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Check out our video tutorials for a demonstration of how to use specific functions of the TED website.
Please note that the video tutorials are only available in English.

 

Features of the TED website

Main features of Tenders Electronic Daily (TED):

Browse by:

  • Business opportunity
  • business sector (using the common procurement vocabulary) (CPV)
  • place of performance (using the nomenclature of territorial units for place of performance (using the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) or countries, or other relevant countries). 

Search - to find specific notices (includes quick, advanced and expert search).

Search results - lists all notices that meet your search criteria. In addition, it is possible to:

  • refine your search results
  • create a Search alert
  • download the search results
  • share the search results

Notice View – allows you to:

  • download notices
  • share notices
  • create an alert
  • request a translation
  • check the related notices
  • use the machine translation service

My Dashboard – your personal space on TED where you can:

  • save up to 25 search profiles
  • create RSS feeds for the saved profiles
  • view and modify the search alerts
  • view and modify the notices

Customise the preferences of your TED account to:

  • manage the number of items per search result page
  • manage the number of items for custom RSS
  • manage the displayed notices and other aspects
  • create a personal address book

Bulk download of notices in XML format 

  • Bulk download notices in monthly or daily packages

Release Calendar

  • Instantly check the latest OJ S issue
  • Download previous releases per specific day or
  • Download an annual release

Search API to:

  • Search for and retrieve data published on the TED website

Select a language

Select the language you want to use for browsing from the ‘Language Selector’ in the upper-right corner of any TED page.

You can choose from the EU’s 24 official languages and change the language at any time.

Registered users

To access the whole content of the TED website you must be a signed-in user. An EU Login account is needed for this.

  • If you already are a registered EU Login user, you can log in submitting your credentials.
  • Otherwise, you can register by creating a new EU Login account (https://ecas.ec.europa.eu/cas)

Being a signed-in user, allows you to:

  • manage your account preferences
  • save notices to your account
  • save search profiles to your account
  • create alerts or RSS feeds and get new notices of interest sent directly to your email inbox or RSS reader

Create a TED account

To create a TED account:

  1. Click on Log in / Register in the upper-right corner of the home page.
  2. You will be redirected to EU Login, where you can create a new account. If you already have an account, you can use the same credentials to access the service.
  3. To confirm registration, click the activation link in the email. You will be redirected to the TED registration form to confirm certain information.
  4. Choose your country and check the TED privacy rules.
  5. Click Confirm.

Log in

To log in, in the upper-right corner of the home page click on Log in / Register and enter your credentials.

Sign out

To sign out from the TED website:

  1. In the upper-right corner of the home page, click on your displayed name.
  2. Select Sign out.

You have successfully signed out from the TED website, but you are still signed in to EU Login. Follow the steps provided in the pop-up message to sign out from EU Login.

Modify TED account details

To modify your account details, you must be a signed-in user:

  1. In the upper-right corner of the home page, click on your displayed name.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Apply your changes, then click Update.

Delete your TED account

To delete your TED account, you must be signed in:

  1. In the upper-right corner of the home page, click on your displayed name.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. In the ‘User account section’ click on Delete.
  4. Click on Confirm.

All your personal data will be deleted.

Your account will be automatically deleted if it remains inactive for longer than 120 days. An automatic email will be sent to your email address before the deletion (90 days, 60 days, and 30 days before the deletion).

Browse by subject

At any time, as you navigate to the TED website, through the ‘Search section,’ you can search for notices selecting to browse by a specific subject:

  • Business opportunity
  • Business sector (CPV)
  • Place of performance

By default, the ‘Active notices’ are displayed, but you can choose to limit the number of displayed notices, by selecting Current OJ S issue in the “Search scope” heading.

Browse by business opportunity

This option displays the published notices by groups or by specific types of business opportunities. You can choose to view specific notices by selecting a group of Business opportunities or a specific type.

In addition, you can use the ‘Filter box’ to search for a specific type of business opportunity. The results that match your search criteria will be highlighted in yellow.

Browse by business sector (CPV)

This option displays the published notices filtered by business sector. These business sectors are categorised in tree form, based on the 'Common procurement vocabulary' (CPV).

Expand the tree to search for specific notices.

In addition, you may use the ‘Filter box’ to search for a business sector or CPV code. The results that match your search criteria will be highlighted in yellow.

Browse by place of performance

This option displays published notices by location of contract execution.

You can use the map on the right section to browse using the NUTS nomenclature (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics), or by countriy. The default view for the map is countries, but using the menu on the right, you can:

  • Zoom in / Zoom out
  • View the map in another NUTS level (NUTS 1, NUTS 2, NUTS 3)
  • Fullscreen / exit Fullscreen

The different colours identify the number of notices in the specific place of performance.

The legend is displayed in the bottom left corner of the map.

Instead of using the map, you may navigate using the left section, in which you can search by:

  • Expanding a specific place of performance
  • Typing in the Filter box to find a specific place of performance. The results that match your search criteria will be highlighted in yellow.

