Belgian public tenders are published on the federal e-Procurement platform (publicprocurement.be) and, above EU thresholds, also on TED. This guide covers the 2026–2027 thresholds, the €30,000 and €140,000 national rules, language and e-signature rules, and EU institution tenders in Brussels.
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See the ones that fit youBelgium buys at every level of its federal structure: the federal government, three regions (Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels-Capital), three language communities, 10 provinces, 565 municipalities and many hospitals, social housing companies and intermunicipal bodies. General government procurement was 14.9% of GDP in 2023 (OECD), about €95 billion in 2024 on Eurostat data, but roughly half of that is healthcare and social spending paid to private providers rather than tendered. Belgian buyers publish on the federal e-Procurement platform, where BOSA says more than 5,500 contracting authorities post over 20,000 contracts a year; only contracts at or above EU thresholds must also go to TED. TenderRadar counted 1,019 open Belgian tenders on TED on 6 October 2026, a figure that includes EU institutions with Brussels addresses.
~€95B (2024)
Annual procurement value
~15%
Share of GDP
1,019
Open Belgian tenders on TED
TenderRadar count on 6 October 2026; includes EU institutions with Belgian addresses
813
New Belgian contract notices on TED, September 2026
TenderRadar recorded 790 in July and 478 in August 2026 (summer dip)
Construction (11%)
Largest category of open tenders
Then cleaning/waste/environment 9%, architecture & engineering 8%, medical & pharma 8% (TenderRadar, TED, October 2026)
Belgian Defence (35 open)
Most active buyer on TED
26 notices as Ministère de la Défense and 9 as Ministerie van Defensie; Vlaamse Overheid is next with 34 (October 2026)
Source: Tender Radar analysis of TED and national portal data, October 6, 2026.
The EU thresholds were revised down for 2026–2027: €5,404,000 for works, €140,000 for federal supplies and services and €216,000 for other buyers (utilities and defence: €432,000). Belgium transposed them by ministerial decree (published 14 January 2026) and royal decree (published 20 January 2026), which also lowered the ceiling for the negotiated procedure without prior publication from €143,000 to €140,000.
Official sourceOn 30 April 2026 the federal Council of Ministers approved a draft law that raises the 'accepted invoice' low-value threshold from €30,000 to €75,000 (€90,000 approved spend), allows direct awards up to €3,000, makes best price-quality the default award method above EU thresholds and changes the e-signature rules. It still has to pass Parliament: in early October 2026 it had not yet been tabled in the Chamber, so the €30,000 rule still applies.
Official sourceBelgian procurement law is federal and applies to every contracting authority: the federal state, regions, communities, provinces, municipalities and other public bodies. The core is the Law of 17 June 2016 on public procurement (in force since 30 June 2017), with the Royal Decree of 18 April 2017 on award procedures in the classic sectors, the Royal Decree of 18 June 2017 for the utilities ('special') sectors and the Royal Decree of 14 January 2013 on contract performance. Remedies follow the Law of 17 June 2013, and concessions and defence/security contracts have their own laws. Electronic communication and submission are the rule for all procedures except low-value contracts. Recent changes: the Royal Decree of 13 August 2023 on procurement governance generalized electronic submission platforms and requires award notices for below-threshold contracts, with annual reporting of low-value contracts from 2025; e-invoicing became mandatory in phases up to 1 March 2024; and the 2026–2027 thresholds took effect on 1 January 2026. The legislation is prepared by the Public Procurement Service of the FPS Chancellery of the Prime Minister, while FPS Policy and Support (BOSA) runs the e-Procurement platform, federal purchasing policy and central framework agreements. A simplification bill approved by the government on 30 April 2026 is not yet law.
Belgium's federal e-Procurement platform, run by FPS BOSA and used by federal, regional and local buyers to publish notices, share documents and receive electronic bids. Launched on 4 September 2023, it replaced the old e-Notification, e-Tendering and e-Catalogue applications, whose sites no longer load. Free for suppliers: register with an email address and password, add your company and fill in your business card so buyers can invite you to unpublished contracts. Interface in Dutch, French, German and English. TenderRadar does not yet integrate this platform, so Belgian notices published only here (most below-EU-threshold contracts) are not in TenderRadar.
