Award procedures

In an open procedure, all economic operators may submit a tender and any negotiation on the terms and conditions of the contract is excluded.

This is a faster open procedure in which economic operators must be registered in the Registro Oficial de Licitadores y Empresas Clasificadas [Official Register of Tenderers and Classified Undertakings] or in the equivalent register of the Autonomous Communities.

Any economic operator may request to participate in a restricted procedure, but only those selected by the contracting authority may submit a tender.

Any economic operator may request to participate in a competitive procedure with negotiation, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit tenders and negotiate.

This is a negotiated procedure which is not published beforehand. This procedure can only be used in specific circumstances.

Any interested economic operator may submit a request to participate in response to a contract notice, providing the information and the documents requested by the contracting authority for the qualitative selection.

The purpose of the dialogue is to develop one or more solutions which are aimed at meeting needs and which must serve as the basis for the selected candidates to submit a tender.

This procedure is used when the need arises to acquire goods or services that are not yet available on the market. Several undertakings may participate by way of the innovation partnership procedure.

This procedure is used to develop an idea for a design.