Madrid tenders the demolition of the old Puerta de Hierro for 8.8 million

The Health Procurement Agency of the Community of Madrid has put out to tender the demolition works of the former Puerta de Hierro Hospital, as part of the comprehensive renovation that will convert the site into a functional recovery center and a hospital-residential unit for patients with ALS. The call is formalized by a resolution dated September 17, 2026, from the agency’s CEO, José Nieves González, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid no. 231, dated September 28, 2026, in the announcements section of the Ministry of Health (reference BOCM-20260928-38, page 253).

The contracting authority is the Madrid Health Service through the Health Procurement Agency of the Community of Madrid (NIF V70797667), located at Gran Vía, no. 30, 28013 Madrid, with the contractor profile available on the Public Procurement Portal of the Community of Madrid. The file is processed as a works contract, without division into lots and without the admission of variants, with an execution period of twelve months.

An 8.84 million contract and twelve months of works

The estimated value of the contract amounts to 7,309,161.82 euros, a figure that coincides with the net amount of the base tender budget. The published economic breakdown is as follows:

• Net amount: 7,309,161.82 euros.
• VAT: 1,534,923.98 euros.
• Total amount: 8,844,085.80 euros.

The tender is identified by reference number C14935 and file number PA OBR 04/2026 (A/OBR-002323/2026). The object is classified under CPV code 45110000-1 (demolition work of buildings and earthmoving) and the main location corresponds to NUTS code ES300. The contract is not linked to projects funded by European Union funds.

Open procedure and award criteria

The processing is ordinary and the procedure is open, with a plurality of criteria according to the characteristics table of the specifications. The planned weighting distributes the score between price and qualitative aspects:

• Price: up to 51 points.
• Qualitative criteria: up to 49 points.

Proposals are submitted exclusively by electronic means through the electronic bidding system of the Public Procurement Portal, in two envelopes: envelope no. 1 with the administrative documentation and envelope no. 3 with the economic proposal and the documentation for criteria evaluable by formulas. Electronic invoicing is accepted, but not electronic orders, and offers must be written in Spanish.

Deadlines, opening, and appeal process

The schedule set in the announcement is as follows:

• Receipt of bids: until October 19, 2026, at 23:59:00 hours.
• Opening of the economic bid and formula-based criteria: October 28, 2026, at 11:00 hours, in a non-public act.
• Mandatory bid maintenance: two months.

A special appeal in procurement matters may be filed against the call for tenders before the Administrative Procurement Tribunal of the Community of Madrid, located at Plaza de Chamberí, no. 8, 5th floor, 28010 Madrid, within a period of 15 business days. A contentious-administrative appeal may also be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Madrid, at General Castaños street, no. 1, 28001 Madrid, within a period of two months. The announcement was sent on September 17, 2026.

The operation directly affects the Madrid construction sector, which has three weeks to prepare bids for a contract of nearly nine million euros, and anticipates the transformation of a historic hospital site into a specific healthcare resource for ALS patients and functional recovery, two areas with growing demand in Madrid’s public health system.

Source: Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, no. 231, of September 28, 2026, section I.D (Announcements, Ministry of Health), page 253 (official reference: BOCM-20260928-38).