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4 awards, 133.9 million manats, one supplier — a concentration and timing signal at Azerenerji

AZTender's data cut of 15 September 2026 shows Azerenerji OJSC recording four award/result records for AzConstruction CJSC worth 133,906,945.95 AZN since March, two of them published four minutes apart on 29 July.

AZTender's data cut of 15 September 2026 shows a single buyer, Azerenerji OJSC ("AZƏRENERJİ" ASC), recording four award/result records naming a single supplier, AzConstruction CJSC ("AZCONSTRUCTION" QSC), worth 133,906,945.95 AZN combined, published between 19 March and 29 July 2026. Two of the four — 21,280,660.78 AZN and 45,964,995.01 AZN, together 67,245,655.79 AZN — were published four minutes apart, at 18:20 and 18:24, on 29 July 2026.

The numbers

Item Value
Buyer Azerenerji OJSC ("AZƏRENERJİ" ASC)
Supplier AzConstruction CJSC ("AZCONSTRUCTION" QSC)
Records 4 award/result records
Combined total 133,906,945.95 AZN
Largest single record 59,996,734.71 AZN, published 22 June 2026
Window 6 March – 29 July 2026 (almost five months)
Same-day pair 21,280,660.78 + 45,964,995.01 = 67,245,655.79 AZN, four minutes apart on 29 July 2026

What the number is not

The 133.9 million figure sums four result records, not four signed contracts, completed work or money paid. Only the cable-line record of 6 March, 6,664,555.45 AZN, has a matching entry in the registry's contract stream, and that entry is dated 19 March; the other three, including both 29 July records, are result announcements with no matching contract entry yet. It is not a single-source claim: the one record carrying a procedure-type tag reads "Açıq Tender" (open tender); the other three carry no tag. Same-buyer, same-supplier concentration and same-day timing are not, by themselves, evidence of wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing.

Why it is a signal

  • How many bidders took part in each of the four procedures, and did the same firms compete every time?
  • What distinguished the two 29 July procurements that let both clear the registry within four minutes?
  • Which of the three uncontracted result records later converted into a signed, executed contract?
  • What procedure governed the three untagged records, and does the open-tender classification on the March record hold across the rest?
  • Why did the 21.3 million and 46.0 million manat records, the two published closest together, land on the same day, minutes apart?

What AZTender shows

AZTender's entity-report module links every result record for a buyer to the suppliers it names, so four awards to one supplier inside almost five months — two of them minutes apart — surface as one buyer-scoped history rather than four separate registry entries. The same view separates result announcements from the registry's contract-stream rows, which is how one confirmed contract here is distinguished from the three not yet matched to one. A bidder tracking competition in energy-sector construction work, or an auditor screening buyers for concentration, can pull that history at aztender.ai.

A signal is not a verdict. Four result records naming one supplier across almost five months can have an ordinary administrative explanation, such as a single capital-works programme split into lots, and no conclusion about wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing is drawn here.

Correction (22 September 2026). An earlier version gave the window as 19 March – 29 July 2026. 19 March is the date of the contract-stream entry for the cable-line record; the result record itself is dated 6 March 2026. The window and its length have been corrected; no amount has changed.

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