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BASE - Portal dos Contratos Públicos (IMPIC) verified 6 hours ago Contract notice

Procurement of services for the rental of 2026 Christmas lighting

Original Aquisição de serviços para aluguer de iluminação de Natal 2026

Open Portugal Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Município da Guarda

2 days left

Key facts

Closes
00:59 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€135,000
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 8 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

7 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (Portugal, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 12 days, half of them between 8 and 17 days, based on 42,708 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

This buyer usually gives 15 days (median of its last 155 calls for tender).

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 5 different companies have won the last 5 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Expected final price vs the published estimate
0%

Based on 5 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.

Summary

Machine-generated summary

The buyer is procuring services for the rental of Christmas lighting for the 2026 season. The contract covers the hire of festive lighting installations, presumably including delivery, installation and removal of the equipment for public display. The scope is defined by the title alone, covering rental services for Christmas lighting for 2026.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €135,000.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Architecture & engineering services.

  4. Check this first:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    2 days left.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    This buyer usually awards this kind of contract for between €19,000 and €49,999.

    Contracts here close a median of 0% above their estimate.

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    5 different companies won the last 5 comparable contracts.

Can I bid?

Official source

Source: BASE - Portal dos Contratos Públicos (IMPIC)

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What this buyer has paid before

Based on 5 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.

This notice
€135,000
Median award
€36,639
Middle half of past awards
€19,000 to €49,999

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Most recent awards

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Município da Guarda

Portugal

notices in the register
582
awards
85
awarded in total
€36.9M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
77
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
8%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 80 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Based on 5 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

25 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 23% of the open notices in Architecture & engineering services across Europe.

open now in Architecture & engineering services
20,674
median open notice
€480,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Portugal · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
1,723
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
2%
buyers awarded contracts here
784

Based on 2,668 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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