With less than seven months to go before Expo 2027 Belgrade opens on 15 May 2027, the procurement pipeline has moved well beyond concrete and steel. Over the past year the state company Expo 2027 and related public bodies have signed contracts for everything from ticket printing to hotel laundry, and the list of winners says a lot about where the remaining opportunities lie.
This guide pulls together the larger awards reported in Serbian media, so that contractors, decorators, event agencies and suppliers can see who is already on board and what kinds of work are still being bought.
Awarded contracts at a glance
The figures below are contract values as reported, excluding VAT where the source says so.
- Furnishing the Expo Village – 4.3 billion dinars. SPV Galovica 1, one of six special-purpose companies set up by the government for the residential complex, hired a group of nine Serbian firms to equip 11 buildings with 1,500 apartments in complex E2. The group includes Jugooprema, Temma Trade, EWE Comp, Union Drvo, Marahome, Tigris Technologies, Dipo, DremCo and Atlas. The scope runs from furniture, kitchens and white goods to bedding, lighting and decorative elements in common areas.
- Laundry and dry cleaning – 401.5 million dinars. A consortium of Marera Cleaning, TRUD NNR, BAHA, LIČINA and ABM Washing will collect, wash, iron and return hotel linen from the Expo Village buildings in Surčin, according to N1.
- Maintenance machinery – 265.2 million dinars. Eighteen contracts covered 191 vehicles and machines for green and service areas, from tipper trucks and a municipal tractor to mowers and leaf blowers. Winners included TEHNIX BEO, a group led by FPM Agromehanika, Vladex, Milurović-Komerc, Valhall and Lopex. The equipment passes to the City of Belgrade after the Expo.
- National Days stage – 91.45 million dinars. UK firm Airclad and Production Pool from Ruma will design, engineer, build, maintain and dismantle a temporary modular stage for the countries' National Days, including backstage and service areas.
- Tickets – 38.2 million dinars. The Topčider banknote and coin institute will print 1 million one-day and 200,000 three-day tickets, plus 800,000 blank forms for box offices. Security features include watermarked paper, hologram foil, QR codes and UV-visible elements.
- Temporary accommodation – 5 million dinars. The Construction Directorate of Serbia, the only bidder, will provide temporary housing for staff working on preparations, Tanjug reported.
Our earlier coverage of the international event-services contract won by MC Group and Stratcom adds a further 352 million dinars to that picture.
Big tenders still worth watching
Two large procurements matter most for fit-out and exhibition specialists. In December 2025, the Office of Serbia's Commissioner for International Exhibitions sought a company to design and build the display inside the Serbian National Pavilion, covering 24,827.60 m², with an estimated value of around one billion dinars (about €8.5 million). The scope included artworks, spatial installations, audio-visual content and VR/AR. We have not found a published winner yet.
In September, Expo 2027 launched a procurement for finishing works on the Surčin site. It covers interior fit-out of exhibition halls and outdoor zones, evaporative cooling, micro-misting at entrances A, B and C and in food zones, and 130 remotely read water meters. N1 did not report a value or deadline, so check the tender documents directly.
How to follow new Expo 2027 tenders
Expo director Danilo Jerinić has said that the company's procurements are published on Serbia's Public Procurement Portal (Portal javnih nabavki), where Expo has its own section, and that planned tenders are announced in advance with their criteria. That is the place to set up alerts, rather than relying on press reports, which often appear only after a contract is signed.
What the pattern tells local suppliers
Three things stand out. First, consortia win. Almost every large award above went to a group of bidders, often pairing a foreign specialist with a Serbian partner, or several mid-sized local firms pooling capacity. Smaller decorators and furniture rental companies stand a better chance as subcontractors or consortium members than alone.
Second, operations are now being bought, not just construction. Laundry, maintenance equipment and staff housing are services for the 93-day run. Cleaning, catering logistics, security, technical maintenance and stage crews are the kinds of contracts likely to follow, though none of these has been confirmed as an upcoming tender.
Third, the timeline is tight. Pavilions are being handed to participants this autumn, and fit-out has to finish before mid-May. Firms that want a share of Expo 2027 work should register on the procurement portal now, line up partners and prepare references, since many of the remaining calls will have short windows.
Sources
- n1info.rs
- n1info.rs
- www.danas.rs
- newsmaxbalkans.com
- biznis.rs
- n1info.rs
- www.tanjug.rs
- www.tanjug.rs
- vreme.com
- www.tanjug.rs
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