150.1 million manats, one tender, 27 times the next-largest listing — a signal at one buyer
AZTender's data cut of 23 September 2026 shows a 150,094,687.84 AZN tender for the Həkəriçay water reservoir, about 27 times the next-largest same-day listing; the buyer posted 7 tenders worth 386.3 million AZN in 30 days.
AZTender's data cut of 23 September 2026 shows the single highest-value tender announcement published on Azerbaijan's state procurement portal in the preceding 24 hours: construction of the Həkəriçay water reservoir ("Həkəriçay su anbarının tikintisi"), tender No. 358852, estimated at 150,094,687.84 AZN (≈150.1 million AZN). The buyer, the Directorate of Facilities Under Construction ("Tikilməkdə Olan Obyektlərin Müdiriyyəti" Publik Hüquqi Şəxsi), posted it at roughly 27 times the value of the next-largest tender published in the same window.
The numbers
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Tender | Construction of the Həkəriçay water reservoir, tender No. 358852 |
| Estimated value | 150,094,687.84 AZN |
| Published / deadline | 22 September 2026 / 5 November 2026 |
| Same buyer, last 30 days | 7 tenders, 386,299,516.50 AZN combined |
| Same buyer, since 20 September 2024 | 198 procedures, 1,070,434,997.59 AZN total, 55 (27.8%) tagged "Bir mənbə" (single-source) |
What the number is not
150,094,687.84 AZN is the ceiling the buyer is prepared to pay, not money spent, not a signed contract and not an award — the submission deadline is 5 November 2026, more than six weeks off. The dates above are calendar dates only: the registry's publication and deadline timestamps carry a documented offset, and the true Baku closing time for this tender may run around four hours earlier than the raw registry value shows, so no clock time is quoted here — bidders should confirm the exact deadline hour directly on the portal. The 27.8% single-source share covers this buyer's entire recorded history from 2024 to the present, not this specific tender: the record's own procedure-type field is blank. Azerbaijan's open procurement data records no bidder counts, so no claim about competition is made here.
Why it is a signal
- What does the 150.1 million manat estimate cover, and how was the ceiling calculated?
- Of the buyer's 198 procedures and 1.07 billion manats since 2024, how many converted into signed, executed contracts?
- Which of the buyer's 55 single-source procedures involved work of comparable scale to a reservoir project?
- Do the buyer's seven tenders and 386.3 million manats in the past 30 days reflect one budget cycle or several separate programmes?
What AZTender shows
AZTender's entity-report module tracks every procedure a buyer posts against its full recorded history, so a single 150.1 million manat announcement can be read against the Directorate's other 197 procedures and its 27.8% single-source share, rather than in isolation. A bidder assessing whether to compete for reservoir-scale infrastructure work, or an auditor and journalist screening large buyers for concentration, can pull that buyer-scoped history at aztender.ai.
A signal is not a verdict. A single large tender announcement, even one many times the size of same-day listings, can have an ordinary explanation — a major infrastructure programme reaching its procurement stage — and no conclusion about wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing is drawn here.
