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Sports Equipment Supply Contract, Divided into Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4
Contrato de Suministro de Material y Equipamiento Deportivo, Dividido en Lotes 1, 2, 3 y 4 — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 4 November at 23:59 — 4 days left.
- You submit on PLACSP — Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Submission via the Plataforma de Contratación (PLACSP): registration plus a recognised digital certificate / eIDAS signature — as an EU bidder, arrange this early; it typically takes days. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
The subject-matter of the contract to which these specifications refer is the supply referred to in Section B of the Contract Characteristics Table, in accordance with Articles 16 and 17 of the LCSP 2017. The service shall comply with the conditions set out in this specification and, where appropriate, in the Technical Specifications, which forms an integral part of it. It is excluded from the subject-matter of this contract to issue administrative acts involving the exercise of authority. In accordance with Article 99.3 of the LCSP, the contracting authority may not divide the subject-matter of the contract into lots where there are valid reasons that must be duly justified.
Excerpt from the tender documents (05 PCAP Sumin Material Deportivo.pdf), machine-translated — the original is under “Documents”.
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Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 47% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (1,120 awards since 2018, spread over 532 companies). That is well above the sector norm (33%) — newcomers have a harder time here than elsewhere.n = 1,120 awards since 2018
- The median procedure drew just one bid (891 procedures with a bid count); 61% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 891
- The award came in at a median 91% of the estimated value (649 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 79%.n = 649
- 100% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (23 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 90%.n = 23
- Not one of the 1,120 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 0%.n = 1,120
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.
Tender documents at a glance
The essentials of the tender documents, checked statement by statement against the documents. For your bid, the original documents count.
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Supply of Sports Material and Equipment for the Ayuntamiento de Chipiona (Exp. 10721‑26 PAS)
The input text concerns a Spanish public tender launched by the Ayuntamiento de Chipiona (Cádiz, Spain) for a “Contrato de Suministro de Material y Equipamiento Deportivo, dividido en Lotes 1, 2, 3 y 4”.
The legal framework and terminology are those of Spanish public procurement law (Ley 9/2017, LCSP), and the country point of view is clearly Spain.
The contract is a non‑harmonised administrative supply contract (“contrato administrativo de suministro”), mixed because it includes associated services such as transport, installation, commissioning and training.
The estimated value of the contract is 28.925,62 € (without VAT), with a bidding budget (presupuesto base de licitación) of 35.000 € (VAT included).
The contract is divided into four independent functional lots: (1) sports material and a portable multisport scoreboard, (2) sports equipment including fixed installations and protection nets, (3) a fixed professional LED screen with multisport scoreboard software and its installation, and (4) three 3x3 m customised folding sports tents with anchoring systems.
Execution takes place in Chipiona (Cádiz, ES612) at the sports facilities defined in the technical specifications (PPT), within a maximum execution period of 60 calendar days from formalisation or the date set in the contract, including delivery, installation, tests, training and documentation.
Regarding what the bidder must submit and minimum requirements, the procedure is “abierto simplificado” with electronic submission via the Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público (PLACSP), in a single electronic envelope (“Archivo único”) containing administrative documentation and the automatically quantifiable criteria.
As such, bidders must submit: (i) the Annex I “Modelo de declaración responsable (art. 159.4 LCSP)” declaring they are not prohibited from contracting; (ii) evidence of technical‑professional solvency via inscription in the “Registro Oficial de Licitadores y Empresas Clasificadas del Sector Público” (indicated as the criterion of solvency); and (iii) a specific document by which they commit to comply with the special conditions of execution of a social nature, in particular the condition aiming at eliminating inequalities between men and women and any other social, environmental or public policy obligations specified in the pliegos, which must be included in the administrative documentation section.
In the snippets provided there is no explicit requirement for a minimum annual turnover, professional indemnity insurance, or specific reference projects, beyond the registration/solvency statement; if such additional requirements exist, they would be in the PCAP/PPT but are not visible here.
The scope of the contract is clearly quantified and temporally and geographically defined.
The global contract value sums these amounts.
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The contract duration is limited to the time necessary for manufacturing/preparation, transport, delivery, assembly, installation, tests, training and commissioning, with a maximum of 60 calendar days and, according to the justificatory report, no extensions are foreseen due to the nature of the supply.
As for the award criteria and weighting, the tender is described as having “varios criterios de adjudicación” but all of them are evaluable automatically (no subjective “juicio de valor”).
