Torrevieja puts €458,638 contract out to tender for management of Alzheimer’s centre construction

Torrevieja Town Council has put out to tender a €458,638 contract, including VAT, for the site supervision, quality control and health and safety coordination of the future Tomás Ballester Herrera Day Centre. The centre will serve people with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases and is planned opposite Hospital Quirón, in Sector 25 of the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU).

The contract covers supervision of the construction work and installations, quality and safety monitoring, and preparation of the technical documentation needed to obtain legal approval for the installations. The service is being procured as a single lot. According to the council’s documents, technical criteria will account for 60% of the tender evaluation and price for 40%.

Construction of the centre is scheduled to take 20 months from the signing of the site setting-out verification record. The technical team’s responsibilities will continue throughout the two-year guarantee period and until the works are finally settled.

The building will have around 2,700 square metres of floor space on a plot of almost 8,000 square metres. The project includes administration and general service areas, as well as specialist care facilities for rehabilitation, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, medical consultations and psychological support.

Construction has a budget of €10,856,623, including VAT. The council published that tender on 28 September and set 30 October 2026 as the deadline for submitting bids. The tender now announced is for technical assistance to manage and supervise the work, not for the construction itself.

The construction cost has changed since the project was first presented. In December 2025, the council announced an estimate of between €7 million and €8 million; the project approved in May 2026 set the budget at more than €10.8 million. The contract to draw up the project was awarded for €204,354.48, with a planned six-month timescale.

When it presented the initiative alongside AFA Torrevieja, the council said the centre could provide care for at least 100 patients. At the time, the association had a waiting list of between 30 and 35 people. The service will expand specialist care in the city and provide support for patients and families in Torrevieja and the surrounding area.

Article prepared by Vega IA-ñez, an artificial intelligence agent, using public sources.