Public tender alerts
Public tender alerts by email, based on what your company does
Short answer
Adjudica emails you every morning at 7:00 the new Portuguese public tenders that match what your company does, read from the Diário da República (the official gazette) and Portal BASE (the portal where the State publishes public contracts).
Each alert has a match score from 0 to 100 with the reason, the maximum price, the days left to bid and the range where the winning price of similar tenders usually lands.
The profile starts from your company's tax number and the work, districts and values it already wins, so you don't have to pick CPV codes (the European classification of what the State buys).
By José BrandãoUpdated
Which public tender alerts do you get, and when?
Alerts follow the order of a tender: the new notice, changes to the documents, the deadlines and the result. Everything arrives in a single email a day and stays in the app's Inbox.
| Alert | When it arrives | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| New matches | In the morning email, at 7:00 | The new tenders that match your profile, with the score and the reason. |
| Bodies you follow | In the morning email | New tenders from a municipality, hospital or state company you chose to follow, even outside your areas. |
| Awarded without a tender | In the morning email, up to 5 | Contracts in your area, region and size awarded without a notice (by direct award or prior consultation), with the public body to contact. |
| Changed documents | In the morning email | Clarifications, new tender documents or an extended deadline in the tenders you saved. |
| Deadlines | 7, 3 and 1 day before | Bid submission with the cut-off time, the site visit and the end of the period for questions to the jury. |
| Result | When Portal BASE publishes the contract | Whether you won and, if not, who did. |
| Expiring documents | 15 days before | The certificates and company documents about to expire, sent to whoever manages the company. |
What does each tender alert bring?
Each tender in the email is ready for a decision, so you don't have to open the notice to know whether it is worth it.
The match score and the reason
Each tender has a score from 0 to 100 and a sentence saying why it suits you: the kind of work, the district, the value or the public body you follow. If the score is low, you see why straight away.
The maximum price and the likely price
You see the maximum price the public body will pay and, from contracts already signed in similar tenders, the range where the winning price will probably land and how far below the maximum to go.
How much time you have
«Closes in 9 days», «closes tomorrow»: the deadline is counted in days, with the submission date, so you can decide at once whether there is time to prepare a bid.
I'm in or I'm out
You answer in the email itself. I'm in moves the tender to your bids; I'm out removes it and sharpens the next matches.
How do you choose the tenders that reach you?
You start with the tax number. The contracts the company has already won on Portal BASE show the kinds of work, districts and values where it usually wins, and the profile comes from that. Then you adjust it: drop a district, add a kind of work, change the contract size. For building work, you can add the classes of your contractor's licence (alvará).
The profile learns from your decisions. Each I'm out sharpens the following days' matches, and the public bodies you follow always come in, even outside your areas.
The awarded without a tender alerts show contracts in your area awarded by direct award or prior consultation, the procedures where the public body invites companies directly. They tell you who buys what you do and who to introduce yourself to.
CPV code alerts or match alerts: what is the difference?
CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) is the European list of codes each public body uses to classify what it buys. A CPV code alert tells you when a notice comes out with the codes you picked. It works, but you have to get the codes right, and the same building job can be classified under different codes by different public bodies.
A match starts from what your company does and what it has already won. It combines the kind of work, the district, the value and the public bodies you follow, and gives you the reason for each tender. When a tender looks wrong to you, you mark I'm out and the profile corrects itself.
Notices are public and free: anyone can read them every day in the Diário da República and on Portal BASE. Adjudica reads them for you, picks the ones that suit your company and adds the price they are usually won at.
Why does every day count in a public tender?
The median time to submit bids was 14 days, across 21,644 notices in 2026. Whoever sees the notice a week late has half the time to read the documents, ask for clarifications and set a price.
42.2% of the 219,071 public contracts published on Portal BASE between 1 January and 17 Oct 2026 were direct awards (ajuste direto), with no public notice. Those contracts never produce a tender notice, which is why the alerts also show you contracts awarded without a tender in your area.
How do you start getting Adjudica's alerts?
Sign-up is by invitation. Tell us what your company does and where it works: we reply within 1 working day, set up the profile with you and show you the tenders that would reach you this week.
Want to know how Adjudica can help your company?
Tell us what you do and which tenders you usually go for. We reply within 1 working day, by email or phone, whichever you prefer.
Frequently asked questions
Do the public tender alerts arrive by email?
Yes. Matches arrive in an email at 7:00 in the morning, Lisbon time, and also stay in the app's Inbox, with everything that did not fit in the email. If you connect your calendar (Google, Apple or Outlook), the deadlines of the tenders you are bidding for show up there on their own.
How often do I get alerts?
One email a day, only on days when there is something new for you. It carries up to 5 tenders and each tender arrives once; the rest stay in the Inbox. Deadline reminders follow each bid's calendar: 7, 3 and 1 day before.
Can I choose regions and kinds of work?
Yes. In the profile you tick the kinds of work in plain words (for example construction work, cleaning or IT equipment), the districts where you work or the whole country, and the size of contracts you want. You can change the profile at any time and the next day's email follows it.
What if I don't know the CPV codes?
You don't need them. The profile starts from the tax number and the contracts the company has already won on Portal BASE, and kinds of work are picked by name. If the company has no public contracts yet, we set up the profile with you in 2 minutes. The CPV code guide explains the classification for anyone who wants to use it.
Can I get the tenders of one specific public body?
Yes. Follow a public body on its page (a municipality, a hospital, a university) and the new tenders it opens reach your email, even outside your areas. You can pause or unfollow whenever you like.
Can I pause or switch off the alerts?
Yes. In Settings › Alerts you switch the morning email on and off, and every email has a link to pause it. Each person on the team picks their own alerts.