Each time you select the expand button for a specific place of performance, the map responds to your choice. By clicking on a specific place of performance you will be taken to the search results page, containing the notices for the that place of performance.

Search for notices

You may choose between the 3 search types to search for notices:

  • Quick search
  • Advanced search
  • Expert search

Search scope

There are 3 possible search ranges, depending on the scope you want: 

  • Current OJ S issue - notices published in the current OJ S issue.
  • Active notices - restricts the search to the most recent notices. This usually means for ‘Planning’ notices, those sent for publication over the past 364 days; for ‘Competition’ notices, it will search notices for which the deadline has not passed; and for ‘Result’ notices, the range is notices sent for publication in the past 99 days.
  • All notices - search notices from the last 10 years (data available from 1/1/2014)

Search results

The Search results page displays the notices which correspond to your search criteria. The search criteria you have defined are visible at the top of the page. You have the option to disable the display of the search criteria in the results list at any time, through the ‘Preferences’ section of your account.

The number of the displayed results per page are based on your preferences. As a signed in user, you can change the number of items per search results page (10, 25, 50, 100) in the ‘Preferences’ section of your account at any time. You may navigate to a next/previous page using the ‘Page navigator’ or by typing a specific page number into the Page number input box.

Create search alert (signed in users only)

You can create a search alert, to be notified about new results matching your search. You can select one of the following frequencies for the alert:

  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Fortnightly
  • Monthly

You can have up to 25 search alerts. After reaching the maximum number, you can only save an additional alert, if you overwrite an existing one. You can view and modify your search alerts at any time in the ‘My Dashboard’ section.

Create notice alert (signed in users only)

After selecting at least one notice from your search results list, you can select the option to Create a notice alert. In this case, every time a related notice is published you will receive an email notification. You can view and modify your notice alerts at any time in the ‘My Dashboard’ section.

Download

You can download the entire search results list, or specific selected notices in:

  • PDF in the browsing language
  • PDF in the official language
    • For signed in users the limit is 15,000 notices
    • For guest users the limit is 3,000 notices
  • XML
    • For signed in users the limit is 45,000 notices
    • For guest users the limit is 9,000 notices

Export list

You can export additional metadata for the entire list, or for specific selected notices in:

  • Excel
    • For signed in users the limit is 150,000 notices
    • For guest users the limit is 30,000 notices
  • PDF
    • For signed in users the limit is 150,000 notices
    • For guest users the limit is 30,000 notices
  • CSV
    • For signed in users the limit is 450,000 notices
    • For guest users the limit is 90,000 notices

To export the list, you must select at least one metadata field. You can use the ‘Filter box’ to search for metadata.

Share/edit the URL

At any time, you can copy the URL and share it with another user. The recipient will be able to view the same results as you. As the search query parameters are part of the URL, you can directly edit the URL defining a new search query and retrieve the updated corresponding search results.

Example: Your URL is the following (after the ‘?’ you can find the parameters of the search query):

  • search/result?FT=paris&search-scope=ACTIVE

The above search query means:

  • Search scope is 'Active notices'
  • Checks notices which include the free text (FT) phrase 'paris'

By editing the URL you can instantly change the search scope, by replacing ‘ACTIVE’ with “ALL”:

  • search/result?FT=paris&search-scope=ALL
    • To search using ‘All’ notices scope
  • search/result?FT=paris&search-scope=LATEST
    • To search using the ‘Current OJ S issue' scope

Or change the free text (FT), by replacing the phrase ‘Paris’ with another phrase:

  • search/result?FT=luxembourg&search-scope=ACTIVE
  • search/result?FT=agriculture&search-scope=LATEST

Notice view

The 'Notice view' page displays a notice in your current browsing language. To visualise a notice in another language, you can select a different one from the ‘Language selector’ in the upper-right corner of the page.

For every notice, you can find a Summary at the top of the page with the key information for the notice, as well as the section ‘Languages and formats’ right below. Through this section you can download the signed PDF of the notice in the official language, or download one of the available translations in PDF format.

Additionally, you can download a notice in HTML format through the 'Machine translation' section. If the icon is missing for a language, it means that the HTML translation is not yet available. In this case, you may request a translation first (this functionality is available for signed in users).

On the left side of the page, there is the table of contents, which is collapsed by default. You can expand and directly navigate to a specific section. Above the table of contents you can find all the available actions.

Download XML

By selecting this option, you can download the notice in XML format.

Create an alert (signed in users only)

By creating an alert, every time a related notice is published, you will receive an email notification. You can view and change them at any time in the ‘My Dashboard’ section.

Send by email (signed in users only)

You can send a notice via the email you have used to sign in to TED. You can make entries in the following fields:

  • Last name
  • First name
  • Type a message
  • Define the recipient’s email, or select it from your ‘Personal address book’

Request a translation (signed in users only)

You can request an automated translation in a specific language in the following formats: PDF, HTML

When the translation is ready, you will receive it via email. Furthermore, it will become available in the section ‘Machine translation HTML.

Back to to results list

At any time, you can navigate back to the ‘Search results’ page, to view again the list of the notices which met your search criteria.

