Interior tenders electoral scrutiny system for 46 million

The Ministry of the Interior has opened a tender for the services of obtaining and provisional dissemination of scrutiny data for electoral processes and public consultations, with an estimated value of 46,064,980.50 euros and a duration of four years. The tender is being processed by the General Directorate of Interior Policy under file AM/ESCRUTINIO/01/2026 and is published in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado) no. 240, dated September 29, 2026, section V-A, pages 51045 to 51048 (official reference BOE-B-2026-31526).

A framework agreement for the entire electoral cycle

The contract is structured as a framework agreement for services, with an open procedure and no admission of variants, and covers the entire electoral cycle. According to the announcement, the objective includes the obtaining and provisional dissemination of results, support for the Electoral Boards, the development of a process website, and services relating to the final results.

The contracting authority is the General Directorate of Interior Policy, headquartered at Amador de los Ríos 7 (Madrid), and the declared main activity is public order and security. The reference CPV code is 72514000, corresponding to IT installation management services, and the main place of performance is ES300 (Madrid).

Figures, solvency, and award criteria

Estimated contract value: 46,064,980.50 euros.
Duration: 4 years, under a framework agreement regime.
Planned operators: a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5.
Award criteria: offered price, with a weighting of 70%, and technical aspects, with 30%.
Economic solvency: annual turnover of at least 17,250,000.00 euros in the best of the last three financial years.
Technical solvency: similar works for a cumulative annual amount equal to or greater than 8,100,000.00 euros in the year of highest execution.

Offers must be written in Spanish and may be submitted electronically, with electronic invoicing and payment admitted. The announcement also incorporates execution conditions regarding compliance with the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization and the contractor’s submission to national and European data protection regulations.

Tender calendar

The deadline for the receipt of offers or requests to participate ends at 12:00 PM on October 30, 2026. The opening of the bids is staggered in three acts:

Administrative envelope: November 4, 2026, at 10:00 AM.
Technical offer envelope: November 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM.
Economic offer envelope: December 18, 2026, at 10:00 AM, an indicative date as it depends on the conclusion of the technical offer audit by the National Cryptologic Center.

The announcement was sent to the Official Journal of the European Union on September 22, 2026, with the identifier 2026-000560221, and bears the signature of the director general, Carmen López García. A special appeal in procurement matters may be filed against the announcement and the specifications, within a period of 15 business days from its publication or notification.

Impact

This is one of the highest-value technological contracts linked to the electoral cycle: nearly 46.1 million euros over four years for the infrastructure that collects, processes, and disseminates the results of all calls for elections. The tender opens the door to technology companies specializing in critical systems and defines the rules of the service that will support the scrutiny and public information of the upcoming trips to the polls.

Source: Official State Gazette, no. 240, of September 29, 2026, section V-A, pp. 51045-51048 (official reference: BOE-B-2026-31526).