How it works
Five things happen between a contract notice being published somewhere in Europe and an email arriving in your inbox. None of them involve you logging into a platform.
The pipeline
- 01
Collect
We pull notices from as many European platforms as we can reach — TED as the backbone, plus the national portals, because that is where the below-threshold contracts are published. Official APIs and open data first; a platform whose terms forbid automated access is not scraped, it is asked.
- 02
Translate
Title and short description of every notice are translated into a small, fixed set of target languages. Buyer names stay as they are (they are proper nouns). CPV and place names come from the official EU reference tables, in all 24 languages. Deadlines and values are carried over as dates and numbers, never translated.
- 03
Search
Full text plus semantic search, in your language, across everything. That is what makes “tram noise reduction” find the Greek notice that says “μείωση θορύβου τραμ” — you do not have to guess the Finnish or the Greek word.
- 04
Campaigns
A campaign is a saved search that keeps running: free text, countries, CPV ranges, notice types, optionally your company profile. New notices are matched as they arrive, and you get told at the frequency your plan allows.
- 05
Show and link out
Every hit shows the original, the translation and the link to the source platform. The procedure continues there — documents, questions, bid. That is the end of our part.
Which notices you get
Everything the source publishes, because an alert that only carries contract notices is incomplete: corrections move the deadline in roughly half the cases where they occur.
| Prior information | The earliest signal that somebody is preparing something. |
|---|---|
| Contract notice | The tender itself. |
| Correction | Often a moved deadline — which is why it is an alert, not a footnote. |
| Contract award | Who won, where, at what price. Market watch for consultancies. |
| Contract modification, cancellation | Where the platform publishes them. |
What the email looks like
The notification email is the screen you will see most often, so it is built to be read in ten seconds: number of hits, campaign, countries — in the subject line.
Plain text is always sent alongside the HTML. The footer carries an unsubscribe link per campaign, one for everything, and the imprint.
Three things we say out loud
Translations are machine translations and are labelled as such. The original is always shown next to them, because the original is the text that counts.
Deadlines are taken from the source and can change. What the platform says is what applies — we link there for exactly that reason.
We are a notification service. We do not guarantee that the collection is complete, correct or current, and we never hold the tender documents.