# IT and telecoms tenders: where they are published

> Public IT and telecoms procurement: the 1,131 CPV codes that carry it, what its notices look like, and where the registry maps its buyers.

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

## The vocabulary that carries it

- 48000000-8 Software package and information systems (https://trinta.ai/cpv/48000000)
- 72000000-5 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (https://trinta.ai/cpv/72000000)
- 30000000-9 Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages (https://trinta.ai/cpv/30000000)
- 32000000-3 Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment (https://trinta.ai/cpv/32000000)
- 64000000-6 Postal and telecommunications services (https://trinta.ai/cpv/64000000)

1,131 official CPV codes fall under these divisions.

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

- [72268000 Software supply services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/72268000): 344 contracts, €38.7m
- [30213100 Portable computers](https://trinta.ai/cpv/30213100): 270 contracts, €6.2m
- [72611000 Technical computer support services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/72611000): 257 contracts, €14.5m
- [32321200 Audio-visual equipment](https://trinta.ai/cpv/32321200): 176 contracts, €7.6m
- [30197630 Printing paper](https://trinta.ai/cpv/30197630): 160 contracts, €4.6m
- [30192700 Stationery](https://trinta.ai/cpv/30192700): 159 contracts, €2.4m
- [72267100 Maintenance of information technology software](https://trinta.ai/cpv/72267100): 156 contracts, €8.1m
- [72261000 Software support services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/72261000): 131 contracts, €4.1m
- [72910000 Computer back-up services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/72910000): 101 contracts, €7.7m
- [32322000 Multimedia equipment](https://trinta.ai/cpv/32322000): 92 contracts, €5m
- [48218000 License management software package](https://trinta.ai/cpv/48218000): 91 contracts, €8.6m
- [30213300 Desktop computer](https://trinta.ai/cpv/30213300): 84 contracts, €4.1m

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

IT notices are dominated by frameworks and renewals. Winning the framework is the market entry; the revenue arrives through call-offs afterwards, which makes the expiry dates of existing frameworks the most valuable signal in the sector.

## 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 IT and telecoms tenders?**

IT procurement spans CPV division 48, software package and information systems, and division 72, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, with division 30 for computing machinery, 32 for telecommunication equipment and 64 for postal and telecommunications services. Public buyers split the same project across several of these codes, so a single-code watch is unusually lossy in this sector.

**How competitive is public IT procurement?**

Less than its reputation suggests. In the Portuguese market data TRINTA publishes, software and IT services are among the categories with the highest share of procedures receiving very few bids, which means the field is thinner than suppliers assume and the barrier is usually knowing the procedure exists in time, not out-competing a crowd.

## How contested it is, measured in Portugal

- 25.4% of open procedures drew a single bid
- 4.8 bids on average
- 1,759 open procedures behind these figures
- CPV 30, Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages: 13.2% single bid across 674 procedures
- CPV 72, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support: 34.9% single bid across 455 procedures
- CPV 48, Software package and information systems: 37.5% single bid across 373 procedures
- CPV 32, Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment: 23.3% single bid across 257 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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