The CIM Região de Coimbra wants to create a Logistics Support Base in Penela to strengthen civil protection and emergency relief, improving the regional response to fires, storms, floods and other disasters.
The Coimbra Metropolitan Region occupies a strategic position in Central Portugal. It is a vast, diverse, and demanding territory, where urban areas, extensive forest zones, river valleys, mountains, and an Atlantic coast coexist, exposing its 19 municipalities to very different risks—rural fires, floods, storms, landslides, and other increasingly intense and frequent occurrences. This territorial diversity, combined with the region's geographical centrality and its role as a link between different sub-regions, makes emergency response capacity of paramount importance here.
When a crisis strikes, time is of the essence. And when time is of the essence, logistics largely determines what can be done on the ground. This project was born from that reality: to create, in Penela, the Logistics Support Base for the Coimbra Metropolitan Region, an intermunicipal-scale infrastructure designed to support civil protection operations, accommodate and sustain human and material resources, strengthen coordination between municipalities, and increase preparedness in the face of extreme situations.
This is not “just another piece of infrastructure.” It is a structural response for a territory that, due to its location, size, and complexity, needs to be better prepared to protect populations, assets, and resources. The Coimbra Metropolitan Region frequently assumes an institutional coordination role in the mobilization and coordination of resources, but it continues to need a robust, permanent, and well-prepared logistical structure to serve the entire region in an integrated manner.
The future base will improve the pre-positioning of equipment, support prolonged operations, create better conditions for the reception of forces on the ground, and strengthen the region's preparedness, prevention, and rescue capacity. More than just building a building, we are creating a collective infrastructure at the service of everyone, with a direct impact on the security, resilience, and future response capacity of the region.
We need everyone's help to turn this vision into reality. Supporting this campaign is a concrete investment in the protection of the Coimbra Metropolitan Region and the safety of its communities. Every contribution will help build a stronger, more coordinated, and better-prepared response to the challenges of a territory that, due to its importance and characteristics, cannot continue without this capacity.
Supporting this campaign means helping to protect a region central to the country. It means strengthening the response capacity of 19 municipalities. It means contributing to an infrastructure that will make a difference when it is most needed.
We're counting on you. Support this cause. Help us build the Logistics Support Base for the Coimbra Metropolitan Region.
About the author
The Intermunicipal Community of the Coimbra Region is the entity that brings together the 19 municipalities of the Coimbra Metropolitan Region, working daily to build joint responses to the challenges affecting the territory and its populations. More than an administrative structure, the CIM Região de Coimbra is a space for cooperation, proximity and action, where the aim is to transform common needs into concrete solutions with a real impact on people's lives.
In a territory as diverse as ours — encompassing urban areas, mountains, valleys, forests, and coastline — we know that risks are not abstract. They are real, close, and felt by the communities. Over the past few years, the region has faced rural fires, storms, floods, and other emergency situations that demand coordination, planning, and rapid response. It is in this context that the CIM (Intermunicipal Community) assumes an essential role: coordinating efforts, reinforcing resources, supporting municipalities, and contributing to a more prepared, integrated, and effective civil protection system.
Our experience is based precisely on this mission at a regional scale. We have been developing structuring projects and investments in areas such as civil protection, risk management, emergency communications, capacity building for agents in the territory, and strengthening regional resilience. We are well aware of the needs of the municipalities, the operational constraints on the ground, and the importance of anticipating risks, rather than simply reacting to them.
It is with this sense of responsibility that we are promoting this campaign. We are not starting from an abstract idea, but from a concrete and widely recognized need: to provide the Coimbra Metropolitan Region with a Logistics Support Base in Penela, capable of strengthening preparedness and response in critical moments. We know what is at stake, we know the territory, and we have the necessary determination to make this project a reality.
By supporting this campaign, you are also placing your trust in a public entity with experience in regional coordination, a commitment to the collective interest, and a deep connection to the territory and its people. It is this connection that drives us. And it is for this connection that we work every day.
Budget and due dates
The implementation of the Coimbra Metropolitan Region Logistics Support Base in Penela will be developed in different stages, from the technical preparation of the investment to the commissioning of the infrastructure. The objective is to guarantee a phased, rigorous, and transparent execution, ensuring that each installment of the funding contributes directly to the creation of an operational structure serving the entire region.
1. Technical update, project review and investment preparation
Estimated value: €60,000
Estimated schedule: 3 months
This phase includes the technical review and updating of existing projects and specialties, the preparation of contracting procedures, the technical compatibility of execution elements, and other preparatory work necessary for launching the operation.
2. Construction contract and material execution of the infrastructure.
Estimated value: €2,761,017.42
Estimated schedule: 12 months
This corresponds to the main component of the investment, according to the reference budget estimate, including the construction and execution of various specialties, namely architecture, structural engineering, building networks, electrical installations, communications, mechanical installations, gas, fire safety in buildings, centralized technical management, roadworks, and rainwater drainage. This stage will provide the Logistics Support Base with the physical and technical conditions essential for its operation.
3. Supervision, technical coordination and monitoring of execution.
Estimated value: €80,000
Estimated schedule: throughout the entire project execution.
This includes services such as project supervision, technical coordination, investment management support, and monitoring of execution, ensuring quality control, work compliance, and adherence to deadlines.
4. Operational testing, final installation and commissioning
Estimated value: €20,000
Estimated schedule: 1 month
In the final phase, functional tests will be ensured, the operational conditions of the infrastructure will be verified, the final installation of complementary equipment will take place, and the base will be prepared for commissioning.
5. Reserve for price updates, technical adjustments, and unforeseen circumstances.
Estimated value: €78,982.58
Estimated scheduling: across the operation
This component is intended to accommodate any price updates, technical adjustments resulting from project revisions, and unforeseen needs associated with the full implementation of the investment, safeguarding its sound financial and material execution.
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