Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit
ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.
Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.
The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.
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 ict equipment in Spain?
GlobalGov holds 1,415 ict equipment records from 725 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are EJIE, S.A. - Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco - EJIE-Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco (21 records); Dirección General de la Entidad Pública Empresarial RED.ES (20 records); Axencia Para a Modernización Tecnolóxica De Galicia - Xunta De Galicia (14 records); Rectorado de la Universidad de Zaragoza (12 records); División Económica y Técnica (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía) (10 records); Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional y Turismo del Gobierno de Cantabria (9 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 6.1% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| EJIE, S.A. - Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco - EJIE-Sociedad Informática del Gobierno Vasco | 21 | 1.5% |
| Dirección General de la Entidad Pública Empresarial RED.ES | 20 | 1.4% |
| Axencia Para a Modernización Tecnolóxica De Galicia - Xunta De Galicia | 14 | 1.0% |
| Rectorado de la Universidad de Zaragoza | 12 | 0.8% |
| División Económica y Técnica (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía) | 10 | 0.7% |
| Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional y Turismo del Gobierno de Cantabria | 9 | 0.6% |
What are ict equipment contracts worth in Spain?
1,302 of the 1,415 records publish a contract value. The median is $629,260 and the largest single published value is $1.4B. By size, 10 under $100k, 851 between $100k and $1M, 374 between $1M and $10M, 67 above $10M. The remaining 113 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 | 10 | 0.8% |
| between $100k and $1M | 851 | 65% |
| between $1M and $10M | 374 | 29% |
| above $10M | 67 | 5.1% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ict equipment tenders in Spain?
Across the 406 Spain ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 33 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 2 (0.5%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are ict equipment tenders published in Spain?
Spain publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 48 in the last twelve months. That is 79% fewer than the 232 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 539, spread across 67 separate months of activity since 29 April 2019. 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 ict equipment markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, Spain ranks 7th by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 1,415 here). Within Spain itself, ict equipment is the 10th largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Spain ict equipment records on this page come from?
These 1,415 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,415). 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 Ict Equipment 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 ict equipment notice in Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Spain – Computer equipment and supplies – Establecimiento de un sistema dinámico de adquisición de equipamiento Informático y Mobiliario en la Universidad de Córdoba.
Spain – Computer equipment and supplies – Suministro e instalación de un servidor de computación de alto rendimiento destinado al Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología de la Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Spain – Computer equipment and supplies – PRTR-PID. Contratación por lotes, del suministro de una solución para el diseño, desarrollo, implementación, puesta en marcha y mantenimiento del PT01 gemelo digital de análisis de impacto de la afluencia de personas (lote 1); y servicio del diseño, desarrollo, implementación, y mantenimiento del PT03 sistema inteligente de indicadores hoteleros Datalab (lote 2), con financiación PRTR
Spain – Photocopying and offset printing equipment – Suministro en régimen de arrendamiento, instalación y mantenimiento integral de multifuncionales para diversas dependencias del Ayuntamiento de La Rinconada.
Spain – Computer platforms – Suministro y servicio para la instalación y gestión de infraestructura tecnológica de captura, gestión, analítica y visualización de datos
Spain – Computer equipment and supplies – Arrendamiento de infraestructura para el CPD sin opción a compra y adquisición de licencias Microsoft Office Standard 2024 LTSC.
Spain – Super computer – Sistema de computación de altas prestaciones para procesamiento masivamente paralelo y desarrollo de modelos de aprendizaje profundo para el Servicio de Informática de la Universidad de Córdoba (UCO)”, perteneciente al Proyecto Ref.EQC2024-008685-P concedido en la Convocatoria 2024 de Ayudas para la Adquisición de Equipamient o Científico-Técnico.FEDER
Spain – Labels – Contratación de un suministro de etiquetas, cintas de impresión, tóners, material de oficina y sobres del Banco de sangre y Tejidos.
Spain – Computer equipment and supplies – El objeto del presente contrato es el suministro de equipamientos informáticos mediante la utilización de un Sistema Dinámico de Adquisición
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