Consejería de Vivienda, Transportes e Infraestructuras is bringing a major Madrid transport extension to market as part of the city’s continuing expansion of public infrastructure. The Valdebebas project sits in a different commercial category from the buyer’s routine notices, linking civil engineering, rail systems, construction capacity and long-term delivery risk in a single opportunity.
KEY NUMBERS
The notice covers construction of the extension of the Madrid Metro network to the Valdebebas neighbourhood. It was published on 2026-08-14 and closes on 2026-09-21, giving potential bidders a defined route into a large public transport works contract. The stated figure is an advertised value, not an awarded value, so it describes the opportunity put to market rather than the eventual contract outcome.
The buyer issued 42 other notices in the relevant period, with a median notice value of 1062615 EUR. Against that reference point, the Valdebebas figure is 822 times larger. The median is useful here because it shows the scale of a typical notice without allowing an unusually large project to pull the benchmark upwards. Framework ceilings are excluded, so the comparison concerns the notices covered by the stated figures.
The value comparison places the Valdebebas notice above the buyer’s next-largest listed opportunity, the Madrid Metro Line 11 extension at 554204701 EUR. The Valdebebas contract is also 1.1 times the value of everything else combined in the comparison. For businesses, that separation signals a procurement mechanism in which a single capital project can dominate a buyer’s advertised activity while leaving the ordinary notice pattern largely unchanged.
| Notice | Published | Value |
|---|---|---|
| El objeto del contrato consiste en la construcción de la amp | 2026-08-14 | 873,292,500 EUR |
| Construcción de ampliación de la línea 11 del metro de Madri | 2026-04-01 | 554,204,701 EUR |
| El objeto del contrato consiste en la dirección de obra hast | 2026-08-14 | 52,158,126 EUR |
| Obras de construcción del Tercer carril en la Carretera M-60 | 2026-04-16 | 31,531,061 EUR |
| El objeto de este contrato son las actuaciones de mantenimie | 2026-07-29 | 30,298,069 EUR |
| El objeto del contrato consiste en la dirección de obra hast | 2026-09-07 | 27,148,499 EUR |
A single capital project can dominate a buyer’s advertised activity without changing its ordinary notice pattern.
WHY IT MATTERS
An advertised 873292500 EUR contract calls for a different market response from a routine notice valued around the buyer’s 1062615 EUR median. Bidders can read the gap as a signal to assess capacity, delivery scope and consortium needs separately from the buyer’s normal flow of opportunities. The figure is not an award and, by itself, says nothing about propriety or the eventual winner.
Data: Otnox — live procurement intelligence across 56 markets. Basis: 43 distinct priced notices published by Consejería de Vivienda, Transportes e Infraestructuras in the last 180 days, values as advertised, 2026-03-13..2026-09-09. Reproducible in the Otnox platform.
