SectorsTransport and infrastructure
Transport and infrastructure tenders: where they are published.
Transport procurement buys two very different things under one name: the vehicles and rolling stock, and the services that run them. Rail, ports, airports and urban transit operators are usually separate legal entities, each buying on its own account.
The vocabulary that carries it
Buyers classify every European notice with a CPV code. These are the divisions that carry transport procurement, 608 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
63515000Travel services405 · €2.7m60130000Special-purpose road passenger-transport services312 · €17.8m63516000Travel management services307 · €1.3m60172000Hire of buses and coaches with driver213 · €8.8m34144900Electric vehicles184 · €14.1m34928480Waste and rubbish containers and bins124 · €6.6m60140000Non-scheduled passenger transport104 · €2.8m60120000Taxi services83 · €895.7k60182000Hire of industrial vehicles with driver78 · €3.3m34351100Tyres for motor cars67 · €3.7m34928400Urban furniture59 · €2m60171000Hire of passenger cars with driver49 · €1.7mContracts signed and value contracted under each code in Portugal, January to July 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
A transport notice is either a fleet purchase, a concession or an operating contract, and the third kind runs for years, which makes the award calendar more important than the notice calendar: knowing when a route contract expires is knowing when the opportunity exists.
How contested it is, measured in Portugal
Where inside the sector
34Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation13.4% single bid · 61260Transport services (excl. Waste transport)14.2% single bid · 204Portugal publishes its whole contract register as open data, so competition can be counted there rather than estimated. These are Portuguese figures for January to July 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.
Who publishes these tenders
The TRINTA registry classifies buyers by type, health, state enterprise, regional, defence, donor, and this sector is not one of those types: its notices come from the general public buyers of each country rather than from a distinct class of publisher. So there is no honest sector-buyer count to print here. What the country pages do show is where those general buyers publish, national portal first and the rest beside it, country by country.
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 1010+ 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
Which CPV codes cover transport tenders?
Transport procurement uses CPV division 34, transport equipment and auxiliary products, for vehicles and rolling stock, division 60, transport services, for operating contracts, and division 63, supporting and auxiliary transport services, for terminal, handling and logistics work. Infrastructure for transport, roads, rail beds, terminals, is procured under the construction divisions instead.
Who buys transport contracts?
Rarely a ministry. In most countries the buyers are the railway company, the port and airport authorities, the roads agency and the municipal transit operators, each a separate entity with its own procurement channel. TRINTA maps those operators per country as their own sources, which is the only way their notices arrive at the same speed as the national portal's.
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