6 awards, 48.7 million manats, two suppliers — a concentration signal at a Ministry of Education unit
AZTender's data cut of 14 September 2026 shows a Ministry of Education construction unit awarding six distinct results to two suppliers, SIMPLEX CJSC and FARID Firm, worth 48,723,618.02 AZN combined inside an eight-week window.
AZTender's data cut of 14 September 2026 shows a single buyer — the capital-construction and supply department of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Education (Təhsil Nazirliyinin Təsərrüfat Hesablı Əsaslı Tikinti və Təchizat İdarəsi) — recording six distinct real awards to two suppliers, SIMPLEX CJSC ("SİMPLEX" QSC) and FARID Firm ("FƏRİD" FİRMASI), worth 48,723,618.02 AZN combined, all published inside an eight-week window between 20 May and 14 July 2026.
The numbers
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Ministry of Education's capital-construction and supply department (Təsərrüfat Hesablı Əsaslı Tikinti və Təchizat İdarəsi) |
| SIMPLEX CJSC ("SİMPLEX" QSC) | 4 awards, 35,931,813.40 AZN |
| FARID Firm ("FƏRİD" FİRMASI) | 2 distinct awards, 12,791,804.62 AZN |
| Combined total | 48,723,618.02 AZN |
| Window | 20 May – 14 July 2026 (8 weeks) |
What the number is not
The 48.7 million figure is the sum of six distinct result records, not signed contracts, completed work or money paid to either supplier. It also corrects for a documented duplication: the registry's raw total for FARID Firm across four rows was 25,583,609.24 AZN, but two of those rows were announcement-and-contract duplicate pairs for the same two awards; the distinct total used here, 12,791,804.62 AZN, removes that double count. This is not a claim that the two suppliers are affiliated with each other or with the buyer, and it is not a bidder-count or single-source claim — the registry's procedure-type tag is blank on the SIMPLEX rows and mixed on the FARID rows.
Why it is a signal
- How many bidders took part in each of the six procedures, and did the same firms compete each time?
- What distinguished the scope of work across the four SIMPLEX awards from the two FARID awards?
- Did all six results lead to a signed contract, and were any contracts later amended?
- Why did awards to both suppliers cluster inside the same eight-week span rather than spread across the year?
- What procurement procedure type governed each of the six awards?
What AZTender shows
AZTender's entity-report module links every result record for a buyer to the suppliers it awards, so a repeat pattern like this one — two suppliers, six awards, eight weeks — surfaces as a single buyer-scoped history rather than six separate registry entries. The same module flags announcement/contract duplicate pairs before they inflate a headline total, as happened with the raw FARID figure here. A bidder assessing competition in school-construction procurement, or an auditor screening buyers for concentration, can pull that history directly. More detail is available at aztender.ai.
A signal is not a verdict. Six result records naming two suppliers inside eight weeks can have an ordinary administrative explanation, such as a single capital-works plan split into lots, and no conclusion about wrongdoing, affiliation or overpricing is drawn here.
