Where are public tenders in Europe published?

EU member states publish tenders above the EU thresholds on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the EU's central portal, as well as on their national portals. Non-EU European markets — the UK, Switzerland and Norway — publish on their own national systems (Find a Tender, simap.ch and Doffin). qlows aggregates all of them and matches notices to your catalog.

What is the difference between TED and national tender portals?

TED carries EU tenders above the EU value thresholds, in every official language. National portals carry those same high-value tenders plus the many below-threshold contracts that never reach TED. To see everything relevant, you need both — which is why qlows reads the national portals as well as TED.

Can a foreign company bid on European public tenders?

Yes. Within the EU single market, suppliers from any member state bid on equal terms. Under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, suppliers from other GPA parties can also bid above each market's threshold, with no local-presence requirement.

How do I find European tenders relevant to my business?

Instead of watching each national portal and TED by hand, import your product and service catalog into qlows. It matches live notices across every European market to what you actually deliver and gives you a weekly shortlist, so you stop reading past thousands of irrelevant tenders.

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Live public tenders from 19European markets — EU notices from TED plus the UK, Swiss and Norwegian portals — in one place. Pick a country below, or let qlows match your catalog to what’s open across the whole continent.

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European public procurement, by the numbers

Updated Sep 6, 2026

The scale of the market qlows opens up across Europe — and how much is live right now.

€2 trillion: spent on public procurement across the EU every year (~14% of EU GDP) (European Commission)
700,000+: procurement notices are published on TED (EU) every year (European Commission)
250,000+: public authorities buy through procurement across the EU (European Commission)

Public tenders by European country

16 EU members publish on TED and their national portals; the UK, Switzerland and Norway publish nationally. Each hub shows live notices by industry.

What are EU tenders?

TED, national portals, and the thresholds

Across the EU, public contracts above a set of value thresholds must be advertised EU-wide on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the Union’s official journal for procurement. Below those thresholds, contracts are published on each country’s national portal — bund.de and DTVP in Germany, BOAMP and PLACE in France, TenderNed in the Netherlands, and so on.

The practical problem isn’t access, it’s volume: thousands of notices a week, in dozens of languages, spread across TED and every national system. That’s what qlows is built to cut through — read the whole corpus, classify it by CPV, and surface the handful that fit your catalog. Read the TED guide.

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Public tenders in Europe, answered

Where are public tenders in Europe published?: EU member states publish tenders above the EU thresholds on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the EU's central portal, as well as on their national portals. Non-EU European markets — the UK, Switzerland and Norway — publish on their own national systems (Find a Tender, simap.ch and Doffin). qlows aggregates all of them and matches notices to your catalog.
What is the difference between TED and national tender portals?: TED carries EU tenders above the EU value thresholds, in every official language. National portals carry those same high-value tenders plus the many below-threshold contracts that never reach TED. To see everything relevant, you need both — which is why qlows reads the national portals as well as TED.
Can a foreign company bid on European public tenders?: Yes. Within the EU single market, suppliers from any member state bid on equal terms. Under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, suppliers from other GPA parties can also bid above each market's threshold, with no local-presence requirement.
How do I find European tenders relevant to my business?: Instead of watching each national portal and TED by hand, import your product and service catalog into qlows. It matches live notices across every European market to what you actually deliver and gives you a weekly shortlist, so you stop reading past thousands of irrelevant tenders.

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