruba ClearPass expansion for Landratsamt Saale-Holzland-Kreis; and Betacom S.A.’s €755,398 server-network equipment and implementation contract from Generalna Dyrekcja Ochrony Środowiska. None is marked as a direct award. In the supplier count, ha-vel internet s.r.o. recorded 4 awards worth €14,496, all direct awards; Sieciowe Systemy Informatyczne Andrzej Kowalczyk had 2 worth €116,526; ФОП "Ковальков Роман Михайлович" had 2 worth €573; D.E.I. had 1 worth €7,892,267; RubyNet Oy had 1 worth €18,193; and ТОВАРИСТВО З ОБМЕЖЕНОЮ ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЮ "АЙТІ-РІШЕННЯ" had 1 worth €308,937.

Contract award notices published in this window, by the signed contract value in EUR. These are contracts already placed, not open opportunities.

Who won

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The first deadline among the largest still-open calls is Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail’s GSM-R monitoring procurement on 6 October, followed by Attenweiler’s Gigabit network operation call on 12 October and Ystad Kommun’s network and security products call on 19 October.

Method

Built from 189 public procurement notices published from 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-19 and classified into the Networking vertical: 95 calls for tender, 87 contract awards, 2 prior information notices and 2 other notices. A tender republished in a new version is counted once. Values are converted to EUR at reference rates. Comparisons use the previous 84 days, classified by the same classifier generation. Every figure on this page is computed from the notices; the commentary is written around them. Sources: TED, Prozorro, e-Zamówienia (BZP), CVP IS (Lithuania), SEAP / SICAP (e-licitatie.ro), ЦАИС ЕОП (CAIS EOP), IUB (Latvia), DOE. Tenders named in earlier editions of this column are not named again.