2 awards, 17.6 million manats, three hours apart — a concentration signal at Ministry of Education unit
AZTender's data cut of 4 October 2026 shows a Ministry of Education construction unit recording two award records to one supplier worth 17,600,405.80 AZN, published three hours apart on 29 September 2026.
AZTender's data cut of 4 October 2026, taken at 03:16:58 UTC, shows the Ministry of Education's capital-construction and supply unit (Azərbaycan Respublikası Təhsil Nazirliyinin Təsərrüfat Hesablı Əsaslı Tikinti və Təchizat İdarəsi) recording two award records naming one supplier, S.H. İnşaat Xidməti LLC ("S.H. İNŞAAT XİDMƏTİ" MMC), worth 17,600,405.80 AZN combined (≈17.6 million manats), both published on 29 September 2026, roughly three hours apart.
The numbers
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Ministry of Education's capital-construction and supply unit (Azərbaycan Respublikası Təhsil Nazirliyinin Təsərrüfat Hesablı Əsaslı Tikinti və Təchizat İdarəsi) |
| Supplier | S.H. İnşaat Xidməti LLC ("S.H. İNŞAAT XİDMƏTİ" MMC) |
| Award 1 | 8,407,155.75 AZN, published 29 September 2026 at 14:47:01 UTC |
| Award 2 | 9,193,250.05 AZN, published 29 September 2026 at 17:38:51 UTC |
| Combined total | 17,600,405.80 AZN |
| Gap between the two awards | roughly three hours (14:47 to 17:38 UTC) |
What the number is not
Both rows are the registry's result records, not confirmed signed or executed contracts; the amount shown is the registry's result-record figure, not money paid out. The two awards carry different titles and different amounts, which rules out the duplicate-row artefact — an announcement row and a contract row for the same tender appearing twice — documented elsewhere in this data set; these are two genuinely separate procurements. No bidder-count or competition-level claim is made, since Azerbaijan's open procurement data does not publish bidder counts. The buyer has appeared on this site three times before, each time for other suppliers; this specific supplier and these two award records are new.
Why it is a signal
- What distinguishes the two repair-works scopes awarded to S.H. İnşaat Xidməti three hours apart, beyond both covering "a number of educational institutions"?
- Why did the buyer run two separate award procedures on the same day for the same supplier rather than one combined procurement?
- Does either award record carry the registry's "Bir mənbə" (single-source) procedure-type tag?
What AZTender shows
AZTender's entity-report module tracks every result record against a single buyer over time, which is how two awards to one supplier landing three hours apart surface as a same-day pairing rather than two unrelated entries, carrying forward the duplicate-row check already applied to this buyer's earlier profiles. A bidder tracking a buyer's award pace, or an auditor and journalist screening for same-day supplier concentration, can pull that view at aztender.ai.
A signal is not a verdict. Two award records to one supplier, published three hours apart on the same day, can have an ordinary explanation, such as two separate repair-works procedures clearing the registry in the same administrative session, and no conclusion about wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing is drawn here.
