A daily front page and a weekly digest
The front page now reads like a daily edition: what arrived overnight, what closes soon and what was decided. A weekly digest rounds up the same seven days in one place, so a Monday catch-up takes a minute.
Release notes
What's new on Aperlena
Aperlena ships something most days. This page keeps the record, newest first, so a returning reader can see what changed since their last visit.
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Your workspace grows up
Saved tenders now carry the award outcome, a bid or no-bid worksheet, follow-up dates and a work-back plan from the deadline. All of it lives on the tender page itself, in a workspace that opens where you are already reading.
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Faster ways to find and judge a tender
Compare tenders side by side, keep a shortlist, move through results with the keyboard, and copy or print a one-page brief. A glossary explains the jargon, and every buyer page now shows its publishing rhythm and who usually wins there.
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Small things across the site
Guests see what is new since their last visit, signed-in readers get a home page built around their own searches, phones get a tab bar, and this page tells you what shipped. You can also add Aperlena as a search engine in your browser's address bar.
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One icon family
Every glyph on the site now comes from one set, Phosphor, with one weight per job. The list rows, the spot illustrations and the small interface marks finally look like they were drawn together.
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Alerts by webhook, and three new sources
Alerts can now post to Slack, Discord or Microsoft Teams as well as to your inbox. Three sources joined the index: award decisions from Romania and Greece, and World Bank procurement notices.
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A new name: Aperlena
The site is now called Aperlena and lives at aperlena.com. Nothing else changed: the same sources, the same accounts, the same free access.
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Add a deadline to your calendar
Every tender page now offers add-to-calendar links for its deadline: Google Calendar, Outlook or a plain .ics file for any other app.
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Dark theme
Aperlena follows your system theme and offers a toggle in the header for those who prefer to choose. Every colour on the site was rebuilt as a pair, so tables, charts and badges stay readable at night.
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The Recompete Radar and the Aperlena Verdict
The radar lists contracts that are about to expire and will likely be tendered again. The Verdict takes a stance on whether a race is open or already locked by the incumbent, and its track record is published, unedited, for anyone to check.
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The observatory, the CPV explorer and region collections
The statistics observatory charts the European procurement market by country and sector. The CPV explorer walks the whole classification tree with live counts, and every NUTS region now has a collection page of its own.