SectorsConstruction and public works
Construction and public works tenders: where they are published.
Construction is the largest slice of the official vocabulary and the most regionally published: the road, the school and the hospital wing are bought by the province, the municipality or the state agency, each on its own portal and its own calendar.
The vocabulary that carries it
Buyers classify every European notice with a CPV code. These are the divisions that carry construction procurement, 1,671 codes in total. Each links to its own page with the official label in four languages and the codes beneath it.
The codes Portugal actually buys under
Contracts signed and value contracted under each code in Portugal, January to August 2026, counted from the open register across every procedure type. Each row is the deepest code carrying data: a whole division would take the list, because everything beneath it counts towards it.
What the notices look like
Construction notices carry the heaviest documents in procurement: bills of quantities, technical specifications, site-visit dates that are often mandatory. Deciding early matters more here than anywhere, because a serious offer takes weeks to build and the mandatory site visit passes long before the deadline.
How contested it is, measured in Portugal
Where inside the sector
Portugal publishes its whole contract register as open data, so competition can be counted there rather than estimated. These are Portuguese figures for January to August 2026, and only open procedures whose bidder list was reported: direct awards are excluded, because there the buyer chooses who bids and a single offer is the design of the procedure. Method and sources on the Barómetro.
Where these buyers are mapped deepest
TRINTA maps 204 buyers of this type across its country pages, counted by category and never listed by name. These are the countries where the registry holds the most of them.
How TRINTA covers the sector
TRINTA does not watch a sector, it watches a company.
The radar is built from your actual catalogue rather than from a code list, scans 1360+ official sources every day, and scores each notice 0 to 100 for fit with the reasoning shown. That distinction matters most in this sector precisely because buyers file procedures under neighbouring codes: a notice tagged one branch away still surfaces when the text matches what you sell.
Frequently asked questions
01Which CPV codes cover construction tenders?
Construction procurement spans four CPV divisions: 45, construction work, which is the core; 44, construction structures and materials; 71, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services; and 43, machinery for mining, quarrying and construction. A contractor watching only division 45 misses the design, engineering and materials procedures that precede and accompany the works themselves.
02Why are construction tenders so hard to monitor?
Because the buyers are local by nature. National portals carry the large procedures, but the regional, state and municipal buyers who commission most public works publish on their own platforms, in their own language, on their own rhythm. That layer is exactly what a national-portal watch misses, and it is where the contestable volume for a mid-sized contractor usually sits.
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