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TED stands for Tenders Electronic Daily. TED is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. The website is managed by the Publications Office of the European Union and makes available public procurement notices from the EU and beyond. Around 3000 new notices are published every working day.
Yes. Accessing and searching tender notices on TED is completely free. Anyone can browse procurement opportunities without subscription fees.
Only public authorities and contracting entities — not individual private persons or companies directly — can submit notices to be published on ted.europa.eu. Companies and other economic operators cannot publish directly, but they can respond / bid to tenders published there.
Yes. Many procurement procedures are open to international companies depending on the contracting authority and the applicable procurement rules.
Notices are received by TED via the TED eNotices2 web application.
In most cases intermediate service providers called eSenders provide the application and online forms for buyers to complete and automatically submit the data to TED. In other cases, eNotices2 can be used directly to submit the notice. It may depend on national legislation which way to submit forms must be followed.
Once they are validated, they are published on TED. When suppliers find the notices, they can follow the links to submit their tenders on the platforms of the public authority.
More information on how to send notices for publication can be found here.
The notices are filled in (and submitted, possibly via eSenders) by the contracting authorities. The standard (eForms) and its (mandatory) fields are provided by the Publications Office in order to ensure compliance with the EU public procurement directives.
TED – Online version of the Supplement to the Official journal of the EU. Above threshold public procurement notices from Member States and EU institutions are published.
OP Portal – On OP Portal, public procurement procedures from the Member States and EU institutions are also published as well. OP portal gets its data from TED.
EU Funding and Tenders Portal – On the EU Funding and Tenders Portal notices from the EU institutions, bodies and agencies are published.
Public Procurement Data Space – On the Public Procurement Data Space a wide range of procurement data is interconnected to provide a comprehensive overview of the EU public market and support advanced data analysis.
No, offers are not submitted via the TED website directly. TED is the place where the public procurement notices are published.
When you open a notice in “Notice View”, you can find the links that take you to the respective address for submission in the content of the notice.
TED publishes notices for:
Public works contracts
Supply contracts
Service contracts
Utilities contracts
Contract award notices
You can search tenders using: Quick search (keywords) Advanced search filters Expert search queries Browsing by sector (CPV codes), location, or business opportunity.
The advance search offers you the possibility to refine your search by filtering different fields. You’re not limited to one filter; you can combine multiple fields to narrow down results.
We recommend you to watch our instructional tutorial video about the advanced search for more guidance.
The Publications Office offers online workshops for eSenders, and reusers of TED data. Furthermore, some webinars for the use of eNotices2 were organised. Please find more information, including recordings of previous sessions, about these online workshops here: • eSenders workshops; • Reuser workshops; • Webinar/workshops recordings On the TED website, you can also consult the video tutorials that guide you through the navigation on the TED website and our help pages.
Yes, please refer to our video tutorials and our help pages for more guidance.
For the purpose of addressing information to the respective groups on TED, we distinguish them as follows:
“User” is a general term for anyone accessing the TED website.
A “re-user” is a specific type of user who extracts data from TED to reuse them.
eSenders are public or private organisations who act as intermediate service providers to submit procurement notices to TED’s data interface.
You can find more information on the role of eSenders in the sending of public procurement notices here.
If you would like to become an eSenders, you can find more information here. You can also check the list of all TED eSenders here.
Notices are published on TED every working day. For details, please see our publication schedule here.
ESPD stands for European Single Procurement Document.
It is a standard (online form) used by EU Contracting Authorities and Economic Operators to establish provider eligibility. It covers exclusion grounds and selection criteria. The contracting authority will provide the criteria, and the economic operator will answer to them to prove eligibility.
Please find more information about the ESPD here.
EPO stands for eProcurement Ontology which is another standard.
It maintains consistent terms, definitions and relations in procurement data and ensures that all entities processing public procurement data use it consistently. Please find more information about eProcurement Ontology here.
This could have various reasons.
We would suggest to particularly pay attention to the following two points:
• Please ensure that you have selected the right search scope between “all notices”, “active notices” and “current OJ S issue”.
• If you use the advanced or expert search, make sure you fill in the fields correctly.
You can also consult our video tutorials on Quick Search, Advanced Search and Expert Search and the respective sections on our help pages for more information on how to correctly perform these type of searches. It is also possible that a notice matching the search criteria you indicated does not exist. In that case, we suggest broadening your search criteria.
On TED, result notices are also published. In these types of notices, information about the outcome of a call for tender is contained, generally including information about who won the contract (“Contract award notices”).
To find such result notices, you can select “results” in the “Business opportunities” section in the Advanced Search.
PIN stands for Prior Information Notice. A PIN is a planning notices which announces an upcoming contract notice (which would initiate the call for tender) in the future.
Currently (January 2026) there are more than 6.7 million notices on TED in total.
Prozorro is the Ukrainian public procurement platform.
Notice data are available in all EU official languages (except for the free text which is only available in the official notice language(s)). If you wish to have the notice fully translated, you need to request machine translations.
However, please note that his translation will be generated by eTranslation, a machine translation tool provided by the European Commission. Machine translation can give you a basic idea of the content in a language you understand. It is fully automated and involves no human intervention. The quality and accuracy of machine translation can vary significantly from one text to another and between different language pairs. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy and accepts no liability for possible errors.
Registration is not required to view notices.
- to personalise search profiles, according to your needs;
- to get e-mail alerts based on your search profiles;
- to personalise RSS feeds for your web sites and RSS readers;
- to access the machine translation feature for all notices.
In order to create an account, you need to create an EU login. Then you need to register on TED and you may receive an email asking you to verify your address. Click the link in the email to confirm your registration. After verifying your email, you can log in to your new TED account using your email and password.
Once you have created a notice alert you can find it in “my Dashboard”. You are able to edit or delete your notice alert. You can define a 'Reminder date' or activate/deactivate the alerts. If the alert is activated a ‘bell’ icon is visible in the 'Alert' column.
You can change the language of your next saved search by going to Preferences> Site preferences> Preferred language.
This option filters out previous versions of a notice (if they were modified by a change notice). Only the most up to date version of the notice is displayed in the search results.