Visit portalThe official national tender bulletin ('Bulletin of Tenders'), now a public search inside e-Procurement. Every Belgian notice that must be published appears here, above and below EU thresholds, and only the BDA and EU Official Journal versions count as official publication. Filter by CPV code, NUTS region, language, procedure and deadline, with no login needed. It also lists award notices, including for contracts awarded without a prior call, which is useful competitor and pricing intelligence. Not covered by TenderRadar yet.
Visit portal| Category | Threshold (EUR) |
|---|---|
| Supplies | €140,000 (federal/central government) / €216,000 (regions, communities, local and other buyers) / €432,000 (utilities and defence & security) |
| Services | €140,000 (federal/central government) / €216,000 (regions, communities, local and other buyers) / €432,000 (utilities and defence & security) / €750,000 (social and other specific services) |
| Works | €5,404,000 (all buyers, including utilities, defence & security and concessions) |
EU thresholds excl. VAT, valid 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027 (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2152 and parallel acts for utilities, concessions and defence), applied in Belgium through a ministerial decree of 5 January 2026 and a royal decree published on 20 January 2026. The €140,000 'central government' figure applies to the federal contracting authorities listed in Annex 2A of the Royal Decree of 18 April 2017; regions, communities, provinces, municipalities and other public bodies use €216,000. National rules: contracts under €30,000 (estimated value, excl. VAT) are low-value contracts that can be awarded on an accepted invoice after consulting several firms where possible, with no notice. Below €140,000 of expenditure to be approved, buyers may use the negotiated procedure without prior publication (no notice; firms are invited directly). The simplified negotiated procedure with prior publication (a BDA notice, normally at least 22 days to bid) is open for supplies and services below EU thresholds and works below €750,000. Open and restricted procedures can be used at any value; their notices go to the BDA, plus TED at or above EU thresholds. For contracts of €140,000 or more, buyers must consider dividing them into lots and explain if they do not. A bill approved by the Council of Ministers on 30 April 2026 would raise the €30,000 ceiling to €75,000 (€90,000 approved spend) and allow direct award up to €3,000; it was not in force as of October 2026.
The largest category of open Belgian tenders on TED (11% in TenderRadar's October 2026 data). Buyers range from municipalities and social housing companies to rail infrastructure manager Infrabel and regional agencies. Above a set value, buyers require Belgian contractor accreditation (erkenning/agréation) in the right category and class, or equivalent proof from foreign firms, and works up to €750,000 can use the simplified negotiated procedure, so many mid-sized jobs appear only in the national Bulletin.
CPV: 45
9% of open Belgian tenders on TED. Municipalities, intermunicipal companies, hospitals and regional administrations buy cleaning, waste collection and processing, and environmental services. For contracts of €140,000 or more, buyers must consider dividing them into lots and explain if they do not, which helps smaller and regional firms bid for part of a larger contract.
CPV: 90
8% of open tenders. Design, engineering, surveying and project-management services for buildings, infrastructure and renovation, bought by regional governments, municipalities, universities and the German-speaking Community (which publishes in German). Many studies fall below EU thresholds and are advertised only in the BDA.
CPV: 71
8% of open tenders. Public healthcare bodies such as HUmani in Charleroi (11 open TED tenders in October 2026) tender medical consumables, nutrition products and equipment, frequently as multi-year contracts (for example 2026–2030). Health takes the biggest slice of Belgian government procurement spending: 45% in 2023, one of the three highest shares in the OECD, although much of that is reimbursed care rather than tenders.
CPV: 33
7% of open tenders. Maintenance of buildings, vehicles, technical installations and equipment for universities, municipalities and federal bodies. Repair jobs below €140,000 can be awarded without a prior call (the BDA shows such awards, for example by universities), so an up-to-date e-Procurement business card and buyer relationships matter.
Every Belgian notice that must be published appears in the Bulletin der Aanbestedingen / Bulletin des Adjudications at publicprocurement.be/bda, but only contracts at or above EU thresholds must also go to TED. BOSA says more than 5,500 buyers publish over 20,000 contracts a year on its platform, so most below-threshold Belgian work is visible only there. TenderRadar currently covers TED for Belgium, so also save free search profiles on e-Procurement for national-only notices.
