Research Areas

Ivie’s 2020 IvieLAB report on the effects of centralizing government services in Madrid, Spain’s capital city, and the 2021 report on the presence of Valencian companies in public procurement procedures of the state public sector (SPE) have shown the existence of a shift towards companies that have their headquarters in Madrid: 60% of the SPE tenders of the contracting bodies located in the capital city awarded to Spanish companies have their headquarts in Madrid, raising the percentage to 65% if the amount of the contracts is considered. On the other hand, the 2021 report shows that the tenders of Valencian companies in public procurement markets are less than what the productive fabric of the region would allow.

These results make it advisable to monitor this issue also for the specific case of tenders financed with European recovery funds, due to the opportunity they represent. With this objective in mind, the report will analyze the following issues: the weight of companies from the Valencian Region in the awards made in the public procurement of Spanish public administrations, in terms of number of tenders and amount of the contract; disaggregated information by size of the company, branches of activity and provinces; type of contract; characteristics of the awarded companies; comparison of the weight of Valencian companies with the rest of the Spanish regions in national tenders , etc.