Contracting passenger and goods movement by road
Ground transport is bought as a scheduled obligation rather than as a journey. The specification sets out routes or catchments, timetables or response windows, vehicle types and capacities, and the consequences of a service not running -- which in passenger transport is usually a deduction per missed departure. Contracts run for years because vehicles and drivers have to be committed to them, and they are frequently let in lots by geography so that operators of different sizes can compete for the part they can actually serve.
Driver supply, not vehicle supply, is the constraint that decides delivery. Bidders must show licensed drivers in the correct categories, compliance with driving hours and rest rules, tachograph or equivalent record keeping, and for services carrying children or vulnerable adults, background checks and often specific training. Buyers ask for the operator licence and the maintenance regime behind it, because a fleet taken off the road for defects is a service failure with no substitute. Where an incumbent workforce exists, employment transfer rules commonly apply as they do in other labour-intensive services.
Accessibility and safety requirements are specified in detail and are not optional. Wheelchair access and securement, boarding assistance, seat belts, passenger information in accessible formats, and increasingly vehicle emission standards tied to low-emission zones all appear as conditions rather than preferences. Fuel or energy price movement is normally handled by an indexation clause, and bidders should check whether one exists before assuming a multi-year price can be held: its absence is a material risk in a category where fuel is a large share of the cost.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys ground transport in Spain?
GlobalGov holds 1,217 ground transport records from 596 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are Mutua Universal Mugenat, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social nº 10 (44 records); Gerencia umivale Activa, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social número 3 (36 records); Dirección de Compras de la Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española S.A. (31 records); Secretaría General de la Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (28 records); Dirección General de la Mutual Midat Cyclops, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social, nº 1 (25 records); Dirección del Museo Nacional del Prado (17 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 15% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mutua Universal Mugenat, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social nº 10 | 44 | 3.6% |
| Gerencia umivale Activa, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social número 3 | 36 | 3.0% |
| Dirección de Compras de la Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española S.A. | 31 | 2.5% |
| Secretaría General de la Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha | 28 | 2.3% |
| Dirección General de la Mutual Midat Cyclops, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social, nº 1 | 25 | 2.1% |
| Dirección del Museo Nacional del Prado | 17 | 1.4% |
What are ground transport contracts worth in Spain?
1,127 of the 1,217 records publish a contract value. The median is $829,509 and the largest single published value is $1.1B. By size, 5 under $100k, 659 between $100k and $1M, 326 between $1M and $10M, 137 above $10M. The remaining 90 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 5 | 0.4% |
| between $100k and $1M | 659 | 58% |
| between $1M and $10M | 326 | 29% |
| above $10M | 137 | 12% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ground transport tenders in Spain?
Across the 484 Spain ground transport notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (0.2%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are ground transport tenders published in Spain?
Spain publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 44 in the last twelve months. That is 81% fewer than the 229 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 590, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 13 November 2020. July is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Spain compare with other ground transport markets?
Among the 31 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ground transport market, Spain ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is France (3,436 records against 1,217 here). Within Spain itself, ground transport is the 12th largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Spain ground transport records on this page come from?
These 1,217 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,217). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Ground Transport tenders in Spain
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical ground transport notice in Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
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