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7.8 million manats, one tender, largest 24-hour announcement — a new buyer on site

AZTender's data cut of 8 October 2026 shows a 7,750,246.92 AZN (≈7.8 million) tender for Lachin's Qorçu settlement reconstruction — the single largest fresh announcement in the past 24 hours, from a buyer new to this site.

AZTender's data cut of 8 October 2026 shows the single largest-value tender published on Azerbaijan's state procurement portal in the preceding 24 hours: a 7,750,246.92 AZN (≈7.8 million) construction tender for the Qorçu settlement, tender No. 359891, posted by Lachin District Restoration, Construction and Management Service ("LAÇIN RAYONUNDA BƏRPA, TİKİNTİ VƏ İDARƏETMƏ XİDMƏTİ" PUBLİK HÜQUQİ ŞƏXSİ) — a buyer not previously named on this site.

The numbers

Item Value
Tender No. 359891, "Qorçu qəsəbəsinin tikintisi (I mərhələ) (Qeyri yaşayış obyektləri)" (Construction of the Qorçu settlement, Phase I, non-residential facilities)
Buyer Lachin District Restoration, Construction and Management Service ("LAÇIN RAYONUNDA BƏRPA, TİKİNTİ VƏ İDARƏETMƏ XİDMƏTİ" PUBLİK HÜQUQİ ŞƏXSİ)
Estimated value 7,750,246.92 AZN (≈7.8 million)
Published / submission deadline 7 October 2026 / 5 November 2026 (registry timestamps, see note below)
Azerbaijan-wide tenders announced, 1–8 October 2026 300 tenders, 193,288,763.05 AZN combined

What the number is not

7,750,246.92 AZN is the buyer's estimated ceiling for this tender, not an awarded amount and not money paid — no winner exists yet. The record carries no single-source tag; the registry's own procedure-type field is blank, so this reads as one open, presumably competitive tender, not a concentration signal. The registry's publication and deadline timestamps carry a documented offset of roughly four hours from true Baku time, so no exact clock time is quoted here; bidders should confirm the deadline hour directly on the official portal.

Why it is a signal

  • What does the 7.8 million manat estimate cover within Phase I of the Qorçu settlement programme?
  • Is this the first procedure the Lachin District Restoration, Construction and Management Service has posted on the state portal, or does an earlier history exist outside this 24-hour window?
  • Why do the two CPV codes attached to this record not match a construction title, and what procurement category does the tender actually sit in?
  • How will this single announcement compare with the buyer's full posting history once further procedures accumulate?
  • Among the 300 tenders announced nationwide in the first eight days of October, how does this one buyer's share compare with other post-war reconstruction bodies?

What AZTender shows

AZTender's entity-report module builds a running profile for every buyer the moment it first posts, so a newly seen name like the Lachin District Restoration, Construction and Management Service gets a history from its very first procedure rather than appearing only once a pattern is already established. A bidder deciding whether to compete for reconstruction work, or an auditor and journalist tracking how post-war rebuilding budgets move through the portal, can follow this buyer's record as it grows at aztender.ai.

A signal is not a verdict. A single large tender from a buyer new to the data can have an entirely ordinary explanation — a reconstruction programme reaching its procurement stage — and no conclusion about wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing is drawn here.

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