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Social Democratic councillors reviewed a year in office and pointed out flaws in public tender instructions, including a 4.6 million euro direct award that was “completely wrong”.
The municipality launched two public tenders totaling 2.6 million euros, and out of the seven projects proposed, it only received a bid for one contract worth 559,568 euros.
When Luís Neves headed the Judiciary Police, DST began winning contracts at the institution. Now, with Luís Neves in the Government, the Braga-based giant has just been selected to install satellite communications in 2,566 parishes and 308 municipalities across the country.
PJ guarantees that Construbarcelos had no legal impediments to participate in the tenders. The company signed 17 contracts worth 2.3 million euros.
Manipulated public tenders led the European Public Prosecutor's Office to charge four public officials — including a vice-rector — and complicit companies for violating competition rules.
Questions have been raised over the rather bizarre situation in which a relatively new marketing company (formed in September last year) clinched an important state tender by putting in a The post Questions as company “based in parish council space” wins tender with bargain basement price appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The Government expects to spend up to 40 million euros on work incentives for the future Single Social Benefit (PSU), which may also involve social work for young people with disabilities or oncological diseases. More than ten thousand local accommodation registrations have been cancelled and public tenders are no longer required to set a base price. See these...
Ricardo Filomeno Duarte Leitão Machado, married to the sister of the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro, made a fortune in Angola in just a few years, from where he also brought a major conflict with the country's government. He is one of 16 defendants in Operation Control Tower, which gained new momentum this week with new searches over suspected corruption in public tenders for the rental of firefighting helicopters. Recall here the Expresso da Manhã episode by Paulo Baldaia from December 2025, dedicated to the 'new owner of a bit of all this'.
The Public Prosecutor's Office and the Judiciary Police suspect an alleged kickback scheme that may have led to payments of around 100,000 euros. A Castros administrator controlled competing companies in public tenders.
In Operation Lumen, at least six entities were named as defendants: the company Castros and four other firms that were allegedly controlled by the former but held in the names of front men.
A former president and vice-president are suspected of operating a scheme between 2014 and 2022 in which they favoured friends and family in hundreds of public tenders.
