Viladecans tenders the concession for the home care service with social clauses

The Local Governing Board of the Viladecans City Council, in an ordinary session on November 4, 2026, agreed to call for a harmonized open procedure for the award of the concession contract for the home care service (SAD) in the municipality. The agreement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona (BOPB) on November 9, 2026, with the official reference CVE 202610167697, and directly affects dependent persons cared for at home and the entities and companies providing the service.

The SAD is one of the municipal social services with the widest scope, and the new contract comes with a set of conditions that the local government explicitly links to social and environmental objectives. The published document is an announcement from the Government Area of Internal Affairs and Municipal Resource Management, through the Public Procurement Department, and carries the internal file identifiers SPF/AGI/Contractació/2026/37 and 01/2026/C00021.

Procedure and processing

The Local Governing Board declared the file as ordinary processing and called for the harmonized open procedure, the route that procurement regulations reserve for higher-volume contracts and which requires European publicity. In the same session, the documents governing the tender were initially approved:

• The specific administrative clauses document.
• The technical specifications document.
• The feasibility study of the concession.

The chosen modality is a service concession, not an ordinary service contract, which transfers the operation of the service to the awardee under municipal control.

One month of public information

The specifications and the feasibility study are submitted for public information for one month, with an announcement in the BOPB and the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), so that interested parties may submit allegations. If this period passes without allegations, the documents will be definitively approved, a circumstance that will be accredited by administrative certification from the Corporate Secretary.

While the process lasts, the documentation is available to bidders at the Contractor Profile of the Viladecans City Council, accessible from the Public Procurement Services Platform of the Generalitat. The announcement is signed by Rosa Cañisà Abancó, Deputy Mayor of Public Procurement and Assets, dated November 5, 2026.

Sustainable procurement and labor insertion

The object of the contract expressly incorporates two families of clauses:

• Measures to promote the hiring of people with particular difficulties in integrating into the labor market.
• Sustainable public procurement criteria in the execution of the service.

These conditions are added to the healthcare provision itself and condition the offer of third-sector companies and the usual SAD contractors, who must prove compliance with these commitments.

A service with recurring monthly billing

The relevance of the contract is also measured by the volume of billing generated by the service. The BOPB of October 20, 2026, published the delegated councilor’s decree no. 5265/2026, of October 8, which approves the list of SAD fees corresponding to the month of September 2026 (reference SAD 9/2026, CVE 202610152842):

• 109 receipts included in the list.
• 14,658.86 euros total amount.
• Legal basis: the general ordinance of public prices and the public price of the service approved by the Plenary.

The same decree states that the supporting documentation remains at the Social Rights Area, the area that reports monthly on the effective provision of the service.

Impact on users and the sector

The tender sets the framework for the Viladecans SAD for the coming years and does so with labor and environmental requirements that may increase the cost of bids but also improve the conditions of the staff who attend to dependent people in their homes. For users and families, the one-month public information process is the only formal window to question the specifications before they are definitively approved; for companies, the tender calendar is already open in the Contractor Profile.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, November 9, 2026, Local Administration, p. 1 (official reference: CVE 202610167697).