TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
also: TED · Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU · OJ S series
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online edition of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union and thus the official publication medium for procurement procedures above the EU thresholds. It is operated by the Publications Office of the EU, publishes on every working day and covers the EU member states as well as the EEA countries. Contracts below the thresholds do not appear there — that is not a gap in the data but the limit of the publication duty.
38,313 of our 93,400 open procedures come from TED and 55,087 from national sources TED never sees — 59% of the open corpus would be invisible to a TED-only watcher.
What it means for a bidder
For bidders TED is necessary and not sufficient. Necessary, because above the thresholds every notice must go there and publication on TED starts the clock: no national portal may publish earlier than TED does. Not sufficient, because by number most procedures are below threshold and never reach it.
Since 25 October 2023 eForms have been mandatory. Procedure type, selection criteria, time limits and contract data are therefore carried as language-independent codes rather than free text. In practice a notice from Lithuania can be checked against your own company's qualifications without being translated first. The free text — the actual description of the works, supplies or services — remains in the national language.
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