Guides
Plain-language guides to European public procurement - how it works, and how to win.
Contents
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Where notices are published, how they are classified and how to read one.
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1. Guide 04: What is TED? Europe's official tender database explained
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) publishes hundreds of thousands of public contracts a year from every EU country. How it works, what gets published there, and how to actually find things in it.
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2. Guide 01: What are CPV codes and how to use them
A plain-language guide to the Common Procurement Vocabulary - the EU-wide codes that classify every public tender, and how to use them to find the right contracts.
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3. Guide 06: How to read a contract notice: the anatomy of an EU tender
A contract notice packs everything that matters - buyer, scope, money, deadlines, criteria - into a standard structure. Learn to extract the go/no-go facts in five minutes.
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4. Guide 03: EU procurement thresholds explained (2026-2027 values)
The euro amounts that decide whether a public contract follows EU-wide rules and appears on TED - the current 2026-2027 thresholds, what they mean for bidders, and what happens below them.
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5. Guide 35: Below-threshold tenders: the larger market that never reaches TED
Most public contracts in Europe are too small for the EU rules and are published only on national and regional portals, under simpler procedures. What changes below the thresholds, how each country publishes, why these contracts suit smaller companies, and how to find them without watching thirty portals.