Search and filters
Keyword search, meaning-based search, and the filters for country, source, CPV, stage, status and deadline.
The search page queries every portal we cover at once. Results are deduplicated, so one procurement published on both a national portal and TED appears once.
Two kinds of search
Keyword search matches the words you type against the title and description of a notice. It is literal: it finds the words you gave it, in the language they were published in. Good when you know the exact term your buyers use.
Meaning-based search (semantic search) embeds your query and finds notices that are about the same thing, across languages. Searching for "bridge maintenance" also surfaces "Brückensanierung". Good when you do not know the local vocabulary, or when a term has many synonyms.
Use meaning-based search to explore a market, keyword search to track a specific term.
Filters
| Filter | What it does |
|---|---|
| Country | The publishing country of the notice. The default "Europe" selection covers the EU, EFTA and the UK but not Ukraine, whose portal publishes more per day than all others together; pick it explicitly. |
| Region | NUTS regions inside a country, see Regions and the map filter. |
| Source | One specific portal, when you only care about, say, TED. |
| CPV | The procurement classification. Filter by division (the first two digits, broad) or by an exact code (narrow). |
| Stage | Tender, award, planning, and so on. See the glossary. |
| Status | Open, closing soon, closed. Only meaningful for tender-stage notices. |
| Published since | Hide anything older than a date. |
| Deadline from | Skip notices whose deadline is too close to respond to. |
| Value | A minimum contract value, where the buyer published one. |
| Buyer | The publishing authority. |
Filters combine: country plus CPV division plus open status is the usual starting point for a market overview.
Things worth knowing
- A missing value is not zero. Many buyers publish no contract value at all. A value filter therefore also removes everything unpriced.
- Deadlines are the buyer's local time as published on the portal.
- Closed notices are kept. They are the raw material for company research: who bids on what, who wins, how often a buyer tenders.
- Unclassified notices exist. Not every portal publishes CPV codes; a CPV filter hides those unless you include unclassified notices.
When you do this regularly
If you run the same search every week, it belongs in a search profile instead. A profile is matched automatically against everything new and can mail you the results.