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Procurement of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests

Original Aquisição de testes rápidos de antigénio COVID-19

Open Portugal Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals

Buyer Unidade Local de Saúde do Algarve, EPE

8 days left

Key facts

Closes
00:59 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€28,600
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 14 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

13 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

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.

This buyer usually gives 13 days (median of its last 393 calls for tender).

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 298 different companies have won the last 630 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Expected final price vs the published estimate
0%

Based on 630 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

This tender covers the supply of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests. The contracting authority is seeking a provider able to deliver these diagnostic testing devices, which detect SARS-CoV-2 antigens and give quick results. The products procured under this procedure are intended to support testing operations wherever the buyer deploys them.

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 €28,600.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals.

  4. Check this first:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    8 days left, 7 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    This buyer usually awards this kind of contract for between €1,054 and €15,875.

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

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    298 different companies won the last 630 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 634 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.

This notice
€28,600
Median award
€4,690
Middle half of past awards
€1,054 to €15,875

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.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Unidade Local de Saúde do Algarve, EPE

Portugal

notices in the register
2,411
awards
894
awarded in total
€33.7M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
413
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
6%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 811 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

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
B.BRAUN MEDICAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA 25 €179,195 Sep 2026
MEDTRONIC PORTUGAL, LDA 11 €312,287 Aug 2026
Zarys International Group Portugal, Unipessoal, Lda 10 €265,066 Sep 2026
HEART & VASCULAR,SOLUTIONS,UNIPESSOAL LDA. 10 €136,440 Sep 2026
ACCORD HEALTHCARE UNIPESSOAL LDA 10 €66,941 Jul 2026

Based on 630 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

251 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 16% of the open notices in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals across Europe.

open now in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
10,705
median open notice
€145,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Portugal · Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals

different companies won awards here
2,012
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
6%
buyers awarded contracts here
454

Based on 23,185 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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