Austria IT Procurement Monitor
Who wins Austria’s public IT contracts — and how much competition is really behind them? We analysed 17,809 IT awards from 2019 to 2026, worth €6.4bn in recorded value, in the open procurement data. The most striking finding is not about the sums, but about missing competition.
of public IT awards received only a single bid
Data basis: offenevergaben.at core data · dump as of 19 July 2026
IT awards analysed
Recorded contract volume
Median contract value
Single bid only
The competition gap in numbers
Three figures summarise Austria’s IT procurement market: how often only one bidder competed, how large a typical contract is, and what share went to small and medium enterprises.
Single-bidder rate
Distribution of contract values
Half of all IT contracts fall between the 25th and 75th percentile. The median marks the typical contract — more robust than a mean distorted by mega-deals.
SME share
Share of awards going to small and medium enterprises — despite concentration among a few large suppliers.
Basis: 17,809 IT awards (CPV 72*, 2019–2026), offenevergaben.at core data.
Seven years of IT procurement
Contract volume grows, competition stays thin: across the whole period the single-bidder rate never fell below two thirds. The recent 2025/26 dip is partly reporting lag — recent awards often add their bid count later.
Awards per year
Number of IT contracts awarded
Single-bidder rate per year
Share with a single bid (%)
Median contract value €89,760 → €106,633 · Basis: 14,530 dated awards (contract conclusion 2019–2026).
Where the money goes
IT awards spread across the CPV sub-classes. Two segments dominate by count: general IT services and software development/consulting.
Contract values by size band
A clear cluster just above €50,000 — the threshold above which a formal notice becomes standard. Below it, little enters the dataset.
Actual website design (CPV 72413) is a niche: only 62 awards, median €94,200. The market is IT infrastructure and software, not web design.
What the numbers mean
Three in four awards without real competition
For 75.9% of the IT awards analysed, only a single bid was on the table. One bidder does not automatically mean an improper award — requirements are often so specific that only one provider fits. But at scale and steady across seven years, a single-bidder rate this high is a clear signal of structural competition failure: prices are barely disciplined and market access for newcomers is narrow.
A billion-euro market of mid-sized contracts
Recorded award volume 2019–2026 stands at €6.41B. Yet the typical contract is modest: median €95,720, the middle quarter between €60,632 and €197,280. Because individual framework agreements reach hundreds of millions, we deliberately report the median rather than the mean.
Few buyers, concentrated volume
The ten largest contracting authorities account for 53.8% of total award volume — led by state-owned bodies such as ÖBB, ASFINAG, the Federal Computing Centre and the City of Vienna. By count 77.9% of awards go to SMEs, but the volume concentrates on a few large suppliers.
Who buys, who supplies
Top-10 authorities = 53.8% of total volume
Largest authorities (by volume)
- 01ÖBB-Holding€741M271 Awards
- 02ASFINAG€729M1,773 Awards
- 03Stadt Wien€529M318 Awards
- 04Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)€346M1,908 Awards
- 05Netz Niederösterreich€216M58 Awards
- 06WKO Inhouse (WKO-IT)€195M68 Awards
- 07ÖBB-Infrastruktur€192M957 Awards
- 08ÖBB Business Competence Center€175M1,813 Awards
Most frequent suppliers (by awards)
- 01EBCONT698€194M
- 02Tietoevry / Tieto Austria555€148M
- 03SOFTCOM Consulting435€82M
- 04Accenture399€156M
- 05Atos IT Solutions387€183M
- 06Programmierfabrik358€59M
- 07ACP IT Solutions322€73M
- 08TechTalk317€73M
Authorities by award volume, suppliers by frequency. Name duplicates are merged via registration number and normalisation; framework agreements with multiple companies are not counted as a single supplier.
How this study is built
Transparency is part of the asset: every figure traces back to the open source and an explicit base. What we deliberately do not claim is stated here too.
Source & filter
Daily core-data dump from offenevergaben.at (processing of the data.gv.at procurement data). Evaluated: award notices (art = KD_8_2*) with CPV 72* — 17,809 IT awards 2019–2026.
Single-bidder rate (EU definition)
Share of awards with exactly one received bid, among the 12,443 awards with a stated bid count. Mirrors the EU Single Market Scoreboard methodology.
Median, not mean
Contract values are strongly right-skewed. Median and percentiles over 14,875 awards with value > 0; framework agreements with multiple companies (1,629×) are not counted as a single supplier.
Limits
No regional split: the NUTS region field is practically empty. The yearly trend uses the contract-conclusion date; garbage years (0001/2030) are filtered. The SME share is based on the populated SME field (patchy in early years — hence no SME trend line).
Free to use — with attribution
The aggregated figures in this study are free to use (CC BY 4.0). Newsrooms, analysts and trade publications may quote the numbers and embed the dataset.
Aggregate dataset
All figures as CSV: headline, yearly time series (median/p25/p75/volume/SME), CPV segments, top-20 authorities and suppliers, value size bands.
Aggregate (CSV)Raw dataset
One award per row: 17,809 IT contracts with authority, supplier, contract value, year, CPV, bid count and SME flag. For your own analysis.
Raw data (CSV, 2 MB)Suggested citation
Blck Alpaca (2026): Austria IT Procurement Monitor. Data basis: offenevergaben.at core data, dump as of 19 July 2026.
https://blckalpaca.at/en/it-procurement-monitor-austria
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