Public Procurement Data TED - Tenders Electronic Database

1. Public procurement Data
Tenders Electronic Daily Database
TED

2. Public Procurement?
• The procedure through which public authorities,
using public money, purchase works, services or
supplies from the private sector.
• Principles: Transparency, non-discrimination,
equal treatment, proportionality

3. Public Procurement!
• Why is it so important: around 14% of the GDP
of the EU is spent via public procurement.
• Why is it interesting? – Large amounts of data
are being generated daily, which indicate trends
in public investments, how this part of the
market performs, as well as problems and
deficiencies of the system.

4. Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• This is an online version of the 'Supplement to
the Official Journal' of the EU.
• Covers: notices from the European Economic
Area, Switzerland, and the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
• Around 1.700 notices each day
• For above threshold (5,2m € works, 135k €
services and supplies, with some exceptions)

5. Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• Many below-threshold notices are also present,
non-obligatory.
• Data provided "as is", sometimes with mistakes
as given by contracting authorities. Current steps
being taken to clean up (if you want to clean up a
lot for your projects, please contact us -
synergies)

6. Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• The data comes from public procurement
standard forms, based on EC Regulations filled in
by contracting bodies and sent to TED.
• The data is in (CSV) format.
• The variables correspond to the fields in the
forms – There are 3 levels: Contract Award
Notices (CAN) – result, Contract Awards (CA) –
within a CAN, and Contract Notices (CN) – future
• Usually enough to work in CANs

7. Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
What information is interesting:
Who is buying?
What are they buying?
Who responds and participates?
Who is awarded the contract in the end?
Which procedure, which award criteria?
What is the value of the contract?
For ease of classification of the "what", CPV codes
are used: http://simap.ted.europa.eu/cpv

8. How to get involved
The European Commission is interested in the
results of research on public procurement.
We would be grateful to receive any output based
on the data (e.g. papers, reports, links to
applications) at GROW-G4@ec.europa.eu.

9. More information: TED Wiki
To support the exchange of ideas, especially
between practitioners and academics, the
Commission hosts an open wiki with ideas for
research questions and existing examples of reuse
related to this dataset. This website can be a useful
inspiration for instance if you are a student looking
for a thesis topic.

10. Thank you!
DG GROW: Sandro Čavrak G1, Jachym Hercher G4
GROW-G4@ec.europa.eu
Links:
https://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/dataset/ted-
csv
https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/EPROC/
TED+Open+Data+Wiki.