Below €140,000 Belgian buyers may use the negotiated procedure without prior publication, and below €30,000 they can simply consult a few firms and accept an invoice. Contracts awarded this way are not advertised. Buyers search the platform's business cards (visitekaartje / carte de visite) to decide whom to invite, so register (free, with an email address and password), add your company and list your CPV codes, regions and, for works, your accreditation category and class.
Unless the procurement documents say otherwise, the deposit report the platform generates when you upload a bid must carry a qualified electronic signature (Royal Decree of 18 April 2017, Art. 43) from someone authorized to bind the company; a proxy must attach the power of attorney. Any eIDAS qualified signature works. Practice on the demo environment at demo.publicprocurement.be. If you last bid before September 2023, re-register: company accounts were not migrated to the new platform.
Notices and documents come in the buyer's language: Dutch in Flanders, French in Wallonia and German for the German-speaking Community, while Brussels-Capital buyers, and often federal ones, publish in both French and Dutch. The procurement documents state which language(s) your bid must use. Assume English is not accepted unless the documents say so, and budget for professional translation.
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The federal e-Procurement platform at www.publicprocurement.be, run by FPS BOSA. Its public Bulletin of Tenders (Bulletin der Aanbestedingen / Bulletin des Adjudications) at publicprocurement.be/bda lists every Belgian notice that has to be published, from federal, regional and local buyers, and can be searched without logging in. To bid or save alerts you register for free. Contracts at or above EU thresholds also appear on TED, which is the part TenderRadar covers today.
No. On 4 September 2023 BOSA replaced e-Notification, e-Tendering and e-Catalogue with a single integrated e-Procurement platform at publicprocurement.be. Buyer accounts were migrated, but companies had to register again. Old links to enot.publicprocurement.be or eten.publicprocurement.be, still found on some government pages, no longer load.
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NATO's July 2026 figures show Belgium's core defence spending rising from 1.27% of GDP in 2024 to an estimated 2.00% in 2025 and 2026, and NATO's category data show most of the increase going into non-personnel spending (operations, maintenance, equipment and infrastructure). Belgian Defence is already the most active Belgian buyer on TED in TenderRadar's data (35 open tenders in October 2026).
BOSA's federal purchasing policy note (12 December 2025) commits federal services to further centralization through the joint purchasing model, more professional buying, and more attention to SMEs, sustainability and innovation. For suppliers this points to more centrally run federal framework agreements, where getting onto the framework matters more than chasing single orders.
Official sourceKey authority: Federal Public Service Policy and Support (FPS BOSA)
The EU's Official Journal supplement. Belgian contracts at or above EU thresholds are published here as well as in the BDA. TED also carries the above-threshold tenders of EU institutions and agencies with Belgian addresses (Commission DGs in Brussels, for example), which it records as Belgian buyers. Free to search; bids are submitted on the platform named in each notice. TenderRadar monitors TED for Belgium and counted 1,019 open Belgian tenders on 6 October 2026.
Where the European Commission and other EU institutions, agencies and bodies advertise calls for tenders, including middle- and low-value procedures that never reach TED. Under the EU Financial Regulation, contracts above €15,000 but below the EU thresholds are advertised by the institutions themselves, usually online here or on their own websites, rather than on TED. Searching is free; an EU Login account is needed to subscribe, ask questions or submit bids. TenderRadar only picks up EU institution tenders that are published on TED.
Visit portalHet Facilitair Bedrijf is the Flemish government's sole central purchasing body for common support goods and services (the Vlaams Energiebedrijf buys energy). Its site has the catalogue of Flemish framework agreements plus procurement guidance and model documents in Dutch. The tenders themselves are published on e-Procurement, and on TED when above thresholds. Flemish government entities (Vlaamse Overheid) were the second most active Belgian buyer on TED in TenderRadar's October 2026 data, with 34 open tenders.
Visit portalThe Walloon Region's official procurement portal. It does not host tenders (it sends companies to the federal e-Procurement platform) but has practical French-language guidance for companies on bidding, avoiding exclusion, getting paid, recovering guarantees and appealing decisions. The Service public de Wallonie had 15 open tenders on TED in TenderRadar's October 2026 data.
