TED Tenders — Monitor the EU's Official Procurement Journal Automatically
Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) is the European Union's official journal for public procurement notices. Any contract above the EU threshold values — approximately €140,000 for services and goods, €5.4 million for construction works — must be published in TED before it can proceed. This makes TED the single most important source for companies targeting cross-border EU procurement opportunities.
TED publishes around 1,000 new notices every working day across all 27 EU member states plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. Notices arrive in the official language of the contracting country — a Lithuanian municipal notice comes in Lithuanian; a French central government notice comes in French. For companies monitoring multiple countries, this creates a significant language and volume barrier to effective manual monitoring.
Awarda connects to the TED v3 API to ingest new notices in real time. The platform reads the structured eForms data — CPV codes, contracting authority details, estimated contract value, submission deadline, and notice type — and evaluates each notice against your profile. Results are consolidated across all monitored countries and delivered as a ranked daily digest with fit scores and key details, eliminating the need to maintain manual TED searches in multiple languages.
For companies that also need to monitor below-threshold national tenders — contracts too small for TED publication — Awarda supplements TED coverage with national portal data. This means a single platform covers both EU-wide above-threshold opportunities and the national below-threshold market in your target countries.
Monitor TED tenders freeFrequently asked questions about TED tenders
What is TED and which tenders are published there?
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the official online publication of EU public procurement notices, operated by the Publications Office of the European Union. It publishes procurement notices for contracts above the EU threshold values: approximately €140,000 for services/goods (central government), €215,000 (sub-central), and €5.4 million for works contracts. All 27 EU member states plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein are required to publish above-threshold notices in TED.
How often is TED updated and how do I access it?
TED is updated every working day with approximately 1,000 new notices. The current TED API (v3) provides programmatic access to the full notice database, including eForms structured data. The TED website (ted.europa.eu) offers manual search and free email alerts. Awarda uses the TED v3 API to ingest new notices in real time and score them against subscriber profiles.
Can I monitor TED tenders for multiple countries at once?
Yes. TED covers all EU member states plus EFTA countries, so a single TED subscription or monitoring setup can surface relevant notices from across Europe. Awarda lets you configure which countries to include in your monitoring profile — you can watch a single country or all 30+ covered markets simultaneously.