Município de Cascais buys services for the buildings and facilities used by residents, pupils and public-sector staff. Cleaning procurement connects routine site operations with a broad supplier market, while the notice’s scope reaches municipal installations, school equipment and health centres under the municipality’s management. That combination makes the contract a useful case for reading scale before considering an opportunity.
KEY NUMBERS
The notice, published on 2026-09-18, carries an advertised value of EUR 16680312. That is a tender ceiling or stated procurement value, not an awarded amount: the facts do not identify a winning supplier, and the closing date is not published. Businesses assessing the opportunity therefore need to separate the size announced by the buyer from any later contracted spend.
The gap with Município de Cascais’s usual notices is unusually wide. Across 100 other notices in the relevant period, the median notice was EUR 19800, while the next-largest listed notice was the purchase of electricity at EUR 6657147. The cleaning procurement is also valued at 0.9 of everything else combined, showing that its scale is not explained simply by adding routine notices together.
The comparison places the cleaning notice against the buyer’s median and its next-largest procurement, rather than treating the advertised value as an award. It shows a procurement concentrated in one unusually large requirement: EUR 16680312 against a median of EUR 19800 and an electricity notice of EUR 6657147. Framework ceilings are excluded, so the comparison concerns the notices covered by the stated figures.
| Notice | Published | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Aquisição de serviços de Limpeza para as Instalações Municip | 2026-09-18 | 16,680,312 EUR |
| Aquisição de energia elétrica em regime de Mercado Livre | 2026-07-29 | 6,657,147 EUR |
| Empreitada de requalificação e manutenção de infraestruturas | 2026-07-22 | 1,435,397 EUR |
| Empreitada de Iluminação Cénica de Rotundas no Concelho de C | 2026-07-28 | 747,948 EUR |
| Requalificação de Passadeiras e Sinalização Viária no Concel | 2026-07-22 | 647,986 EUR |
| Requalificação de Passadeiras e Sinalização Viária no Concel | 2026-07-22 | 641,957 EUR |
For suppliers, the procurement mechanism matters as much as the headline value. A large notice can bundle work across municipal, education and health sites, creating a different route to market from several smaller purchases. The notice title identifies the service scope, but businesses would need the tender documents to establish lots, service areas, contract terms, qualification conditions and how the advertised ceiling is expected to translate into call-offs or payment.
Cascais’s cleaning notice is an advertised value, not an award, and it sits 842 times above the buyer’s median notice.
WHY IT MATTERS
A large advertised value can change how suppliers assess capacity, coverage and entry costs, but it does not by itself show what will be awarded or spent. For this Cascais notice, the useful questions are how cleaning work is packaged across sites, whether suppliers can bid for defined portions, and how the stated ceiling relates to actual orders. The comparison also shows why advertised values should be read alongside a buyer’s normal notice scale.
Data: Otnox — live procurement intelligence across 56 markets. Basis: 101 distinct priced notices published by Município de Cascais in the last 180 days, values as advertised, 2026-03-28..2026-09-24. Reproducible in the Otnox platform.
