How many appeals are upheld, tribunal by tribunal
29,470 decisions of the ten Spanish procurement review tribunals from 2020 to 15 September 2026, analysed.
Updated 17 September 2026. Figures are recalculated as tribunals publish. The data can be downloaded and reused with attribution.
The headline figuresof appeals are upheld, in whole or in part
are ruled inadmissible without reaching the merits
decisions read, 2020 to 2026
The success rate barely moves
Share of appeals upheld in whole or in part among those with a known outcome, for all ten tribunals together.
Upheld or partly upheld, in %, by tribunal and year
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TACRC | 16.9 | 20.9 | 23.2 | 23.6 | 24.1 | 23.4 | 22.7 |
| TARCJA | 27.8 | 25.2 | 30.6 | 26.9 | 38.9 | 23.9 | 30.1 |
| TACP Madrid | 29.3 | 22.1 | 27.3 | 25.5 | 28.2 | 20.0 | 18.9 |
| TCCSP | 25.8 | 23.7 | 19.2 | 29.7 | 33.4 | 30.0 | 25.7 |
| TACGal | 27.7 | 28.5 | 30.7 | 31.3 | 25.1 | 26.5 | 19.7 |
| TARCCYL | 30.8 | 24.1 | 26.9 | 25.3 | 24.9 | 25.5 | 26.4 |
| OARC | 28.8 | 36.3 | 37.2 | 27.8 | 26.3 | 28.7 | 30.5 |
| TACPCA | — | — | 33.6 | 28.1 | 28.9 | 25.5 | 23.0 |
| TACPA | 24.3 | 15.1 | 20.3 | 26.9 | 30.2 | 30.5 | 36.4 |
| TACPNA | — | 40.0 | 33.0 | 26.6 | 20.6 | 24.1 | 16.2 |
| All ten | 23.2 | 23.5 | 26.3 | 26.2 | 28.5 | 24.6 | 24.4 |
No figure where the tribunal has fewer than 40 decisions with a known outcome that year: the Canary Islands tribunal publishes on its website from 2022.
Very few decisions are challenged, and almost all are confirmed
Of the 29,470 decisions, 377 are cited in 314 judgments of the administrative courts. In only 82 cases the judgment has the decision as the act under review, meaning someone took it to court. In the rest, the judgment merely relies on it.
Who reviews
- Regional High Courts 69
- Supreme Court 9
- National High Court 6
- Administrative courts of first instance 1
How it ends
- Decision annulled 12
- Partly annulled 8
- Decision confirmed 44
- Outcome not yet identified 18
Of the 64 reviewed decisions whose judgment has an identified outcome, 44 were confirmed and 20 were annulled. The sample is small and does not support rates; it does support saying that the special appeal is, in practice, the last word.
Where the figures come from
Source
The decisions each tribunal publishes on its own website: the central tribunal (TACRC), Andalusia, Madrid, Catalonia, Galicia, Castile and León, the Basque Country, the Canary Islands, Aragon and Navarre. The provincial body of Gipuzkoa does not publish its decisions in any accessible list and is left out. The ten regions without a tribunal of their own are heard by the TACRC under agreement, and their appeals are included in the TACRC figure.
Period
From 1 January 2020 to the latest decision published by each tribunal at the time of calculation. Each tribunal's cut-off date is in the downloadable table.
The outcome
Nine tribunals publish it as a data field. The TACRC does not: in its decisions it is read from the operative part (ACUERDA / RESUELVE). The procedure was checked on a random sample across all years without a single error, and its result matches the TACRC's own official statistics, which for 2025 report 15.85 % of appeals upheld and 6.59 % partly upheld, 22.44 % together.
Categories
Upheld: the tribunal grants everything the appellant asks. Partly upheld: some of it. Dismissed: the tribunal reaches the merits and rules against. Inadmissible: it does not reach the merits, usually for lateness, lack of standing or because the act cannot be appealed. Withdrawn: the appellant withdraws. Rates are computed over decisions with a known outcome, with withdrawals excluded from the numerator.
Coverage
Not every decision has a known outcome: some are published without full text, or with an operative part that fits none of the categories above. Catalonia and Aragon are below 80 %, and their rates are given with that caveat.
Download and cite
The data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: it may be copied, reused and republished with a linked attribution.
How to cite
Procurement Appeals Observatory. impugnarlicitaciones.es, 17 September 2026. https://impugnarlicitaciones.es/en/observatory.html
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