Sagunto puts out tender for 97 smart traffic cameras across 43 locations
Sagunto City Council has issued a public tender worth €549,108 to install 97 artificial-intelligence traffic cameras at 43 points across the municipality, with bids due by 30 September.
Sagunto's local police force (Policía Local) is set to gain a major boost in traffic monitoring after Sagunto City Council opened a tender this week for a large technology contract: installing, launching and maintaining 97 smart surveillance cameras spread across 43 strategic points throughout the municipality. The contract will be awarded for up to €549,108, VAT included, and interested companies have until 23:59 on 30 September to submit their bids. The initial contract term is two years, with the option to extend it up to a maximum of four, meaning the same company could end up running the network for much of this decade.
The rollout combines two types of devices. First, 43 fixed dome cameras, designed for general traffic control at the city's main junctions and roads. Second, 54 fixed bullet cameras fitted with automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR), a system that identifies vehicles automatically and is already widely used by other police forces, car parks and toll motorways for control and charging purposes. Combined, the two camera types add up to the 97 devices that will join the municipal network, spread across the 43 points the Council considers strategic because of their traffic volume or their significance for road safety.
Beyond the hardware installed on the streets, the contract also covers a new control room for the Local Police's coordination centre, known by its Spanish acronym CECOM (Centro de Coordinación Municipal). The room will be fitted with a large video wall, a screen made up of a 3x2 grid of 55-inch panels, from which officers will be able to monitor incoming information from every control point in real time. The winning company will also have to integrate and maintain, starting in December 2027, the 30 traffic cameras the Council already operates today, so that the whole network is finally unified under a single management system and a single working interface for officers.
Councillor for Local Police María José Carrera presented the tender as an important step to strengthen road safety and improve traffic management in the municipality, stressing that a city with Sagunto's size and needs requires technology tools to match. According to the councillor, this is not simply about putting up cameras in public spaces, but about launching a full network of control points that can provide constant information to manage traffic better and, at certain locations, read number plates automatically. Carrera argued that the new technology will give officers more information to work with and a greater capacity to anticipate incidents on the municipality's busiest roads.
For residents, the project means a significant expansion of surveillance coverage across the main roads in and out of the municipality, as well as internal routes, which in practice should translate into a faster response to accidents, traffic jams or driving offences, along with tighter checks on vehicles without proper documentation or involved in other road incidents. The expansion also comes just a day after the Council announced five new vehicles for the Local Police fleet, which together point to a simultaneous boost in staff and mobile resources as well as fixed surveillance infrastructure for the force.
Because the tender covers the whole municipality rather than a single district, the new camera network will not be concentrated in one urban core: both Sagunto's old town, known locally as Ciutat Vella, and the coastal district of Puerto de Sagunto fall within the same municipal territory, so the 43 control points are expected to be shared between both areas depending on traffic intensity and the routes residents use most often in daily life. At €549,108, this contract ranks among the biggest technology contracts the Council has awarded this year in the area of public safety, well above the usual cost of smaller municipal tenders.
Once the bidding period closes on 30 September, the Council will need to assess the proposals submitted by all interested companies before formally awarding the contract to a winner. Until then, the project remains subject to the standard public procurement process used for this kind of large municipal infrastructure, which in this case will determine how quickly the new surveillance network becomes operational across all 43 planned locations. According to El Periódico de Aquí — Sagunto / Camp de Morvedre.