TED vs National Procurement Portals: Key Differences Explained
Awarda Editorial··5 min read
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) and national portals like CVP IS, DTVP, and BOAMP serve different scopes. Here's how they relate and why monitoring both matters.
What TED covers — and what it doesn't
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU's official procurement journal, published by the Publications Office of the European Union. It covers all contracts above the EU directive thresholds: approximately €143,000 for central government service and supply contracts, €221,000 for sub-central bodies, and €5.5 million for works contracts. Every EU member state must publish above-threshold notices in TED.
TED does not cover below-threshold contracts. These are published exclusively on national or regional portals — and they represent the vast majority of procurement by volume. In Lithuania, this is CVP IS; in Germany, DTVP and evergabe; in France, BOAMP; in Poland, BZP.
National portals: the below-threshold layer
Each member state has its own e-procurement infrastructure with different search capabilities, data formats, and update frequencies. Some portals publish machine-readable APIs (like Lithuania's CVP IS); others require HTML scraping or session-based access. Coverage quality and update frequency vary significantly.
For a supplier targeting a single country, the national portal is often more important than TED. For cross-border suppliers, TED is essential — but monitoring only TED means missing the large volume of below-threshold contracts in each target market.
How Awarda bridges both layers
Awarda ingests TED daily via the official v3 API and monitors national portals on a per-country basis. Your profile selects both CPV codes and target countries — the platform combines both sources, deduplicates (above-threshold contracts appear in both TED and national portals), and delivers a unified, scored feed. You get the full picture without managing multiple portal logins.