3 tenders, 23.08 million manats, two days — a concentration signal in Ministry of Education's preschool repair
AZTender's data cut of 20 October 2026 shows a Ministry of Education construction unit naming the same supplier on three preschool-repair tender announcements worth 23,084,701.57 AZN, published 5-6 October 2026.
AZTender's data cut of 20 October 2026 shows the capital-construction and supply department of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Education (Azərbaycan Respublikası Təhsil Nazirliyinin Təsərrüfat Hesablı Əsaslı Tikinti və Təchizat İdarəsi) publishing three tender announcements for preschool-institution repair work, all carrying the same registry supplier name, Farid Firm (" FƏRİD" FİRMASI, stray leading space as stored in the registry), worth 23,084,701.57 AZN (≈23.08 million manats) combined, across two consecutive days, 5–6 October 2026.
The numbers
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Ministry of Education's capital-construction and supply department |
| Supplier name on all three records | Farid Firm (" FƏRİD" FİRMASI) |
| Tender announcements | 3 |
| Combined value | 23,084,701.57 AZN |
| Largest single announcement | 7,726,848.16 AZN, published 6 October 2026 |
| Publication window | 5–6 October 2026 (two consecutive days) |
What the number is not
These are tender announcements, not confirmed awards or signed contracts: the procedure-type field is blank on all three rows, and no separate status check confirms a signed contract behind the supplier name already populating the award-name field. The 23.08 million figure sums three distinct announcement amounts, not money committed or paid. It excludes a separate, same-titled pair from May–June 2026 (6,458,271.58 AZN and 6,333,533.04 AZN), listed twice under different timestamps — a duplicate-row artefact for this pairing. This buyer unit has six prior posts on this site, including an 18 October 2026 piece on the same pattern; two others, dated 14 and 30 September 2026, name Farid Firm, and none shares 23,084,701.57 AZN total. Three similarly worded, similarly priced tenders from one buyer in two days are not, by themselves, evidence of lot-splitting or collusion, and Azerbaijan's open data carries no reliable bidder count, so no competition claim is made.
Why it is a signal
- Will the three announcements convert into signed, dated contracts naming this supplier, and on what timeline?
- Why do three tenders, differing mainly in word order, for the same category of works reach the registry within two days of each other?
- Does one nationwide repair programme, split into batches, link the three lots, or are they independent procurements?
- How many suppliers were invited to bid on each of the three announcements?
- This supplier's name has surfaced in this buyer's awards earlier this year — does the pattern recur again?
What AZTender shows
AZTender's entity-report module links every tender record naming a given supplier across a buyer's history, so three separately numbered announcements with reordered titles surface as one connected pattern, not three unrelated registry pages. The same view separates announcement rows from confirmed contract rows, flagging which still lack a matching entry. A bidder assessing competition in school-repair works, or an auditor and journalist screening buyers for concentration, can pull that history at aztender.ai.
A signal is not a verdict. Three tenders naming one supplier within two days can have an ordinary explanation, such as a single repair programme split into batches, and no conclusion about wrongdoing, lot-splitting or favouritism is drawn here.
