ANCI, the association that groups non-listed construction companies, has urged this Tuesday to update price revision systems due to the sharp increase in construction costs derived from international crises in recent years, including the most recent one in the Middle East.
During its General Assembly, the employers' association has called for "the reality of costs" to be incorporated into public procurement to guarantee "efficient and sustainable" execution of infrastructure. The organization calculates that since 2020, construction costs have increased on average by around 30%, to which "occasional but very significant" spikes linked to crises such as the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the conflict in Iran are added.
In this context, ANCI asks that tenders be "always" convened with budgets aligned with real market prices, that the price revision system be reformed so that it "becomes again a mandatory mechanism capable of transferring the real evolution of costs" —including labor costs— to contracts, and that progress be made towards a public procurement model in which "quality has a balanced weight with price" and "the submission of abnormally low offers is strictly controlled."
The association has also "positively" valued the investment effort made by administrations in recent years —in 2025, public works tendering exceeded 35 billion euros, "practically doubling" the figure for 2020—, although it has warned that spending is "highly concentrated in certain areas" and an "investment deficit" persists in infrastructures considered essential, such as hydraulic ones.
Likewise, ANCI has advocated for "efficient public procurement based on competition, quality, and equal opportunities," for which it calls for promoting greater competition in public purchasing processes.
In particular, the association deems it "essential" that the design of tenders limit large contracts "as much as possible," that the absence of "unjustified barriers" in the tender documents be guaranteed, and that the open procedure be maintained as the ordinary method of award.
ANCI's General Assembly, held this Tuesday, concluded with the intervention of the Secretary General of Land Transport of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Rocío Báguena.