Central Public Procurement of Intermunicipal Community Medio Tejo (CC-CIMT)

The Intermunicipal Community of Medio Tejo is an association of 13 municipalities from Medio Tejo region. The CC-CIMT was set up with the aim of developing a common electronic purchasing system for the Municipalities to obtain financial / procedural savings. It is a centralised trading and contracting system for the acquisition of a standardised set of goods/services. This supra-municipal level approach obliges companies to adopt a strategy of digital transformation and adapting to more agile procurement processes wider including the adoption of framework agreements, facilitating the procedures developed by the acceding entities and promoting free and transparent access for companies.

For companies, the CC-CIMT has addressed the following benefits:
-The public procurement procedure is faster;
-Standardisation of procedures between contracting entities;
-Prior knowledge of joint negotiations beforehand;
-Absence of costs access to or use of solutions for public procurement;
-Free and cost-free access to the parts of the contracting procedures.
Company service providers must establish digital procurement procedures to comply with requirements from framework agreements in terms of timelines, prices, services quality, among others.

The CC-CIMT is an opportunity for public authorities/companies adopt competences in the area of electronic acquisitions and public procurement at large scale, presenting itself as fundamental role for the region and its stakeholders.