When is it necessary to demand compulsory business classification?

Ok, there goes a much more real version, with a little spark and less academic roll:

The famous "mandatory business classification." Yes, that procedure that public administrations can ask you yes or yes if you want to launch yourself to compete for public contracts. Come on, it is not a whim: they do it to make sure that any company does not arrive to promise gold and the Moor and then end up riding a circus ... and the dwarves grow. Basically, they ask for this classification to verify that you have pasta and, above all, that you know what you do.

In Spain, the Public Sector Contract Law makes it quite clear: if the works contract goes from 500,000 euros, or the services and supplies exceeds 200,000, it is time to pass through the qualification ring. This in theory, because sometimes the figure changes according to the regulations of each country. So don't trust and look at the small print.

Of course, even if the contract is smaller, if the one organized by the tender thinks that the work is complicated or that there is a lot of pasta at stake, you can also ask for the blissful classification. But be careful, it has to make it clear the reason in the specifications. Nothing to ask because.

How do you get? Well, there is no magic: it is time to appear to the administrative procedure on duty, demonstrate that your company has financial and technical muscle, and cross your fingers so that the Administrative Contracting Advisory Board (yes, that “exciting” name) gives you the approval. In the end, they put you in a group and subgroup according to what you dedicate and what you show what you know how to do.

In short, if you want to go for public contracts of the fat people, find out well about the classification, prepare the papers and show that you are to trust. If not, nor do you try, because they will throw you back to the first change.

In short, that the business classification is not a simple procedure: it is the filter to separate those who can really comply with a public contract from those who only come to prove luck. If you really go seriously, you better have everything in order.