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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 5 different companies have won the last 5 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 5 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe European Parliament is procuring a framework contract for daily monitoring and analysis of Italian media. The service covers written press (national and regional), audio-visual media including radio and TV, and the main online media in Italy. The contractor will deliver timely press reviews compiling daily information on how topics relevant to the European Parliament and the European Union are reported. The buyer is the Parliament's Directorate-General for Communication, which seeks detailed knowledge of media coverage of EU affairs and of the activities of the President and Members of the European Parliament. Services will be delivered by the external team through the Parliament's global media monitoring and analysis platform directly to recipients, supporting communication of EU policies to citizens and target audiences.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Quality: 50 percent; Price: 50 percent
As the official notice states them.
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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 3 days ago
What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 16 awards for Culture, sport & recreation in Belgium.
- This notice
- €400,000
- Median award
- €558,643
- Middle half of past awards
- €212,961 to €1.0M
The estimate sits inside the usual range.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileEuropean Parliament, SG - Directorate-General for Communication
- notices in the register
- 19
- awards
- 10
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 10
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 30%
Based on 10 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 4.1
- of those lots received a single tender
- 27%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 70%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLIP NEWS SA | 1 | Jul 2026 | |
| NEWTON Media a.s. | 1 | Jun 2026 | |
| REPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SPAIN, SLU | 1 | Jul 2026 | |
| Retriever Danmark A/S | 1 | Jul 2026 | |
| Slovakia Online s.r.o. | 1 | Jun 2026 |
Based on 5 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
4 open tenders right now
- News-agency services - Monitoring and analysis services of the Irish media 7 days left
- Repair, maintenance and related services for personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audiovisual equipment - Operation, maintenance and improvement of the press room of the European Parliament in Strasbourg 20 days left
- Public relations services - Support for the organisation of events and other communication and information activities of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Poland 26 days left
Market context
Larger than 65% of the open notices in Culture, sport & recreation across Europe.
- open now in Culture, sport & recreation
- 811
- median open notice
- €170,750
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersBelgium · Culture, sport & recreation
- different companies won awards here
- 49
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 8%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 26
Based on 50 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 43%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
Similar tenders
Open now
7
days left
€250,000
est. value
Open elsewhere in Europe
Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
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