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The paper presents the issues the public sector demand for rail freight services in Poland. Tenders have been characterized in terms of: the type of load, the size of the re-quests in the volume of transport work and the results of tender procedures. The article contains an analysis of the share of the transport volume purchased in auctions. As a result, it was found that it may play important role in shaping the behavior of market actors on highly concentrated freight transport market.