Arteixo re-tenders the cafeteria of the Suevos social center

The Arteixo City Council has opened the bidding for the administrative domain concession for the operation of the bar-cafeteria of the Suevos Social and Cultural Center, with a minimum annual fee of 1 euro and a duration of two years, extendable up to a maximum of four. The announcement, signed by the councilwoman delegated for Contracting, Heritage, Tourism, and New Technologies, Patricia Amado Varela, on November 5, is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña (BOP) no. 217 on Thursday, November 12, 2026, with announcement number 2026/7307. This is the municipality’s second attempt to award this service, after the first procedure remained vacant due to a lack of admissible offers.

The contract is processed under file 2026/C006/000006 and the contracting authority is the Arteixo City Council, with NIF P-1500500B and headquarters at Praza Alcalde Ramón Dopico 1, 15142 Arteixo. The tender documents are available freely, directly, completely, and free of charge on the municipal contracting website, and the procedure is open, with a single award criterion: the economic offer, that is, the fee offered upwards from the fixed minimum. Variants are not permitted.

The object of the contract falls within hospitality services, with CPV codes 55330000 (cafeteria services) and 55410000 (bar management services). The main place of execution is the premises at Rúa Cruceiro nº 2, in the parish of Suevos, in the municipality of Arteixo.

Minimum fee of 1 euro and up to four years of operation

The economic and temporal conditions of the contract are as follows:

• Minimum fee: 1.00 euro per year, improvable upwards and not subject to VAT.
• Initial duration: two years.
• Extensions: annual and under the same conditions, for up to two more years, subject to prior agreement by the contracting body adopted at least two months before the end of the previous term.
• Maximum total duration: four years, including extensions.
• Variants: not permitted.

The most economically advantageous offer will be determined exclusively by the fee offered, so the interest of the tender for restaurateurs lies in the possibility of improving the starting amount, which is symbolic.

Thirty calendar days and electronic or paper submission

The deadline for receiving offers is 30 calendar days from the publication of the tender in the Contractor Profile of the Arteixo City Council. Documentation can be submitted via two channels:

• Electronically, through the Public Sector Contracting Platform (contrataciondelestado.es).
• On paper, at the General Registry of the Arteixo City Council.

Those opting for delivery by mail must provide proof regarding the date of posting and notify the contracting body on that same day, via email to contratacion@arteixo.org, of the submission of the proposal; without both requirements, the offer will not be admitted if it arrives after the deadline, and no postal proposal will be admitted after three calendar days have passed since the end of the deadline. Offers may be written in Spanish or Galician, the opening of the bids will be published in the Contractor Profile, and the bidder presenting the best offer must prove their economic-financial and technical solvency with the documentation from clause 11.D of the PCAP. An ordinary appeal for reversal and a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed against the procedure.

Second attempt after a first void tender

The immediate precedent is the announcement of the void declaration of the previous procedure, published in the BOP of October 21, 2026, under announcement number 2026/6736. In that call, the same conditions now repeated were maintained —demanial concession of the social center’s bar-cafeteria, minimum canon of 1.00 euro per year improvable upwards, open procedure, and economic offer as the sole criterion—, but the award was declared void due to a lack of admissible offers.

The new tender, therefore, reproduces the contract scheme without substantial changes in the starting price or the duration period, and leaves the decision to compete with a higher economic proposal to the interested parties.

Why it matters

The call opens a business opportunity for hoteliers and freelancers in the Arteixo area: the operation of a bar-cafeteria in municipal facilities with a starting canon of only 1 euro per year and a horizon of up to four years. The result of this second attempt will determine whether the Suevos social center finally has a functioning hospitality service, after more than a month without an awardee.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, no. 217, November 12, 2026, section I (Local Administration), pp. 1-2 (official reference: 2026/7307).