Data & coverage

Where it comes from

Every notice on this site originates from TED, the European Union's official journal for public procurement. Publishing there is mandatory for contracts above the EU thresholds, which is what makes it worth building on: for tenders of that size it is not a sample, it is the record.

TED is open data and reuse is permitted. We take the notices through the official API, keep the original file exactly as published, and link back to it from every page.

What is covered

Deliberately narrow. Rather than mirror all of European procurement badly, we cover one slice properly:

• Countries: Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
• Categories: CPV codes beginning 72* and 48* — IT services, software and related supplies.
• Period: October 2023 to August 2026.

Notices outside that slice are not shown. We do keep the original files for the whole of the EU, so coverage can be widened later without re-fetching anything.

How current it is

New notices are collected twice each weekday morning, with a second pass at midday to catch anything TED published late. Statuses — open, closed, awarded — are recomputed nightly. A tender that closed yesterday will show as closed today.

What it is not

The honest limitations, because you will hit them eventually:

• It is a derived copy. We parse and restructure the source. Parsing can be wrong, and a notice can be amended after we read it. The TED notice is authoritative — check it before you act.
• Award links are partly inferred. Where an award notice carries the contract reference we link it exactly. Where it does not, we match on the buyer and category, and that can be wrong.
• Below-threshold tenders are missing. Not our omission — they are not published on TED at all. National portals carry them.
• Descriptions stay in their original language where the buyer did not supply a translation. We do not machine-translate: an invented translation of a requirement is worse than the original text.
• Winners that look like individuals are redacted automatically before publication. That is a judgement made from a name, so it will not catch every case — see the data removal page.

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