The general procedure description (in both the anuncio and the “Documento de pliegos”) states that the contract will be awarded based on: (a) economic offer, “Menor Precio”, with a maximum score of up to 80 points; and (b) objective improvements (“Mejoras”) with a maximum of up to 20 points.
The offer price is to be submitted as a discount on the budget base per lot.
In the detailed lot tables, each lot shows an economic criterion “1.- Menor Precio: 80” and then improvements per lot (“2.- Mejoras Lote 1, 2, 3, 4: Otros, Subtipo criterio, Cantidad Mínima … Cantidad Máxima”) ostensibly summing to 20 points, although the extracted weighting field appears as “Ponderación: 0” due to what looks like OCR or data import issues; in practice, the narrative description of 80 + 20 points must be followed.
There are no criteria subject to judgement of value in the extracted text, and no variants are allowed.
Concerning risks and special conditions, several elements are specified.
A definitive guarantee (“garantía definitiva”) of 5 % of the award amount is required.
Subcontracting is allowed up to a maximum of 30 % of the contract, in line with standard LCSP limits.
The offer validity period (“plazo de validez de la oferta”) is 60 days.
The contract is financed without EU funds, and its processing is anticipada, i.e. initiated before full budget availability: the award is subject to the suspensive condition of the effective consolidation of the external funding (a subsidy from the Diputación Provincial de Cádiz) and the availability of adequate and sufficient credit in the corresponding budget line; until then, there is a financing risk for the bidder in terms of timing, as the contract will only become fully effective once those conditions are met.
Payment is envisaged by independent invoice per awarded lot after complete delivery, installation (where applicable) and formal acceptance by the Ayuntamiento.
The maximum amount for advertising costs is capped at 500 €.
The execution conditions include specific social clauses (eliminating inequalities between men and women and other public policy objectives) whose acceptance via a formal commitment document is mandatory.
The provided excerpts do not give explicit details on penalties for delay or defective performance, nor on mandatory site visits or a specific question deadline; the only deadline mentioned is the 15 working days for submission of tenders after publication, and any detailed penalty regime and clarification deadlines would have to be checked directly in the PCAP.
On contradictions or corrections, several points emerge and must be interpreted.
First, an earlier decree references a contract number “11721‑26 PAS Suministro Material y Equipamiento Deportivo”, whereas the announcement and all detailed data of this tender refer consistently to “10721‑26 PAS Suministro Equipamiento Deportivo”.
Given that the announcement on PLACSP and the PCAP/PPT use 10721‑26, this must be considered the correct expediente number; the “11721‑26” reference is best read as a typographical error in that earlier mixed decree (which also mentions a different contract, Expte 19‑24 PASTR).
Second, there is a dual reference to the procedure as “tramitación ANTICIPADA” in the approval resolution and as “tramitación ordinaria” in the announcement and opening resolution; the consistent PLACSP description is “procedimiento abierto simplificado, tramitación ordinaria”, so for bidders the applicable processing regime is ordinary, while “anticipada” refers only to the budgetary/financial timing (expediente tramitado anticipadamente pending subsidy).
Third, as mentioned above, there is an apparent inconsistency between the textual description of award criteria (80 points price + 20 points improvements) and the lot tables where the “Ponderación” field for improvements appears as “0”; since the general legal description of the procedure, repeated in all announcements and in the pliegos index, clearly states 80/20, that statement must prevail over the zero‑weighting artefacts in the extracted tables.
In case of doubt, the bidder should explicitly rely on the PCAP approved by resolution and, if necessary, submit a clarification request via the PLACSP profile.
Only the contracting authority's tender documents are binding. As of: 22/10/2026
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Tender documents — direct download
Who has won at this buyer so far
Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| FARTECH Grupo · CHIPIONA | 49 | 2018–2025 |
| MARIA LUISA GOMEZ ESCUDERO | 20 | 2018–2025 |
| INNOVIA COPTALIA, S.A.U. · MADRID | 16 | 2020–2026 |
| TRIDIMENSIONAL ESPECTÁCULOS SL · Cádiz | 16 | 2019–2025 |
| FERRETERÍA EL PIANO S.L. · CHIPIONA | 12 | 2021–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 667 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 16 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 26 (median of 7,730 procedures). A normal window for this market.
Foreign bidders
In Spain · Musical & sports goods, 15 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 3,700 recorded awards).
How to bid
Guide: how to apply on PLACSP — Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público (Spanien) → Registration, signature, fees — from the operator's bidder manual.
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