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Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky
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- Type
- National rail HQ — ministry; state administration of railways, owner-side body for ŽSR, ZSSK and ZSSK CARGO, and the competent authority for rail public passenger services
- Market · Region
- European Union · Slovakia
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Signalling & train control, Track & civil, Electrification, Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Cybersecurity
Sets Slovak rail policy, operates and develops railway infrastructure, contracts passenger services, and channels EU funding into rail projects.
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Sets Slovak rail policy and is the state body for the operation, development and modernisation of the railway infrastructure; contracts rail public passenger services, holds the infrastructure operation contract with ŽSR, hosts the special building authority for railway structures, and is the intermediate body that channels Program Slovensko and Connecting Europe Facility money into rail projects.
- Type
- National rail HQ — ministry; state administration of railways, owner-side body for ŽSR, ZSSK and ZSSK CARGO, and the competent authority for rail public passenger services
- Where
- Slovakia · Bratislava
- Programmes
- Connecting Europe Facility, ERTMS / ETCS, TEN-T
- Technology areas
- Signalling & train control, Track & civil, Electrification, Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Cybersecurity
Structure
- controls ZSSK CARGO — ZSSK CARGO was founded on 1 January 2005 with the Slovak Republic as founder and sole shareholder, under the transport ministry's rail remit (active · since 2005-01-01)
- controls ŽSR — State body for the operation, development and modernisation of the railway infrastructure ŽSR manages; ŽSR was established by Act No. 258/1993 Coll. (active · since 1993-01-01)
- controls ZSSK — Ministry holds the rail section that contracts public passenger rail services; ZSSK is the state-owned national passenger carrier (active)
- operated by ZSSK — Rail public passenger services under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007; the ministry gave notice in December 2025 of competitive tendering for regional packages from December 2029 and December 2030 (active)
Sources for these relationships (8)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Železničná doprava — the ministry's rail section: state administration of railways, infrastructure operation contracts, public service transport contracts, rail liberalisation and the special building authority for railway structures (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. · O spoločnosti — founded 1 January 2005, the Slovak Republic is founder and sole shareholder, the only network-wide rail freight carrier on the Slovak market (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Železnice Slovenskej republiky · Company profile (English) — ŽSR established 1 January 1993 under Act No. 258/1993 Coll. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Železnice Slovenskej republiky · Podmienky používania železničnej siete 2027 (network statement, file sietove-vyhlasenie-2027-f.pdf, 84 pages, in force from 14 December 2025 for timetable year 2027, 13 December 2026 to 11 December 2027). Locations for the figures and desks this file draws from it, because the PDF uses subsetted fonts that defeat text extraction: the Kontakty table is in Section 1 (Oddiel 1), printed pages 15 to 19 (PDF pages 16 to 20) — Ministry of Transport and Dopravný úrad desks on printed page 15, ŽSR one-stop shop on 16, CLaO secretariat and the expertise and infrastructure departments on 17, Železničná energetika and Železničné telekomunikácie on 18; the gauge shares are in Section 2 under Rozchod železničných tratí, printed page 25 (PDF page 26); the lines equipped with ETCS are in Section 2 under Systémy riadenia dopravy / Vlakový zabezpečovací systém, printed page 30 (PDF page 31) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s. · Verejné obstarávanie — ZSSK is a sector contracting entity under §9(1) of Act 343/2015 Coll.; Sekcia obstarávania a nákupu runs procurement; ÚVO profile and the electronic purchasing system (ENS) supplier list (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 861299-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of a regional rail package in Trenčiansky and Žilinský kraj (Žilina–Rajec, Čadca–Makov, Žilina–Púchov/Trenčín, Liptovský Hrádok/Liptovský Mikuláš–Žilina, Žilina–Čadca/Skalité, Čadca–Skalité state border, Kraľovany–Trstená), six years from 14 December 2030 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 861495-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of rail public passenger services, six years from 9 December 2029 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 863269-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of rail public passenger services, eight years from 14 December 2030 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry Transport regional rail public service packages | Planned | Announced December 2025 |
