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Acquisition of a Pilot Boat

Aquisição de uma Lancha de Pilotos — original title

PTPortugal · Freguesia de Leça da Palmeira

Your path to submission

Deadline for requests to participate: 9 November at 18:00 — 8 days left. Two-stage procedure: by this deadline you submit a request to participate (proof of eligibility). Only shortlisted firms are then invited to submit a tender.
The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
Offer and evidence in: Portuguese.
Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.

Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

Contract

BuyerAPDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, SA →

TypeSupplies

Estimated value€2,500,000

Published13 Oct 2026

ProcedureRestricted procedure

Place of performanceFreguesia de Leça da Palmeira

Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment

CPV 34500000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

11% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (63 awards since 2025, spread over 41 companies). That is well below the sector norm (25%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 63 awards since 2025
Not one of the 63 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 14%.n = 63

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.

Clement

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

What you must prove — eligibility criteria

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References: supplies

Capacidade Técnica

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Financial ratio required

Capacidade Financeira

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Security/guarantee required

Requirement texts are quoted in the notice's original language — only the official wording is binding.

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
CONSULMAR – Projectistas e Consultores, Ld.ª	3	2026
DDN - Gestão de Projectos, S.A.	2	2026
EXPANDINDÚSTRIA - Estudos, Projectos e Gestão de Empresas, S.A.	2	2026
MSW - Estudos e Projectos de Obras Marítimas, Lda	2	2025–2026
Teixeira Duarte - Engenharia e Construções, S.A.	2	2026

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

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.apdl.pt

Deadline — Monday 9 November at 18:00

Deadline for requests to participate

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 28 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 29 (median of 559 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

The rules of the market →

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

The 2 criteria on the left, plus your price.

Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline

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

To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →

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