How to Set Up Tender Alerts for Public Procurement

To set up alerts for public procurement tenders, you must first define a search based on the opportunities that interest you and are relevant to your business. Then, simply save this search and enable notifications. To do this, you can use official public procurement portals, such as the leading European portal, TED, or national platforms, or even a tender aggregation service to save time and ensure you don’t miss out on any opportunities by monitoring multiple sources of tenders from a single location.

How to Set Up a Tender Alert

1. Choose the procurement portals you want to monitor

Use TED for European public tenders and the relevant national procurement portals for country-specific contracts.

2. Create an account if required

Almost all procurement platforms require you to create an account in order to save searches and receive notifications. This is where you can set up or receive your notifications (by email in most cases).

3. Search for relevant public tenders

Start by searching for contracts related to your business activity. Most searches in Tenders are carried out using keywords, enter several of them and also select filters for the region and your sector to narrow down the results to only those relevant to you. The more specific your search is, the better the opportunities you will find.

4. Apply relevant filters

Refine your search using criteria such as:

• CPV codes
• Keywords
• Country or region
• Contract type
• Contracting authority
• Procurement value, where available

5. Save your search

Once the results match the types of opportunities you are looking for, save the search as a search profile.

6. Enable email notifications

Select the notification frequency offered by the platform so you can receive alerts when new public procurement match your search criteria.

Tip: Combine CPV codes and keywords

For more relevant results, avoid relying only on broad keywords. Combining relevant CPV codes with keywords and geographical criteria can help reduce irrelevant notifications.

Compare the Available Options

There are several ways to set up tender alerts. The best option depends on how many countries and procurement sources you need to monitor.

TED and national procurement portals can be useful when you only need to monitor a specific source or country.

However, if your business needs to search across multiple procurement platforms, managing separate searches and alerts on each portal can become more time-consuming, and you risk missing out on an opportunity because of the volume of tenders. A tender aggregation service can centralize the search, alert process in one place and allows you to access all calls for tenders in a single common language, such as English.

Using Tendeurope

Tendeurope allows businesses to monitor public tenders from multiple European procurement sources from one place.

Instead of having to create and manage separate searches on different tender portals and missing out on relevant opportunities at European level simply because you do not speak all the European languages, you can search for and understand relevant opportunities because they are all translated into English. You can also set up alerts based on your own criteria.

• CPV codes
• Keywords
• Countries
• Type of contract

When new public tenders match your criteria, you can receive notifications without having to manually check each procurement source individually.

Looking for public contracts across multiple sources?

Create a tender alert with Tendeurope and monitor relevant opportunities from one place.

Create a tender alert on Tendeurope