The Spanish eProcurement Plataform (Plataforma de Contratación del Estado) is the virtual "marketplace" where buyers from the Spanish public sector and suppliers can meet to make business.

Contracting authorities from the central administration are obliged to publish their buyer profile on PLACE including all the information about their awarding processes. Also, an increasing number of municipal authorities are voluntarily publishing their buyer profile.

All the services offered by PLACE are completely free of charge.

The following services are offered to economic operators:

• General information about public procurement,
• Access to all the Buyer Profiles in the central administration, and other contracting, authorities that have  adhered voluntarily
• Search tools for business opportunities,
• Download of calls for tenders,
• Asking questions to the contracting authorities,
• Free subscriptions to business opportunities (e-mail, SMS, RSS),

 

The following services are offered to contracting authorities:

• Buyer profile publication fulfilling all the legal requirements,
• Time stamp of documents published on the Buyer Profile,
• Publication of notices in Official Journals,
• Answering questions,
• Notification of exclusion/admission of  the participants,
• Connection with contracting authorities back-office (B2B)

 

PLACE is based on the CODICE specifications. The documents interchanged between contracting authorities and economic operators follow the CODICE specifications. The data model is based on CODICE components.

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