Inside she goes shopping for the police: handcuffs at 27 euros, shirts at 19, helmets at 300 …

For high speed boats, for uniforms, for building works, helmets, handcuffs, surveillance systems & mldr; The Ministry of the Interior, through the Civil Guard and the National Police, will admit this January offers from companies for contracts worth 76.9 million of euros. This is the sum of 30 tenders published in newsletters and the Public Sector Procurement Platform for one of the most invested starts of the year in the last decade.

The bulk of the orders ends their deadlines for admission of offers on January 10 and 17 for all types of supplies and services, from I think of the police dogs to reagents for criminal investigation laboratories.

Last Christmas Eve, the Official State Gazette published the announcement that it is one of the star contracts of this January. Until the 17th you can compete for providing the Civil Guard with uniforms worth 16,116,114 euros.

At 19 euros a shirt

Detailed spending chapters parade through the specifications of that millionaire contract. It foresees 453,711 euros in 5,922 shirts this year and as many in 2023, whether green or white, at an average of 19 euros each. Also note 45,400 socks black ties, at four euros a pair, or 6,222 green ties, at eight euros.

In terms of equipment, the Police also asks for offers, specifically 900 helmets for its agents, at an average of 315 euros each. The contract, of 285,000 euros before taxes, closes admissions on the 18th.

Eight days before, the Police will have received all the offers to acquire 6,000 wives with their holders, to replace those damaged with use. It’s 162,000 euros, at 27 euros per shackle.

The Civil Guard clothing takes other investment chapters this month, such as 89,900 euros for outdoor clothing and 420,000 euros planned for uniforms of the elite agents of the Security Reserve Group.

Millions in ships

This Three Kings Day ends the receipt of offers for the largest contract of the beginning of 2022: the management of ocean vessels of the Civil Guard: 29 million euros for four years of maintenance and governance of the boats Río Miño, Río Segura and Río Tajo, with which the coasts are monitored with an average of 3,600 hours of navigation per year.

The maritime branch of the Civil Guard accumulates the main amount of the month. On the 13th, your general management stops receiving offers for the maintenance of the power plants of its ships worth an estimated 10.7 million of euros. Three days before, on the 10th, the admission of tenders for optical sensors and maritime communications systems closes; they are 4,748,040 euros.

The Civil Guard fleet already made another important call on November 24, when the supply for two high-speed patrol boats and another two on average: 10.7 million for the Vigo firms Rodman Polyships and Aislamientos Térmicos de Galicia.

Hear, smell and look

One of the largest contracts of the Police will allocate 8.7 million euros to translators for your wiretapping. The offers are seen next January 11.

On the same day, the Economic and Technical Division of the National Police will receive proposals to buy feed. They are 985,500 euros to feed the police dogs this year and next.

And there is more when it comes to animals. This month the Civil Guard evaluates offers to buy “14 male chestnut horses, whole or neutered, between six and eight years & rdquor ;, says the contract, for 99,172 euros.

Scientific police laboratories also have a budget. This January material purchases are evaluated for DNA analysis with a value of 3.7 million euros, and on the 10th the last offers to rent a electronic microscope capable of displaying gunshot remnants. Leasing it this year and the next one costs 270,000 euros.

A week later, the Police closes the deadline for one of its newest tenders: insurance of civil liability for your drones; its 29,900 euros.

More than 200 million in cleaning

The construction, renovation and gardening works that are offered until this month of January total 4.6 million euros, and involve work in the Estremera, Valdemoro and El Pardo (Madrid), Arriondas and Luarca (Asturias) and Seville barracks, and the police complexes of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas and Canillas (Madrid).

All this cascade of tenders is preceded by a December that has also been key for millionaire concessions in the Interior. Two days before Christmas, the Headquarters of Economic Affairs of the Civil Guard awarded companies from all over the country 105.6 million euros in cleaning contracts of barracks and offices. On November 12, the Economic and Technical Division of the National Police Force awarded a similar contract, also divided into lots and distributed among dozens of companies, for 148.1 million.

Around Christmas, on December 21, the acquisition was also resolved, in renting and for 25.2 million, 1,300 cars to circulate camouflaged on streets and highways. Three leasing firms, Alphabet Spain, Arval and Leaseplan, have won the contract.

But these are ordinary tenders, without European support. More are coming, 249 that will appear in the newsletters; and more numerous: Interior will have this year and the next one of another important flow that flows from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. It will be spent, for example, removing gasoline cars. The program includes the acquisition of 5,882 electric cars before the end of 2023. It will cost 171.9 million euros … and another 15.8 million to install their charging points.

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The main lines of expenditure of these European funds were presented by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, on November 30 at the small Civil Guard barracks in the Madrid town of Chinchón.

The aim is to increase the energy efficiency of barracks like that, police stations and prisons with 125 works for 196 million euros, half the budget. Interior also wants to change 8,210 bulbs of its buildings and shooting galleries, for another 8.5 million. Total, 396 million euros to lower the carbon footprint of State Security.