# Food and catering tenders: where they are published

> Public food and catering procurement: the 514 CPV codes that carry it, what its notices look like, and where the registry maps its buyers.

Source: https://trinta.ai/tenders-by-sector/food-and-catering · Format: Markdown mirror of that page · Language: en

## The vocabulary that carries it

- 15000000-8 Food, beverages, tobacco and related products (https://trinta.ai/cpv/15000000)
- 55000000-0 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services (https://trinta.ai/cpv/55000000)

514 official CPV codes fall under these divisions.

## The codes Portugal actually buys under (January to July 2026)

- [55110000 Hotel accommodation services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55110000): 356 contracts, €3.3m
- [55322000 Meal-cooking services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55322000): 90 contracts, €43m
- [15896000 Deep-frozen products](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15896000): 64 contracts, €2.6m
- [15811100 Bread](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15811100): 55 contracts, €602.8k
- [15961000 Beer](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15961000): 47 contracts, €100.9k
- [55524000 School catering services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55524000): 44 contracts, €36.4m
- [15894200 Prepared meals](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15894200): 40 contracts, €8.4m
- [55243000 Children's holiday-camp services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55243000): 40 contracts, €880.8k
- [55321000 Meal-preparation services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55321000): 34 contracts, €5.5m
- [15612500 Bakery products](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15612500): 30 contracts, €607.3k
- [55241000 Holiday centre services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/55241000): 26 contracts, €217.7k
- [15894700 Delicatessen](https://trinta.ai/cpv/15894700): 25 contracts, €638.1k

Contracts signed and value contracted under each code, counted from Portugal's open register across every procedure type. Each row is the deepest code carrying data, because a whole division is credited with everything beneath it and would take the list.

## What the notices look like

These are supply contracts with delivery obligations rather than projects, judged largely on price and logistics. The predictability is the opportunity: a supplier who knows when a school district's contract ends knows when to prepare, months before the notice.

## Who publishes these tenders

The registry classifies buyers by type (health, state enterprise, regional, defence, donor) and this sector is not one of those types, so no sector-buyer count is published here. Its notices come from the general public buyers of each country; the country pages show where those publish.

## Frequently asked questions

**Which CPV codes cover food and catering tenders?**

Food supply runs under CPV division 15, food, beverages, tobacco and related products, and catering services under division 55, hotel, restaurant and retail trade services. Institutional catering contracts frequently combine both, supply and service, in one procedure, so watching either division alone under-covers the sector.

**Are food contracts worth bidding for a smaller supplier?**

Often yes, because they are local by necessity: delivery windows and freshness requirements favour suppliers near the buyer, which narrows the real field regardless of how open the procedure is. The constraint is capacity and continuity rather than scale, and the contracts recur on a schedule that rewards preparation.

## How contested it is, measured in Portugal

- 6% of open procedures drew a single bid
- 8.3 bids on average
- 554 open procedures behind these figures
- CPV 15, Food, beverages, tobacco and related products: 6% single bid across 554 procedures

Portugal publishes its complete contract register as open data, so competition is counted there rather than estimated. These are Portuguese figures for January to July 2026, covering only open procedures whose bidder list was reported; direct awards are excluded, because there the buyer chooses who bids. Method: https://trinta.ai/barometro

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