The Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) website publishes the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU (OJ S) according to the requirements of EU public procurement law. Every year over 250 daily issues of the OJ S include around 800 000 public procurement notices, worth more than €815 billion. TED helps economic operators find business opportunities from around the EU and provides a transparent and accessible cornerstone of digital procurement.
The business opportunities published on TED are published as notices, which cover the stages of procurement, such as planning, competition and results. Notices are submitted by European public buyers through national or commercial solutions (eSenders) or the eNotices2 application. The current format of public procurement data is the eForms open standard.
TED data is available as open data, which allows users to analyse it for insights. At EU level, this is done, for example, in the Public Procurement Data Space and Single Market Scoreboard. The data is also reused by public authorities for policy analysis, by companies for planning, and by academics as well as civil society, for any commercial or non-commercial purpose.
The data from TED is available through data.europa.eu, where the Publications Office provides all notices in extensible mark-up language (XML) format, while the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs provides a smaller subset of this data (covering just some years, countries, and types of notices) as comma-separated values (CSV).