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Acquisition of forest firefighting vehicles - VFCI

Aquisição de veíuculo florestal de combate a incêndio - VFCI — original title

PTPortugal · Braga

Your path to submission

Deadline: 8 November at 17:00 — 7 days left.
The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
Offer and evidence in: Portuguese.
Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.

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What the buyer is looking for

Acquisition of forest firefighting vehicles - VFCI

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

BuyerAssociação Humanitária e Beneficiente de Bombeiros Voluntários de Braga

TypeSupplies

Estimated value€248,000

Published13 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Place of performanceBraga

Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment

CPV 34144210

Clement

References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Portuguese.

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex 1

Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration

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Administrative conditions

The full notice, official wording

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
JACINTO MARQUES DE OLIVEIRA,SUCESSORES LDA	2	2013–2025
VIANAS, SA	2	2025
DST Solar, S.A.	1	2024
Transponto - Comunicações Ponto a Ponto, Lda	1	2025
CRIAT, LDA.	1	2024

From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.bvbraga.pt

Deadline — Sunday 8 November at 17:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 943 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 27 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 29 (median of 559 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

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Foreign bidders

In Portugal · Transport equipment, 72 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 992 recorded awards) — mostly from Spain, France, Italy.

Submission language: Portuguese.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents

Goes directly to this tender on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.

Put together the evidence — in Portuguese

Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.

Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline

Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.

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