Next/previous

You can use these options to navigate to the next/previous notices based on your search result list. These options are available to any user who has made a search.

My Dashboard

In the “My Dashboard” page, as a signed in user, you have an overview of your saved searches, alerts and notice related information, organised in the following sections.

My saved searches / My recent searches

This table has two tabs:

My saved searches

  • You have an overview of all the notices (up to 25) for which you have created a ‘Save Search’. For every saved search, you can:
    • Rename
      • Rename the Saved search and Activate/deactivate the RSS feed (by default it is activated):
        • When activated, an RSS icon is visible in the table. Clicking on it leads to the RSS page corresponding to this saved search, where you are able to subscribe to this RSS feed. You can also customise the number of items displayed in your customised RSS feed within the 'Site preferences' page.
  • Edit query
    • This option redirects you to the Advanced or Expert search page (depending on the method you initially used to create the query).
  • Delete
    • Delete the selected saved search

My recent searches

  • Under this tab, you will see a record of the most recent searches you have performed on the TED website. By clicking on a search, you will be redirected to the corresponding results page. Furthermore, through the ‘Actions’ column, you can add a recent search to your saved searches.

My search alerts

This table displays the ‘Search alerts’ you have created (up to 25), as well as their frequency. For every search alert you may perform the following actions:

  • Rename
    • Rename the Search alert, and update the alert frequency:
      • Daily
      • Weekly
      • Fortnightly
      • Monthly
  • Edit query
    • This option redirects you to the 'Advanced' or 'Expert' search page (depending on the method you have initially used to create the query).
  • Delete
    • Delete the selected search alert

My notices / Recently viewed notices

This table has two tabs:

My notices

  • This tab displays the notices for which you have created a notice alert. For each notice, you can perform the following actions:
    • Edit
      • You can define a 'Reminder date' or activate/deactivate the alerts
        • If the alert is activated a ‘bell’ icon is visible in the 'Alert' column
    • Delete
      • Delete the selected notice alert

Recently viewed notices

  • This tab displays the list of notices you have viewed most recently on the TED website. By clicking each notice in the list, you will be redirected to the corresponding 'Notice view' page. Furthermore, through the 'Actions' column you can Create an alert for any of the notices, and manage it through the ‘My Notices’ tab.

Preferences

On the 'Preferences' page, as a signed in user, you can customise the preferences in your user account and your site preferences.

User account

This section provides an overview of your account. You have the option to change your specified country, and go to your EU login account to update your information.

Site preferences

In this section you can customise your TED site preferences. The available options are the following:

  • Number of items per search result page (10, 25, 50, 100)
  • Number of items for custom RSS (10, 25, 50, 100)
  • Display codes (Activate / Deactivate)
    • displays or hides the codes used for the advanced search
  • Display search criteria in result list (Activate / Deactivate)
  • Highlight full text search patterns (Activate / Deactivate)
    • Highlights the text you searched for in the results page and in the notice view page
  • Default notice scope
    • choose a different search scope for notices:
      • Current OJ S issue
      • Active notices
      • All notices
  • Preferred language
    • Choose your default user interface language among the 24 official EU languages. This is also the language in which you will receive your email notifications.
  • Information to display in the list of search results
    • You can customise the information you see in your search results list, by selecting or deselecting any of the following available items (checkboxes):
      • Place of performance
      • Nature of contract
      • Name of authority
      • Type of procedure

Personal address book

You can create your own personal address book with a list of email addresses (up to 10). From this list, you will be able to choose the recipient’s email address for sending notices by email (using the Send by email action in the 'Notice view' page).

XML bulk download

You can download xml notices in bulk from the TED portal.

  • daily package: file containing all the notices in xml format for each day.

  • monthly package: file containing all the notices in xml format for each month.

You can download the packages using the user interface or using a direct link. There is no need to sign in to download the daily or monthly packages.

Download package via user interface:

  • click XML bulk download to access the ‘XML bulk download’ page

  • From this page:

    • select the tab ‘Daily packages’ or ‘Monthly packages’

    • select the year and the month

    • navigate to the page to select the package

    • click the Download button

Download packages using a direct link:

  • URL format for daily packages:

  • URL format for monthly packages:

RSS feeds

RSS feeds send automatic updates on the latest notices published, broken down by business sector.

Release calendar

The Release calendar page provides details of the OJ S and the publication dates for the current and past years. To access the various published editions, click Release calendar on the homepage. You can select a specific month and year from the dropdown lists and view the specific issue.

Additionally, you can download an annual release for a specific year in the following formats: XLS, PDF, CSV.

Search API

The search API provides multiple read-only operations on the TED website data.  The user can execute the POST request to search notices. 
Detailed documentation is available here: https://ted.europa.eu/api/documentation/index.html 

Sitemap

This page facilitates navigation in the TED website by providing links to all the main content.

Contact

Through this page, you can contact the TED helpdesk team for additional information.

After you submit a message, you will receive a verification email in your registered email. You must verify your email address in this email, to have your message submitted to the TED helpdesk team.