165 public-works contracts signed in 30 days to 7 November 2026

By Arthur Hof · 07.11.2026 · 4 min read

Our pool holds 165 public-works contracts signed since 8 October 2026. Together they are worth 1,246,387,452 RON, about 233,471,472 EUR. The pool reads award notices from Romania's SICAP, Moldova's MTender and TED, and a contract enters it when its notice is published.

This article reads those 165 as a market: where they were signed, which authorities signed them, what a contract value leaves out, and how soon the notices appeared. It counts notices. It is not a forecast. An earlier reading of the same kind, from 12 October, counted 62 contracts for its window. We do not compare the two counts.

165 contracts in 30 days, 533 in 90

The 90-day window includes the 30-day one. Values are the contract values recorded in the notices; euro values are converted at the rate recorded for 5 November 2026.

The evidence page shows how a notice becomes a line in the pool, with its dates of signature and publication.

Arad and Iași share the 30-day county lead

In the 30 days, Arad and Iași each have 9 contracts. Brașov, Dolj, Mureș, Prahova and Vrancea follow with 8 each, then Bacău with 7. Over 90 days the order changes: București and Iași have 29 each, Timiș 28, Brașov and Cluj 23 each, Bacău and Prahova 22 each, Bihor 20.

Two cautions. The county is the one recorded for the contract in our pool, and a road directorate's contract can cover roads in several counties, so a county count shows where authorities signed, not where every metre of road lies. And contracts from Moldova and from the TED countries carry no county in the pool, so they are absent from these lists.

Road directorates and a county council lead the authority list

Authorities are counted as the notice spells their name. In the 30 days the first eight places are:

• Compania Națională de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutiere S.A., acting through its DRDP Brașov directorate: 6
• the same company without a directorate named: 5
• the same company through its DRDP Craiova directorate: 5
• Județul Vrancea (Consiliul Județean): 5
• Consiliul Județean Arad: 3
• Distribuție Energie Electrică România S.A.: 3
• Județul Satu Mare: 3
• Municipiul Oradea: 3

Over 90 days the company itself has 36 contracts, DELGAZ GRID S.A. 18, its DRDP Brașov directorate 10, its DRDP Craiova directorate 10 and another 7 under a spelling that differs in capitals, and Distribuție Energie Electrică România S.A. 10. Administrația Domeniului Public și Dezvoltare Urbană Sector 6 and Compania Națională de Investiții SA have 6 each. We do not merge name variants here.

For a supplier of road marking and signs, the lists say which public bodies sign road contracts repeatedly. Vrancea County Council's bridge contracts have been the subject of two earlier articles. The lists do not say what each contract contains.

Two contracts from this week: a value is not a quantity

Take two of the newest notices: one from Arad, which leads the count, and one from Prahova, which has 8. Together they are worth 11,988,791.58 RON, about 2,245,723 EUR.

Comuna Bocsig in Arad signed on 5 November 2026 with VOLCAR PREST G.C.I. S.R.L. for the modernisation of commune road DC 15. The value is 2,191,310.43 RON, about 410,473 EUR, and the works period is 6 months. The notice appeared the same day, as notice SCNA1138918. Its description points to a technical project with bills of quantities as part of the award documents. The notice text itself states no length, no area and no quantity of any product.

Orașul Băicoi in Prahova signed on 3 November 2026 with ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRY and four consortium partners for the modernisation of the Liliești civic centre. The value is 9,797,481.15 RON, about 1,835,250 EUR, over 36 months; the notice appeared the same day, as notice SCNA1138782. It states one quantity:

suprafață spații verzi: 6.586,00 mp.

In English: green space of 6,586 m². The works around it are described without a figure. The notice lists safer traffic through surfaces, signalling and markings:

b) creșterea siguranței circulației rutiere și pietonale prin refacerea suprafețelor, semnalizare, marcaje, delimitări și trasee accesibile;

It also names a storm-water collection and drainage system, lighting and pedestrian paths. A supplier of drainage and precast products or of marking will find the product classes named, and no length, count or area for them.

A 9.8 million RON contract and a 2.2 million RON contract state one quantity between them. Of the 19,041 contracts in our pool, 807 state a quantity in the notice text.

Notices appeared a median of 4 days after signature

For contracts signed in the last 30 days the median time from signature to publication is 4 days. For the last 90 days it is 7. The two are not the same measure. A contract signed last week whose notice is not yet published is not in the pool, so the 30-day figure counts only contracts whose notices have already appeared. The 90-day figure is the better guide to how long a notice can take. Both contracts above were published on the day they were signed.