The Provincial Council of Teruel tenders the water cycle for 148 local entities

The Plenary of the Provincial Council of Teruel agreed on October 28, 2026, to accept the management entrustments and the participation in the specific joint procurement procedure for services linked to the integrated water cycle of 148 local entities in the province. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel no. 218, dated November 13, 2026, with the official reference 2026-3389, in the Local Administration section. The list comprises 147 city councils and the minor local entity of Cuevas de Cañart, detailed in Annex I.

The plenary agreement comes after the corporation approved, in a session on July 29, 2026, the model management entrustment agreement for the specific joint procurement of technical services linked to the integrated water cycle for the 2027-2032 period, aimed at municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, along with the voluntary procedure for incorporation into the provincial AGUA 2026 system (file 4711/2026). That agreement was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel no. 187, dated September 30, 2026, with the reference 2026-2829.

Purpose of the entrustments and distribution of responsibilities

The purpose of the entrustments is the material and technical actions for the integration of municipal demand, the preparation and processing of the common phase, and the coordination of the specific joint procurement. The announcement is based on the formula in Article 11 of Law 40/2015, of October 1, and Article 31 of Law 9/2017, of November 8, on Public Sector Contracts.

The Provincial Council emphasizes that the ownership and responsibility for municipal services remain with the entrusting local entities, such that the provincial body acts as a central purchasing body and does not assume the provision of the service.

The 148 entities of Annex I

Annex I identifies the local entities included in the acceptance agreement of October 28, 2026, ordered alphabetically and numbered from 1 to 148. Among them are, among others:

• Andorra, Alcorisa, Albalate del Arzobispo, and Alcalá de la Selva
• Albarracín, Cantavieja, Castellote, and Mas de las Matas
• Mora de Rubielos, Mosqueruela, Sarrión, and Valdealgorfa
• Villastar, Visiedo, Vinaceite, and Urrea de Gaén
• The minor local entity of Cuevas de Cañart

The document closes the list with the explicit count: 148 local entities, 147 city councils, and one minor local entity.

Individual formalization and Annex II

The framework agreement for the formalization of these entrustments was approved by the provincial Plenary in the session of July 29, 2026, and its text, along with the approved annexes, is incorporated as Annex II of the announcement by reproduction of the document identified with the secure verification code 76DPKCJFZDRLYJ5CYYX7MFJR4.

The individual formalization of each entrustment through the signing of the corresponding agreement, as well as its effectiveness, shall be subject to the twelfth clause of the framework agreement and Article 11.3.b) of Law 40/2015. The bulletin warns that the list of municipalities and the reference amounts appearing in the original annexes of the provincial model do not replace the list of accepted entities appearing in Annex I.

The announcement was signed in Teruel on November 9, 2026, by the president of the Provincial Council of Teruel, Joaquín Pascual Juste Sanz.

The operation turns the provincial body into the central purchasing agency for water for a large part of the province and unifies the contracting of technical services for the integral cycle for hundreds of rural centers into a single procedure. For the included city councils, the agreement entails delegating the processing of the contracts while maintaining ownership of the service and responsibility toward the residents, while the formalization schedule remains pending the signing of each individual agreement.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel, no. 218, November 13, 2026, Local Administration, page 2 (official reference: 2026-3389).