Sagunto puts out tender for 97 AI traffic cameras at 43 locations
Sagunto has opened a competition to renew its traffic-monitoring network: 97 AI-enabled cameras at 43 locations across the municipality, under a 549,108-euro contract with bids due by 30 September.
Road safety is the driving force behind a new tender launched by Sagunto City Council: a complete overhaul of the municipal traffic-monitoring system, using technology capable of reading number plates and flagging incidents before they escalate. The contract, worth 549,108 euros including VAT, is now open for companies in the sector to submit proposals.
What's actually being tendered is a full package: purchase, installation, integration with the existing municipal platform, and maintenance of a network of 97 video cameras spread across 43 different points in the municipality. Nearly half of those devices — 43 units — are fixed DOMO-type cameras designed for general traffic management; the remaining 54 are Bullet-type cameras fitted with automatic number-plate recognition (LPR). On top of that, the project covers equipment for the municipal control room, known as CECOM, which will get a 55-inch video wall in a 3x2 layout and a dedicated control workstation.
This isn't just a build from scratch: the winning company will also take over maintenance of the network already in use today, made up of 30 cameras — eight general-purpose units and 22 number-plate readers. That handover, however, won't happen right away: it's set for 4 December 2027, when the current maintenance contract expires.
The project timeline is split into three distinct stages. The first two months will be spent purchasing, installing and commissioning the new equipment. Then comes a longer stretch — 22 months, extendable through any activated renewals — dedicated purely to keeping the system running and improving it. From December 2027, the final stage kicks in, folding maintenance of the older network into the ongoing work. All told, the contract starts with a two-year term, extendable in two twelve-month blocks up to a four-year cap.
To bid for the contract, companies must show they have at least four technical roles covered: a project manager, a site manager, a senior analyst and a programmer-analyst. Anyone interested has until 30 September, 23:59, to submit an offer.
Behind the decision is Councillor for Local Police María José Carrera, who frames the project as part of a wider push to strengthen safety on Sagunto's streets. She argues that having more — and smarter — electronic eyes on the road will let officers anticipate risky behaviour, react faster to incidents, and better understand traffic patterns in each neighbourhood and along the town's main routes. Carrera stresses that the goal isn't simply to install cameras, but to build a complete network of control points able to supply useful data for better traffic management and, on stretches where it's needed, to identify number plates. The councillor repeats that road safety is a priority for the governing team and argues that the technology gives officers more information and greater capacity to prevent and respond to incidents.
The timing is no accident: Sagunto is going through a rapid economic transformation, with PowerCo's battery gigafactory (Volkswagen Group's EV battery plant) and growing logistics activity around the port acting as engines of ever-denser traffic, particularly heavy vehicles and daily commuters. That backdrop explains why the council has chosen to beef up its monitoring tools now.
Modernising the Local Police's tools isn't limited to cameras. The day before this tender became public, the council announced the addition of five new vehicles to the police fleet, with an investment of close to 200,000 euros: three hybrid Ford Kuga SUVs — one of them with 4x4 traction — assigned to the Citizen Security, Traffic and Districts, and Reports and Procedures units, plus two Honda NC750X motorcycles. Access to the three Ford Kuga SUVs comes through a long-term rental arrangement, with a leasing deal running four years, while the two motorcycles became council property outright from day one, bought directly. Behind the choice of both models sit, above all, two factors: how multi-purpose they are and how easily they adapt to the very different tasks that daily police work demands. The cars are also fitted with cutting-edge technology geared toward IT systems and communications, along with a set of operational gear — a defibrillator, portable warning beacon, fire extinguisher and cones, among other items — meant for handling incidents in the field, while the two motorcycles join the Traffic and Districts Unit's motorcycle group. That vehicle renewal came, as the council explained at the time, at a moment of growth in the force's headcount, meaning the reinforcement of staff is now also being matched by an expansion of the material and technological resources available to officers.
If the contract closes on schedule, residents should notice two things above all: a faster Local Police response to accidents or incidents, and sharper monitoring of the busiest traffic stretches. It's still unclear exactly when the contract will be formally awarded — and therefore when installation of the new cameras will begin.
According to Sagunto City Council.