Top 52 foreign companies awarded state contracts

Last year, over 50 foreign companies were awarded contracts by state companies or authorities worth at least €1 million each through the online public acquisitions program and the offline National Company for Highways and National Roads tender program.

The ranking made by Business Standard includes only foreign companies and is based on data provided by the National Authority that monitors public acquisitions, information from the e-licitatie.ro and licitatiepublica.ro websites, the Official Gazette, the Romanian Commodities Exchange, the website of the National Company for Highways and National Roads, and from companies.

The total value of deals signed in 2008 by the 52 companies in the ranking amounts to €1.85 billion.

Companies operating on the road infrastructure segment, such as Italian Astaldi, French Colas, or Spanish FCC Construccion lead in the ranking.

Five major categories of foreign contractors were visible in 2008: road builders, infrastructure equipment providers, pharmaceutical producers and importers, IT&C products and service suppliers, and car dealers. These categories are based on the state's main public spending categories in recent years. Many of the contracts involved partial or full European financing.

Business Standard