Comité de Contratación del Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO)

How to win their contracts

Measured from Comité de Contratación del Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 20 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 11 of their tenders.
• They publish about 4.2 tenders a month, measured over 3 months of history.
• Half of their 130 awarded contracts are worth €69.2k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores, S.L. (8), DEVOTEAM DRAGO S.A.U. (3), NTT DATA SPAIN, S.L.U. (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.