Speed Identity is a Stockholm manufacturer of biometric enrolment stations for passports, ID cards and border control, founded in 2008. Since March 2024 it has signed four Portuguese public contracts worth €4.42 million in total — border-post and mobile biometric capture equipment for the government’s general secretariat, fingerprint scanners for the migration agency AIMA and 15 airport totems for the PSP police — all held directly by the Swedish company.
Speed Identity’s Portuguese business is public-sector and border-driven. Its largest contract, signed on 23 July 2024 with the Secretaria-Geral da Presidência do Conselho de Ministros (contract 5453), is worth €2,424,000 and covers the supply, installation, maintenance and technical assistance of biometric data-capture equipment at Portugal’s manual border-control posts under the national Smart Borders project, over 1,095 days. The open tender had been launched in May 2023 by the border service SEF, with an estimated value of €2.6 million and a scope covering mainland Portugal, the Azores and Madeira; two bids were received, from Speed Identity and the Portuguese company Vision-Box (TED notices 261330-2023 and 461533-2024).
Three more contracts followed. In March 2024 the migration agency AIMA — which took over SEF’s administrative functions when SEF was dissolved in October 2023 — bought ten-print fingerprint capture equipment for €211,541.40 after a public tender with six bidders. In November 2024 the Secretaria-Geral directly awarded a second contract, worth €1,575,000, for 75 mobile biometric data-capture units with installation, maintenance and technical assistance. On 24 August 2026 the PSP, the police force now in charge of border checks at Portuguese airports, directly awarded €206,700 for 15 totems for the national airports. All four contracts were signed by Speed Identity AB itself; we found no Portuguese subsidiary or branch.
Portugal began operating the EU Entry/Exit System on 12 October 2025, replacing passport stamps with digital records of non-EU travellers’ facial images and fingerprints, and the rollout has been bumpy: the government suspended the system at Lisbon airport for three months at the end of December 2025, the PSP suspended biometric collection at departures in Lisbon, Porto and Faro on 11 and 12 April 2026 because of waiting times, and in May the Interior Ministry announced extra manual border-control booths at Lisbon airport from 29 May, more e-gates and more PSP border staff from July. That is the market a Stockholm manufacturer with 20–49 employees has sold into directly from Sweden, winning four contracts in two and a half years — including the 2024 border tender, where the only other bidder was Portugal’s Vision-Box — and losing AIMA’s 2026 fingerprint-scanner order to the Portuguese firm Make It Special.
24 August 2026 — PSP direct award for 15 totems for Portugal’s airports, €206,700 (contract CT 204/2026, published on the BASE portal on 7 September 2026).
27 May 2026 — TED award notice for AIMA’s tender for 250 ten-print fingerprint devices (CPI19/25): Speed Identity was one of three bidders and ranked second; the €220,000 contract went to Make It Special Lda.
26 March 2026 — In Sweden, the Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) published a TED award notice for its biometric-stations framework agreement with Speed Identity, concluded in May 2023 after a tender with two bids; Speed Identity’s tender was valued at SEK 55.9 million (TED 209647-2026).
Correction, 12 October 2026: An earlier version of this profile said Migrationsverket’s March 2026 notice awarded Speed Identity a contract worth SEK 159.9 million. That is the notice’s combined value of the two tenders received; Speed Identity’s tender was valued at SEK 55.9 million. We have also clarified that the 2008 founding date is the company’s own and that its legal entity has been registered since 1962.
Sources: speed-identity.com (About us); allabolag.se (Speed Identity AB, org. no. 556082-7551, registered 1962; parent company Speed International AB); BASE public-contracts portal, base.gov.pt (contracts 10608548, 10918959, 11022481 and 15587570); TED notices 261330-2023, 461533-2024, 209647-2026 and 361748-2026; Wikipedia (SEF, AIMA); Lusa via dnoticias.pt (18 May 2026); Expresso and Público (30 December 2025); nif.pt. Fetched 9 October 2026; re-checked 12 October 2026.
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