TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU's official journal for public procurement — the mandatory publication point for above-threshold tenders from contracting authorities across the EU member states plus a number of other participating countries.
Official site: ted.europa.eu · Reviewed
Coverage
What Tender Radar collects from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
- Above-threshold notices published on TED across all participating countries, refreshed daily
- Below-EU-threshold tenders are never published on TED by design — that's what national portal sources (see the rest of this directory) are for
- Award/winner notices are parsed but kept in a separate internal table by default, not shown as a live opportunity alongside open tenders
- The portal's own search and alerts aren't matched to your company's capabilities — that layer is what Tender Radar adds.
Data
What we extract from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
Field by field, what's in our database for every TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) notice — including where coverage is partial, and why.
Measured in our own data, updated hourly
- Have a deadline
- 42%
- Have a named buyer
- 100%
- Have a description
- 100%
- Have documents
- 4%
Across 1,267,192 TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) notices in our database, all-time.
Title
YesDescription
PartialReal notice text on most rows, but on a meaningful share the description is just a copy of the title — a quirk of certain eForms notice types that don't carry separate free text at source.
English translation
PartialOnly as a side effect of an internal relevance classifier — it can silently return an empty string instead of a real translation for ordinary (non-marketing-flagged) notices, which is most of them.
Deadline
PartialCascaded through several eForms date fields with a timezone offset — but checked against our live data, under half of all TED notices actually have one filled in, since many eForms notice types (prior information, qualification systems, design contests) structurally carry no single bid deadline.
CPV code
YesEstimated value
YesBuyer / contracting authority
YesDocuments
PartialA resolver chain can fetch real files from national e-procurement platforms, but checked against our live data, this succeeds for only a small share of TED's notices — most don't have a document on file.
Award / winner data
PartialParsed from the notice, but stored in a separate contract-awards table — not surfaced as a live opportunity by default.
Amendments & corrections
PartialNot confirmed either way in this audit.
How it works
Using TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
- 1
Browse or search TED directly
TED's public search (including its expert-search syntax) is open to use without an account.
- 2
Use TED's own API or bulk download
TED also provides API and bulk-data access for above-threshold notices.
- 3
Or let Tender Radar watch it for you
Tender Radar ingests TED daily and scores new notices against your company profile automatically, instead of you checking TED's own listings by hand.
FAQ
Common questions
What is TED?
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU's official journal for above-threshold public procurement, covering contracting authorities across the EU and several partner countries.
Does TED cover below-threshold tenders?
No — by design, TED only carries notices that exceed the EU procurement thresholds. Below-threshold activity stays on national portals, which is why Tender Radar runs separate national scrapers alongside TED.
How do I get notified about new TED tenders automatically?
Tender Radar checks TED daily and matches new notices against your company profile, across every country it covers.
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