Direção-Geral do Tribunal de Contas

How to win their contracts

Measured from Direção-Geral do Tribunal de Contas'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 8 of their tenders.
• They publish about 3.1 tenders a month, measured over 60 months of history.
• Half of their 176 awarded contracts are worth €14.1k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in postal and telecommunications services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies.
• Their most frequent suppliers are CLARANET II SOLUTIONS, S.A. (9), Claranet Portugal, S.A. (3), EXPOVIAGENS-VIAGENS E TURISMO, LDA (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.