Vilasantar opens the tender for a class B taxi license for passengers

The Vilasantar City Council has opened a public tender to grant a municipal taxi license, a class B passenger car license intended for passenger service and without a taximeter. The call was approved by Mayor’s Resolution on November 6, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña (BOP) number 218, Friday, November 13, 2026, under announcement number 2026/7340. Interested parties have 15 business days from the date of publication to submit their applications for participation.

The call affects a highly regulated sector, in which the municipal license is only one part of the enabling title. According to the taxi ordinance of Betanzos published in this same gazette (BOP number 199, October 19, 2026), to provide taxi services, it is necessary to obtain both the license granted by the city council through a public tender and the interurban authorization processed by the competent transport body of the Xunta de Galicia. Both titles are linked, and their acquisition is carried out through the coordinated procedure regulated in Article 16 of Law 4/2013, of May 30, on public transport of persons in passenger vehicles in Galicia.

What is being tendered

• A single municipal taxi license, under a competitive bidding regime.
• Category: class B passenger car license.
• Service: provision of passenger services without a taximeter.
• The license includes the corresponding authorizations that enable the provision of interurban public services.
• The award procedure is a tender, open to all persons who meet the requirements.

Deadlines, documentation, and submission

• Offer deadline: 15 business days from the publication of the announcement in the BOP, which places the closing of applications in early December 2026.
• Documentation: The specific administrative clauses governing the tender are available to interested parties on the municipal website and in the council’s Secretariat department.
• Approval of the file: Mayor’s Resolution of November 6, 2026.
• Date and signature of the announcement: Vilasantar, November 9, 2026, by the mayor-president, Fernando Javier Pérez Fernández.
• Official reference of the announcement: 2026/7340.

Regulatory framework and sector movement

The Vilasantar tender occurs within a context of regulatory review of the service in the province’s municipalities. This same gazette published in October the final approval of the regulatory ordinance for the taxi service of Betanzos (file 2025/G013/000003), agreed upon by the Plenary on September 29, 2026, and in August that of Ames (file GD 2448/2026), processed following an allegation presented by several taxi drivers.

These texts refer to Decree 103/2018, of September 13, which approves the Regulation of the Law on public transport of persons in tourism vehicles of Galicia, and establish the framework within which municipal competitions operate: creation of new licenses following a mobility study and a binding report from the competent general directorate, limits on ownership, and periodic visa renewal of licenses. In procedures from other councils, preference has been given to seniority as a taxi driver and previous dedication to the profession, in addition to the adaptation of the vehicle for people with reduced mobility.

The relevance of the announcement lies in the fact that Vilasantar is a small municipality, where a single license can determine the actual existence of the passenger service for residents who do not have their own transport. For professionals in the sector, the competition is the legal route to access an enabling title within a specific municipal area; for the residents, the award translates into the possibility of having a taxi service within the municipal boundaries and connecting it with the regional hubs.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, no. 218, November 13, 2026, Local Administration (Vilasantar), p. 1 (official reference: 2026/7340).