ADIF tenders the technical management to modernize the Viladecans station.

ADIF has put out to tender the technical management and technical assistance for the supervision of the works of the project for the modernisation of Viladecans station (Barcelona). The notice, signed by the president of the entity, Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña, is published in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado) number 201, of 17 August 2026, with official reference BOE-B-2026-27192, within the public sector procurement notices section.

The contract, processed under file number 3.26/24108.0143, has an estimated value of 465,896.02 euros and an execution period of 19 months. It falls within the activity of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, on which the railway infrastructure administrator depends, and directly affects users of the commuter rail network of the Barcelona metropolitan area, for whom Viladecans station is a regular stopping point on the Llobregat corridor line.

Object and contract conditions

The purpose of the tender is the provision of technical assistance services for the technical management and supervision of the station modernisation works, classified under CPV code 71356200 (technical assistance services). The main place of provision of the services is in the province of Barcelona (NUTS code ES511).

• Contracting authority: ADIF – Presidency (Tax ID Q2801660H), with registered office at Calle Sor Ángela de la Cruz, 3, Madrid.
• Procedure: open, with no limit on the number of candidates and no variants accepted.
• Award criteria: qualitative criteria (4%), economic criteria (47%) and value judgments (49%).
• Execution conditions: social considerations and compliance by the contractor with data protection regulations.
• Electronic flows: electronic submission of tenders, orders, invoicing and electronic payment are accepted.

Schedule and submission of tenders

Tenders or requests to participate may be submitted until 10:00 a.m. on 16 September 2026, electronically through the platform https://elicitadores.adif.es or at the address of ADIF in Madrid. The opening of the economic tender envelope is scheduled for 15 October 2026 at 10:00 a.m., in the tender opening room in Madrid, in a private session.

• Tenderers must keep their tenders valid for 4 months from the opening.
• The contract is covered by the Agreement on Government Procurement.
• The tender documents are available for free, direct, complete and unrestricted access through the contracting profile on the Public Sector Procurement Platform.
• The notice was sent to the Official Journal of the European Union on 11 August 2026 and published in the OJEU with reference 2026/S154-558626 on 12 August 2026.

Appeals against the award may be filed with the Central Administrative Court of Contractual Appeals, within a period of 15 days.

Impact for travelers in the metropolitan area

The modernization of Viladecans station is part of ADIF’s effort to renovate Barcelona’s commuter rail infrastructure, one of the corridors with the highest passenger traffic in Spain. The contracting of the technical management is the previous step for the works to be executed with guarantees of technical and economic control, which anticipates an improvement in accessibility, safety and quality of service at a station used daily by thousands of users from Baix Llobregat.

Source: Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado), No. 201, August 17, 2026, Sec. V-A (Announcements. Public Sector Contracting), pp. 43955-43957 (official reference: BOE-B-2026-43955).