Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in Spain

Independence, evaluation design and the data a verifier is expected to produce

Monitoring and evaluation is commissioned precisely because the buyer cannot mark its own work, so independence is a structural requirement rather than a preference. Firms that designed or delivered the programme being evaluated are normally excluded, the declaration covers affiliates and named individuals, and the contract usually protects the evaluator's right to report findings the commissioner does not want. A tender that lacks that protection is worth reading twice before bidding.

The technical bid is an evaluation design, and it is judged on whether the design can actually support the claims the commissioner wants to make. Bidders set out the questions, the counterfactual or comparison strategy, sampling, instruments, analysis and the limits of what attribution the design permits. Baseline availability usually determines what is possible: where no baseline was collected, an honest bid says which questions become unanswerable rather than promising a retrospective one.

Third-party monitoring and verification is a distinct sub-market with different requirements. Here the supplier is confirming that reported activity actually happened -- deliveries made, works built, people trained -- often in places the commissioner cannot safely visit. That needs field teams, sampling protocols that resist manipulation, geotagged and timestamped evidence, and a chain of custody for data that would survive challenge. Security, access negotiation and duty of care for field staff are priced obligations, and the reporting cycle is usually frequent and fixed.

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 monitoring evaluation in Spain?

GlobalGov holds 21 monitoring evaluation records from 17 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are Dirección General de Carreteras (3 records); Dirección Económico-Financiera de ENAIRE (2 records); Ferrocarril Metropolita de Barcelona, SA (2 records); Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (1 record); Alcaldía del Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco (1 record); Comité Ejecutivo de la Mancomunidad de los Canales del Taibilla (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 48% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are monitoring evaluation contracts worth in Spain?

17 of the 21 records publish a contract value. The median is $681,178 and the largest single published value is $22.4M. By size, 12 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 4 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to monitoring evaluation tenders in Spain?

Across the 20 Spain monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 33 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 41. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are monitoring evaluation tenders published in Spain?

Spain published 21 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 21, spread across 7 separate months of activity since 2 October 2025. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 14 April 2026, 170 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 monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, Spain ranks 23rd by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 21 here). Within Spain itself, monitoring evaluation is the 71st largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Spain monitoring evaluation records on this page come from?

These 21 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (21). 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 Monitoring Evaluation 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 monitoring evaluation notice in Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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