Networks, treatment and the health obligations underneath the engineering
Sewerage work covers collection networks, pumping, treatment and the disposal or reuse of what comes out, and the discharge consent governs all of it. A treatment works is designed to meet numerical limits on the quality of the effluent it releases, measured and enforced by a regulator, so process guarantees are contractual and performance testing over a defined period is a condition of acceptance. A plant that is built to the drawing and cannot hold consent has not been delivered.
Network work is street work, with the constraints that implies: permits from the highway authority, traffic management, reinstatement to a specified standard with a guarantee period, and out-of-hours working where the road cannot be closed in the day. Rehabilitation techniques that avoid excavation -- lining, patching, pipe bursting -- are frequently specified because they shorten road occupation, and they require different plant and different accreditation from open-cut laying. Working in confined spaces and in sewers brings its own authorisation, gas monitoring and rescue provision.
Sanitation programmes in settings without a piped network are a distinct market with distinct evaluation. Latrine and septic construction, faecal sludge collection and treatment, and public or school facilities are judged as much on operation, maintenance arrangements and community acceptance as on construction quality, because facilities built without an emptying service and a maintenance owner fall out of use quickly. Safeguarding of workers handling waste, and separate accessible facilities for women and for people with disabilities, are specified requirements rather than design preferences.
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 sanitation sewerage in Spain?
GlobalGov holds 55 sanitation sewerage records from 41 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca, Agua y Desarrollo Rural (4 records); Consejo de Administración de Sociedad Mercantil Estatal Aguas de las Cuencas de España, S.A. (ACUAES) (3 records); Presidencia de Infraestructuras del Agua de Castilla-La Mancha (3 records); Aigües de Barcelona, Empresa Metropolitana de Gestió del Cicle Integral de l'Aigua, S.A. (2 records); Consejo Insular de Aguas de Gran Canaria (2 records); Consejo de Administración de EMAYA, Empresa Municipal d'Aigües i Clavegueram, S.A. (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 29% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca, Agua y Desarrollo Rural | 4 | 7.3% |
| Consejo de Administración de Sociedad Mercantil Estatal Aguas de las Cuencas de España, S.A. (ACUAES) | 3 | 5.5% |
| Presidencia de Infraestructuras del Agua de Castilla-La Mancha | 3 | 5.5% |
| Aigües de Barcelona, Empresa Metropolitana de Gestió del Cicle Integral de l'Aigua, S.A. | 2 | 3.6% |
| Consejo Insular de Aguas de Gran Canaria | 2 | 3.6% |
| Consejo de Administración de EMAYA, Empresa Municipal d'Aigües i Clavegueram, S.A. | 2 | 3.6% |
What are sanitation sewerage contracts worth in Spain?
48 of the 55 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.4M and the largest single published value is $186.0M. By size, 20 between $100k and $1M, 20 between $1M and $10M, 8 above $10M. The remaining 7 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 | 0 | 0.0% |
| between $100k and $1M | 20 | 42% |
| between $1M and $10M | 20 | 42% |
| above $10M | 8 | 17% |
How long do bidders get to respond to sanitation sewerage tenders in Spain?
Across the 39 Spain sanitation sewerage notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 36 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are sanitation sewerage tenders published in Spain?
Spain publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 32 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 42, spread across 28 separate months of activity since 16 July 2021. February is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 15 April 2026, 169 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 sanitation sewerage markets?
Among the 18 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable sanitation sewerage market, Spain ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is France (505 records against 55 here). Within Spain itself, sanitation sewerage is the 63rd largest of the 71 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Spain sanitation sewerage records on this page come from?
These 55 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (55). 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 Sanitation Sewerage 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 sanitation sewerage notice in Spain is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Spain – Construction materials and associated items – Supply of materials in four (4) lots for the execution of “Actions in matters of sanitation and supply in the neighborhood of El Carretón, in the municipality of Arafo”
Spain – Botanical and zoological garden services and nature reserve services – Operation and maintenance service for the facilities included in the wastewater reuse project of the treated wastewater from the Albufera Sur WWTP (Valencia)
Spain – Sewage work – Obras de ampliación y mejora del tratamiento de la EDAR de Es Mercadal. Tm. Mercadal. Menorca. Islas Baleares.
Spain – Operation of a sewage plant – Operation and maintenance service of the sanitation and wastewater treatment system of Pilar de la Horadada (Alicante).
Spain – Operation of a sewage plant – Servicio de explotación y mantenimiento de la EDAR de Crispijana y otras instalaciones periféricas del sistema de saneamiento de Vitoria- Gasteiz y de las obras de mejora y rehabilitación de la EDAR.
Spain – Construction work for water and sewage pipelines – OB-06/24 - Establecimiento de un sistema dinámico de adquisición, para la contratación de determinadas obras para el Ayuntamiento.
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