A minor contract is a legal and quick mechanism designed for one-off, low-value projects (in this case, averaging around €3.800 per contract). However, when an administration accumulates 8.918 minor contracts totaling €33,64 million, it gives the impression that, instead of planning and putting the municipality's needs out to large public tenders, things are being requested "please" and on the fly, breaking down orders into thousands of small invoices to avoid exceeding the legal thresholds that would require an open tender.
The Mogán Town Hall's minor procurement structure operates as a highly fragmented administrative system, with a historical record of 8.918 minor contracts and an awarded economic volume of €33.64 million, yielding an average amount of approximately €3.800 per contract. This management model has generated 1.893 active statistical indicators or red flags in public procurement monitors, of which 1.868 correspond to the annual period, 8 to minor contracts of lower value, 10 to the time factor, and 7 to the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (BORME). These figures point to award patterns under statistical surveillance without implying direct legal irregularity.
The temporal evolution of contractual activity details that the year with the highest number of formalized contracts was 2022, with a total of 1.368 contracts, while the peak in economic expenditure was recorded in 2025, reaching 5.5 million euros. The quality analysis reflects 100% of contracts with published taxable amounts out of a set of 8.922 gross records, which includes four cancelled contracts, 8.810 contracts analyzed in the ten-year series, and only two dates corrected for implausible years. The flow of awards to regular suppliers is headed by María Belén Suárez Prieto with 148 contracts for 89.918 euros, followed by M. Jaime Hernández Hernández with 110 contracts for 85.258 euros, Viajes La Molina with 100 contracts for 80.999 euros, Actura Arte y Comunicación with 75 contracts for 223.321 euros, José Antonio Santana Hernández with 70 contracts for 116.252 euros, Siscocan Grupo Comercial with 63 contracts for 99.367 euros, Francisco Javier Medina Betancor with 61 contracts for 88.091 euros and Acosta Design with 60 awards for 67.806 euros.
Alongside the smaller contracts, the public platform records larger-scale tenders for the improvement of services and infrastructure, including the lease of a building as a municipal workshop and warehouse for 65.484 euros, support for the Vinfopol police management software for 49.106 euros, the rehabilitation of the pools at the David Jiménez Silva Sports Complex Municipal Swimming Pool for 91.296 euros, and the major project for the regeneration of the road network in the Fishing Quarter of Arguineguín, financed by ERDF funds with a budget of 3.306.037 euros.
Much of the recent smaller-scale activity channels resources from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and the Tourism Sustainability Plan for Mogán: Sea, Mountain and Sky. Within the Tamaranae axis and the circular economy and employment programs, notable supplies include equipment for the Veneguera Hostel awarded to V2 Mogán Construcciones for €2.192, storage lockers from Vimor Equipamiento Comercial for €1.600, furniture from Muebles Pepe Jesús for €7.162, and a closing event for the Tourism Sustainability Plan (PSTD) awarded to Producciones Sonreír es Magia for €7.618. In addition, contracts were formalized for institutional advertising with Editorial Prensa Canaria for 1.048 euros and Informaciones Canarias for 1.000 euros, renewal of signage panels with Instalcanarias for 15.500 euros, promotional videos with Doramas Sosa Morales for 14.980 euros, electrical installations in La Cardonera with Control y Montajes Industriales Cymi for 36.670 euros, interpretive tables with Astroeduca for 6.013 euros and educational days with Factoría Protón for 15.943 euros.
The list of European supplies and services is completed with informational brochures from RGCanarias Soluciones Publicitarias for €2.758, advertising material from Valtia Proyectos for €15.836, waste characterization from Sistemas Medioambientales for €11.675, promotional material from Airam Abella Álvarez for €15.970, training for the HORECA channel from UTE Mogán for €16.039, strategic guides from the Association for the Promotion of Culture and Heritage of the Canary Islands for €14.996, remote management nodes in Playa de Mogán from Aceinsa Canarias for €40.907, CAP29 energy efficiency from Instalaciones y Montajes Eléctricos Saneamiento for €40.801, stabilization of the El Pinar road from Vías y Construcciones for €42.800, container kits from Sulo Iberia for €14.245, and tourist technology equipment from Aguademayo Marketing for 10.969 euros.
The routine and festive municipal operational block includes musical performances for seniors with Álvaro Hernández López for 4.600 euros, posters and training material for the PFAE with M. Jaime Hernández Hernández for 185 euros and 155 euros, manuals with Casa del Libro for 208 euros, training services with En-Formate Canarias for 6.030 euros, office supplies with Fungibles 7 Islas for 1.500 euros, uniforms with Antonio Pérez García for 6.800 euros and workwear with Mentado Uniforme Laboral for 3.931 euros. The Carnival festivities program includes musical performances by Magdalena López Suárez for 882 euros, DJ sessions with Manuel Ángel Naranjo Suárez for 5.671 euros, the Aragüimé comparsa for 2.600 euros, posters with Acosta Design for 288 euros, vinyl records with Vinilos Gran Canaria for 738 euros and graphic design with Luis Alberto Pérez Caicedo for 1.245 euros.
Finally, the management of infrastructure and maintenance services includes wastewater discharge reports from the Puerto Rico WWTP with the Engineering, Territorial Services and Environment Society for €10.165, cold asphalt with Kliner Professional for €9.840, concrete and aggregates with Canarias Betón for €10.712, island school support with Jessica Sarmiento Llovell for €5.000, liquefied gas for the Nursery School with Disa for €3.500, algae netting with Instalaciones Técnicas Bentayga for €6.583, sports saunas with Grupo Mitaun for €14.182, equipment maintenance with Dysteca for €1.000, swimming pool products with Productos Químicos Brisas Canarias for €1.351, IT maintenance with Jonathan Santana Vega for €722, work uniforms with Inmaculada C. Suárez Vélez for €1.357, and printing materials with María Belén Suárez Prieto for 1.454 euros.
