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Bidding on tenders in Spain.
How public procurement works in Spain — registration, eligibility, bid security and submission — checked against the official rules.
Bidding
How to bid for public contracts in Spain
How Spanish public procurement (contratación pública) works in 2026: PLACSP and the regional platforms, the 2026 thresholds, minor contracts and the simplified procedures, ROLECE registration and works classification, guarantees, the special appeal, payment terms, and what non-EU companies, including Indian firms, face under article 68 of the LCSP.
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Spain's ROLECE register and contractor classification, step by step
How Spanish and foreign companies register on ROLECE, Spain's official register of bidders (free, any nationality, 3-month maximum), and obtain contractor classification for works of €500,000 or more: works groups A–K and subgroups, categories 1–6, how the category is calculated, the documents, the 6-month process on eclasificacion, annual and three-yearly upkeep, joint ventures (UTEs), the 2026 rule letting 22 subgroups count 10 years of experience, and Catalonia's RELIC.
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Spanish public procurement glossary: contratación pública terms explained in English
Plain-English definitions of the Spanish terms you meet in public tenders in 2026: LCSP, contrato menor, procedimiento abierto simplificado and sumario, pliegos, perfil de contratante, PLACSP, DEUC, ROLECE, clasificación, solvencia, UTE, garantía provisional and definitiva, baja temeraria, recurso especial, TACRC and more.
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Can companies from outside the EU bid for EU public tenders? Country by country
Which non-EU companies have a right to bid for public contracts in the EU, EEA and Switzerland in 2026: the 22 WTO GPA parties, trade agreements with procurement chapters (CETA, Japan, UK, Singapore, Viet Nam, Chile, New Zealand, Ukraine, Mercosur), what the EU Court's Kolin ruling means for Chinese, Indian and Turkish bidders, the China medical-devices exclusion, foreign-subsidy notifications, Russia sanctions, practical steps, and the proposed EU Public Procurement Act.
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