Construction tenders across Europe: TED, the national portals and the rules behind them

Above the EU thresholds the same notice appears on TED and on the national portal; below them, look on the national portal, and in some countries on regional platforms too.

Directive 2014/24/EU sets the rules for contracts above the thresholds in every member state, and Norway applies it through the EEA Agreement. Notices go electronically to the Publications Office, which publishes them on TED within five days, in full in the language the buyer chooses and as a summary in the other EU languages.

Each country transposes the directives into its own law and adds rules of its own. These are the ones that most often decide whether a bid from outside the country is accepted.

Works financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development are procured by its clients, who publish their notices on ECEPP, the bank's client e-procurement portal, and the procurement notices page on ebrd.com lists the contracts not run through it. TED and the EBRD notices page are among the multilateral sources Bidligence reads; Bidligence keeps TED's construction notices (CPV 45). Development-bank tenders explains how lender-funded procurement works.

The list below shows the multilateral sources that returned tender notices to Bidligence in the last 30 days.

Bidligence reads the national sources below for new notices on a schedule. A portal from the table above that is missing here is one Bidligence cannot read automatically today: Ireland's eTenders, for example, builds its tender list in the browser, so there is no readable page to monitor. Above-threshold Irish works still reach you through TED.

New notices are matched against your watch profile (keywords, words to exclude, countries, regions, sources and a minimum value) and land in your opportunity inbox, with a daily or weekly digest e-mail. One click turns a notice into a bid, carrying the buyer, the deadline and the estimated value across; see tender alerts.

If a regional platform, city or utility you bid for is not listed, add its tender page or RSS feed to your workspace's sources. Bidligence then reads it daily, extracting the notices from a web page with AI, and matches them to your watch profile like any other source.

Some tenders appear only on regional platforms or agency websites. For the European countries below, Bidligence also runs an AI web search for new tenders during the country's local night, once a workspace watches that country, and what it finds lands in the same inbox. It is a second net across 66 countries worldwide, not a promise to find every notice, so keep the official portals in your routine.

The United Kingdom and the European Union are among Bidligence's 21 regional procurement profiles. Each sets the currency, the procurement rules, the typical buyers, the standards and the price sources that the analysis, the documents and the BOQ pricing work from: the UK profile brings in the Procurement Act 2023, most-advantageous-tender evaluation, social value, NEC4 and JCT, with BCIS and Spon's for pricing; the EU profile brings in the directive, the ESPD, life-cycle costing and the Eurocodes.

When you analyse a tender, Bidligence reads the bid security it asks for, the mandatory documents, and the closing date as it stands after every amendment you upload. The Bid Score rates the tender before you commit to pricing, and the Submission Guard checks each mandatory item against your Evidence Vault before you submit. The workspace can be read in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, among other languages; the tender and the bid documents stay in the language the tender asks for.