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- Procurement structure
- Award history (4)
- Entry path
- Portals (2)
- Published contacts (5)
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11 sources · all primary
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Železničná doprava — the ministry's rail section: state administration of railways, infrastructure operation contracts, public service transport contracts, rail liberalisation and the special building authority for railway structures (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Kontakt — citizen desk obcan@mindop.sk, +421 2 5949 4738 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Verejné obstarávanie (transparency section — the ministry's own procurement) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Informácie o Programe Slovensko 2021–2027 — programme total EUR 12.6 billion of EU resources („Celková suma pridelených európskych zdrojov je 12,6 miliardy eur“); MIRRI is the managing authority and the Ministry of Transport one of the intermediate bodies, holding an allocation of EUR 3,000,281,170 (EU source) of which EUR 2,562,231,170 is for transport, EUR 416,550,000 for residential buildings and EUR 21,500,000 for brownfields, under policy objective 3 (motorway completion, railway modernisation, water infrastructure, regional accessibility) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Ministerstvo dopravy investuje do bezpečnejších železníc ďalších 135 miliónov eur z európskych zdrojov — CEF award: Spišská Nová Ves–Spišské Tomášovce EUR 96.7m, Košice–Čierna nad Tisou EUR 27.3m incl. the Ruskov traction substation and Barca turnouts, EUR 11m for rail safety, and over EUR 5m each to ZSSK and ZSSK Cargo for ETCS (published 2025-11-05 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Slovensko získalo z Bruselu vyše 141 miliónov eur na modernizáciu dopravy — CEF award incl. Vydrník–Spišská Nová Ves modernisation at about EUR 100m, ERTMS/ETCS on 23 ZSSK CARGO freight locomotives and ETCS on 29 ZSSK passenger vehicles; nearly 8 per cent of the cohesion allocation (published 2025-07-07 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Ministerstvo dopravy Slovenskej republiky · Stavebný ruch na Kysuciach aj jednotný cestovný lístok — rezort dopravy čaká v roku 2026 viacero významných projektov (rail projects due to complete in 2026, the December 2025 government action plan for railway safety, and the single integrated ticket) (published 2026-01-02 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● Železnice Slovenskej republiky · Podmienky používania železničnej siete 2027 (network statement, file sietove-vyhlasenie-2027-f.pdf, 84 pages, in force from 14 December 2025 for timetable year 2027, 13 December 2026 to 11 December 2027). Locations for the figures and desks this file draws from it, because the PDF uses subsetted fonts that defeat text extraction: the Kontakty table is in Section 1 (Oddiel 1), printed pages 15 to 19 (PDF pages 16 to 20) — Ministry of Transport and Dopravný úrad desks on printed page 15, ŽSR one-stop shop on 16, CLaO secretariat and the expertise and infrastructure departments on 17, Železničná energetika and Železničné telekomunikácie on 18; the gauge shares are in Section 2 under Rozchod železničných tratí, printed page 25 (PDF page 26); the lines equipped with ETCS are in Section 2 under Systémy riadenia dopravy / Vlakový zabezpečovací systém, printed page 30 (PDF page 31) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 861299-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of a regional rail package in Trenčiansky and Žilinský kraj (Žilina–Rajec, Čadca–Makov, Žilina–Púchov/Trenčín, Liptovský Hrádok/Liptovský Mikuláš–Žilina, Žilina–Čadca/Skalité, Čadca–Skalité state border, Kraľovany–Trstená), six years from 14 December 2030 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 861495-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of rail public passenger services, six years from 9 December 2029 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
- ● European Union · TED notice 863269-2025 — prior information notice under Regulation (EC) 1370/2007, Verejné služby v preprave cestujúcich — competitive tendering of rail public passenger services, eight years from 14 December 2030 (published 2025-12-24 · checked 2026-09-13)
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