Nine suppliers have been awarded contracts worth a combined 20.1 million euros to deliver 649 new vehicles to Portugal's National Republican Guard (GNR) and Public Security Police (PSP), with all vehicles due to be handed over by the end of the year.
The international public tender was opened in October 2025 to acquire the vehicles for the two forces. Fourteen contracts have now been finalised, and companies that fail to meet the year-end deadline face penalties for every day of delay.
The process was split into 45 lots to cover different segments of the fleet and a wide range of operational categories, each with its own technical specifications. The 'Two Wheels' category covers motorcycles of various engine sizes. 'Patrol and Line' includes light cars of various ranges and SUV models in both 4x2 and 4x4 versions.
Vans, trucks and buses included
The 'Logistics and Cargo' category covers cargo vans, light commercial vehicles with raised roofs, 4x4 double-cab pickup trucks and heavy vans. The 'Collective Transport' category requires 4x2 heavy goods vehicles and passenger buses with capacities ranging from 22 to more than 41 seats.
The largest single award, worth 5.342 million euros, went to SIVA. Its contract includes 62 'lower medium' light passenger vehicles, 49 light SUVs in 4x2 or 4x4 configuration, and six light cargo vans.
Price carried 80 percent of the decision
Companies were able to bid for any of the 45 lots, with contracts awarded based on price, weighted at 80 percent, and quality, weighted at 20 percent.
The tender was originally announced by Margarida Blasco, who was Minister of Internal Administration at the time, before the government collapsed in March 2025. The process resumed five months after the early legislative elections of 18 May, and on 20 October, under the new minister, Maria Lucia Amaral, it was published in the Diario da Republica, Portugal's official state gazette.
The GNR is Portugal's militarised security force, responsible mainly for rural and lower-density areas, while the PSP is a civilian police force that operates chiefly in cities and larger towns. Both fall under the Ministry of Internal Administration and together form the backbone of Portugal's public security system.
Fossil fuels still dominate the fleet
The vast majority of the new fleet will continue to run on fossil fuels. The tender set aside a specific lot of fully electric vehicles for the GNR, with a budget of 375,000 euros, while hybrid vehicles were allocated a larger sum of 514,000 euros. More than 19 million euros was channelled into traditional combustion vehicles running on diesel and petrol, meaning electric and hybrid models accounted for less than 5 percent of the total budget. Operational requirements were cited as the reason for this split.
Eight contracts fell through
Eight planned contracts, for which the Ministry of Internal Administration was the contracting authority, could not be signed because no proposals were submitted or because the proposals received were excluded. That information comes from the Portal BASE, the platform that centralises data on all Portuguese public contracts.
Among the companies awarded the 45 lots are well-known names in the vehicle industry, including Toyota, Iveco, Man, Yamaha and Honda. Given the financial and technical demands of the tender, only manufacturers and importers with strong logistical capacity were able to compete.
