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Metro do Porto, S.A.
Live now: 1 tender, largest Metro do Porto eight-year light metro subconcession ($500m–1bn); holds relationships with FCC, Ferrovial, CRRC.
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- Type
- Metro corporation — public company owning and expanding the Porto metropolitan light metro; operation is subconcessioned
- Market · Region
- European Union · Portugal
- Open tenders
- 1
- Technology areas
- Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, AI inspection
Owns and extends Porto light metro (70 km, six lines); Ruby line and circular section EUR 614.5m works.
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Owns and extends the Porto light metro — 70 km, six lines, 85 stations of which 15 are underground, 8.3 km of tunnel, 120 vehicles, seven municipalities, 89.8 million validations in 2024 — and buys its works, vehicles, rail and systems. Its live programme is the Ruby line (Casa da Música–Santo Ovídio, a EUR 379.5m works contract), the circular line section Praça da Liberdade–Casa da Música (EUR 235m) and an eight-year subconcession of the whole system worth an estimated EUR 465.1m, out to tender until 21 October 2026.
- Type
- Metro corporation — public company owning and expanding the Porto metropolitan light metro; operation is subconcessioned
- Where
- Portugal · Porto
- Programmes
- Connecting Europe Facility, Recovery and Resilience Facility
- Technology areas
- Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, AI inspection
Who holds what here
- awarded ArcelorMittal — Supply of Vignole and grooved rail for the Metro do Porto network, contract 16 March 2026; the same notice's estimate field reads and does not reconcile (active · since 2026-03-16)
- awarded CRRC — Supply and maintenance of rolling stock for the Metro do Porto network, contract 26 March 2025 (active · since 2025-03-26)
- awarded FCC — Ruby line works, Casa da Música–Santo Ovídio, at award and after modification, with Alberto Couto Alves and Contratas y Ventas (active · since 2023-11-03)
- awarded Ferrovial — Circular line works, Praça da Liberdade–Casa da Música, at award and after modification, with Alberto Couto Alves (active · since 2020-11-04)
- Contract detail and values (4)$100–500m · $25–100mIn the European Union edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (5)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — circular line works, Praça da Liberdade–Casa da Música; contract modification notice (published 2026-08-05 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply, delivery, transport and unloading of Vignole rail and grooved rail; awarded to ArcelorMittal España, S.A.; contract award notice (published 2026-03-18 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply and maintenance of rolling stock for the Metro do Porto network; awarded to Portugal CRRC Tangshan Rolling Stock, Unipessoal, Lda. and CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.; contract award notice (published 2025-03-31 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply and maintenance of rolling stock; contract modification notice restating the total and the 26 March 2025 contract (published 2026-07-21 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — Linha Rubi works, Casa da Música–Santo Ovídio; contract modification notice (published 2026-06-08 · checked 2026-09-12)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metro do Porto eight-year light metro subconcession | Open | $500m–1bn | Closes October 2026 |
| Metro do Porto Ruby line works | In execution | $100–500m | Awarded November 2023 |
| Metro do Porto circular line works | In execution | $100–500m | Awarded November 2020 |
| Metro do Porto Vignole and grooved rail | In execution | $25–100m | Awarded March 2026 |
| Metro do Porto rolling stock supply maintenance | In execution | $25–100m | Awarded March 2025 |
| Metro do Porto Ruby line signalling system | Cancelled | $25–100m |
Withheld in the free surface
- Procurement structure
- Published contacts (5)
- Award history (5)
- Entry path
- Portals (3)
Full detail withheld: 5 fields. In the European Union edition · See a fully open example
12 sources · all primary
- ● Metro do Porto · Metro em números — 70 km network, 8.3 km of tunnel across 5 tunnels, 6 lines, 120 vehicles, 85 stations of which 15 underground, 7 municipalities, 89.8 million validations in 2024 (checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Metro do Porto · Contactos — registered office, switchboard 225 081 000, metro@metrodoporto.pt, press desk imprensa@metrodoporto.pt (checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Metro do Porto · Concursos — Metro do Porto's own live-tender page (checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — international public tender for the subconcession of the Porto metropolitan light metro system, eight years; contract notice with a 21 October 2026 deadline (published 2026-07-27 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — Linha Rubi works, Casa da Música–Santo Ovídio; contract modification notice (published 2026-06-08 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — circular line works, Praça da Liberdade–Casa da Música; contract modification notice (published 2026-08-05 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the Line H Rubi signalling system (trackside and onboard); award notice recording the procedure closed with no winner (published 2025-12-23 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — re-issued tender for the Line H Rubi signalling system; award notice recording the procedure closed with no winner (published 2026-07-23 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply and maintenance of rolling stock for the Metro do Porto network; awarded to Portugal CRRC Tangshan Rolling Stock, Unipessoal, Lda. and CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.; contract award notice (published 2025-03-31 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply and maintenance of rolling stock; contract modification notice restating the total and the 26 March 2025 contract (published 2026-07-21 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Metro do Porto — supply, delivery, transport and unloading of Vignole rail and grooved rail; awarded to ArcelorMittal España, S.A.; contract award notice (published 2026-03-18 · checked 2026-09-12)
- ● BASE — Portal Base dos Contratos Públicos · BASE, the Portuguese public-contracts portal operated by IMPIC, where contracts let under the Código dos Contratos Públicos are published (checked 2026-09-12)
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