Accuracy specifications, control and the deliverables a survey contract owes
A survey contract is defined by its accuracy statement, and everything else follows from it. The tender should state the required positional accuracy, the coordinate reference system and vertical datum, the ground sample distance for imagery, and the point density for laser scanning, because those parameters decide the equipment, the flying or occupation time and therefore the price. A bid quoted against an unstated accuracy is not comparable with anything, and buyers who leave it out receive a spread of prices that tells them nothing.
Control and verification are what separate a survey from a collection of measurements. Ground control points established and observed against a recognised network, independent check points not used in the adjustment, and a reported accuracy assessment against those checks are the evidence that the specification was met. For airborne and satellite work, weather windows, airspace permissions and in some jurisdictions restrictions on aerial imagery are genuine programme risks that a realistic bid acknowledges rather than assumes away.
Deliverables and rights need to be specified item by item. Point clouds, orthoimagery, digital terrain and surface models, vector features captured to a defined schema and the metadata describing all of it come in formats that determine whether the buyer can actually use them, and the licence determines whether it can publish or share them. Public buyers increasingly require full rights and open formats so the data can be reused across the organisation, and they specify the metadata standard, because a survey nobody can find or interpret in five years has been bought twice.
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 survey & mapping in Spain?
GlobalGov holds 39 survey & mapping records from 34 distinct buying organisations in Spain. The most frequent publishers are European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) (2 records); Jefatura de Intendencia de Asuntos Económicos Sur (2 records); Sección de Asuntos Económicos de la Jefatura Sistemas de Información, Telecomunicaciones y Asistencia Técnica (2 records); Aena. Dirección de Contratación (1 record); Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Área de Gobierno de Economía Y Hacienda, Secretaria General Técnica; Servicio de Contratación (1 record); Consejería de Economía, Hacienda e Innovación de las Illes Balears (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) | 2 | 5.1% |
| Jefatura de Intendencia de Asuntos Económicos Sur | 2 | 5.1% |
| Sección de Asuntos Económicos de la Jefatura Sistemas de Información, Telecomunicaciones y Asistencia Técnica | 2 | 5.1% |
| Aena. Dirección de Contratación | 1 | 2.6% |
| Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Área de Gobierno de Economía Y Hacienda, Secretaria General Técnica; Servicio de Contratación | 1 | 2.6% |
| Consejería de Economía, Hacienda e Innovación de las Illes Balears | 1 | 2.6% |
What are survey & mapping contracts worth in Spain?
32 of the 39 records publish a contract value. The median is $530,531 and the largest single published value is $8.1M. By size, 1 under $100k, 22 between $100k and $1M, 9 between $1M and $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 | 1 | 3.1% |
| between $100k and $1M | 22 | 69% |
| between $1M and $10M | 9 | 28% |
| above $10M | 0 | 0.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to survey & mapping tenders in Spain?
Across the 12 Spain survey & mapping 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. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are survey & mapping tenders published in Spain?
Spain published 8 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 11, spread across 26 separate months of activity since 13 October 2016. May is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Spain compare with other survey & mapping markets?
Among the 14 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable survey & mapping market, Spain ranks 14th by number of records. The largest is United Kingdom (944 records against 39 here). Within Spain itself, survey & mapping is the 70th largest of the 73 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Spain survey & mapping records on this page come from?
These 39 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (39). 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 2026-10-12.
Open Survey & Mapping tenders in Spain
Showing 1 of the 1 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Spain market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
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