Visit portalCPV: 50
6% of open tenders, boosted by EU institutions in Brussels that buy studies, evaluations, communication and event services. Those EU tenders follow the EU Financial Regulation rather than Belgian law, and smaller ones are advertised mainly on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal rather than TED.
CPV: 79
Belgian Defence is the most active Belgian buyer on TED in TenderRadar's data (35 open tenders under its French and Dutch names in October 2026), and NATO estimates Belgium's core defence spending rose from 1.27% of GDP in 2024 to 2.00% in 2025 and 2026. Sensitive defence and security contracts fall under the Law of 13 August 2011, with EU thresholds of €432,000 for supplies and services and €5,404,000 for works.
CPV: 35
Belgian buyers check Belgian bidders' tax, social security and accreditation status themselves through BOSA's Telemarc tool. Below EU thresholds, submitting a bid counts as an implicit sworn declaration that you are not excluded, but only for certificates the buyer can pull from those databases; foreign firms usually have to attach their own certificates before the deadline. At or above EU thresholds you submit an ESPD (UEA/DUME). eCertis lists the equivalent documents from your country.
For public works above a set value, Belgian buyers ask for contractor accreditation (erkenning / agréation) in a given category and class, and notices state it (for example 'P2 class 5'). The FPS Economy runs the system, accreditation is normally valid for five years, and its accreditation commission advises on whether foreign qualifications are equivalent. Sort this out before you need it.
For public contracts published since 1 March 2024 (except those under €3,000 excl. VAT), suppliers must send structured electronic invoices to the buyer, normally over the Peppol network; PDF by email does not count. A few buyers, such as autonomous public companies, are exempt for now. If you do not yet have Peppol-ready software, BOSA's free Mercurius portal lets you key in invoices to Belgian public buyers manually.
BOSA says more than 5,500 contracting authorities publish over 20,000 contracts a year on e-Procurement. Only the larger ones reach TED: TenderRadar recorded 790 new Belgian contract notices on TED in July 2026, 478 in August and 813 in September, and counted 1,019 open Belgian TED tenders on 6 October 2026. Those TED figures include EU institutions with Belgian addresses.
EU thresholds (excl. VAT, 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027): €5,404,000 for works; €140,000 for supplies and services bought by federal authorities; €216,000 for regional, community, local and other buyers; €432,000 for utilities and defence & security supplies and services; €750,000 for social and other specific services. Nationally, contracts under €30,000 can be awarded on an accepted invoice, and the negotiated procedure without prior publication is allowed below €140,000. A bill to raise the €30,000 ceiling to €75,000 was approved by the government in April 2026 but is not yet law.
No. The European Commission, Parliament, Council and EU agencies follow the EU Financial Regulation (Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509), not Belgian law. Above the EU thresholds they publish on TED, where Brussels-based bodies carry Belgian addresses and so count in Belgium's TED totals (the Commission's DG JRC alone had 12 open tenders in TenderRadar's October 2026 data). Contracts above €15,000 but below those thresholds are advertised online instead, mainly on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, which TenderRadar does not cover.
In the language(s) set in the procurement documents, which follow the buyer's language: Dutch in Flanders, French in Wallonia, German for the German-speaking Community, and often both French and Dutch for Brussels-Capital and federal buyers. English is accepted only where the documents say so. The e-Procurement platform itself works in Dutch, French, German and English.
Yes. Belgian procedures are open to companies from the EU/EEA and, for covered contracts, from countries in the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, and the e-Procurement platform is free for any supplier. Plan for a qualified electronic signature, home-country tax and social security certificates (Belgian buyers can only pull Belgian firms' data from their databases), equivalent proof of contractor accreditation for works, and a bid in the buyer's language.
You are notified of the award decision with its reasons. Challenges against public authorities go to the Council of State: a request for suspension must be filed within 15 days of notification (or of learning of the decision), extreme-urgency requests as fast as possible, and an action for annulment within 60 days. You must show an interest (a real chance of winning the contract and harm from the decision), and you can separately claim damages if you can prove loss caused by the decision.
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