Tender Search Engines Compared 2026: TED, DTAD, Oferent, France Marchés, TendFeed & Co.
Which services find public tenders in the EU — and how do they differ? An overview by market, with criteria and data.
Last updated: 17 July 2026
Transparency: this overview is maintained by TendFeed (a service of AnalystHAUS GmbH). TendFeed is itself a provider on this list. Third-party details come from the providers’ public websites (as of July 2026). Not a ranking — grouped by market, alphabetically.
The official source for EU-wide tenders is TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) — free of charge and full-text searchable. If you search only occasionally, you do not need a paid tool.
Paid services therefore differ not in WHETHER they find tenders, but in HOW: additional national sources, freshness, alerts, languages, analysis of award data, and integrations. The criteria below make those differences comparable.
What to compare
- Coverage: TED only (EU-wide) or additional national and municipal sources? Home market only or all EU countries?
- Freshness: How quickly do new tenders appear in the service? Are there delays in the free tier?
- Award data: Does the service analyse how many bidders comparable procedures had and who was awarded the contract — or does it only list open procedures?
- Languages: In which languages are the interface and content usable? Relevant for bidding outside your home market.
- AI and API access: Can the service connect to AI assistants (e.g. via MCP) or your own systems (API)?
- Trial and price transparency: Is the price published on the website? Is there a free trial without payment details?
Providers by market
EU-wide
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
The EU’s official source: all EU-wide tenders and awards, free of charge and full-text searchable. Every commercial tool builds on this data.
Swedish provider offering AI-assisted tender search, focused on the Nordics.
Portuguese eProcurement platform used by contracting authorities to run procedures; strong in Portugal and Spain.
EU-wide search built on TED data, in all 24 official EU languages. Each tender comes with a competition-density assessment derived from 592,000 analysed awards with a reported bidder count. Public pricing: €99/month, 30-day free trial without a credit card, cancel monthly.
Germany
Poland
Polish tender-monitoring service covering Polish and EU sources with daily e-mail alerts.
One of the oldest Polish tender-information services (TAI group).
Polish tender portal with search and alert features.
France
French public-tender portal backed by regional daily newspapers.
French provider of tender monitoring and early project detection, part of a larger information group.
French service for tender monitoring and bid support.
What the award data shows
How crowded the competition for public contracts really is can be measured. The TendFeed Study 2026 analysed 592,091 EU contract-award notices with a reported bidder count (TED, Nov 2023 – Jun 2026): 69% of the analysed awards had three bidders or fewer, 34% only a single bidder — the median bidder count across all sectors is 2.
Observed competition density is not a probability of winning. But it shows where a closer look is worthwhile — and that assessment is the core difference between a plain tender list and an analysis of award data.
Read the study with methodology and sector table
Where TendFeed differs
TendFeed is the only service on this list covering all 24 official EU languages, with a competition-density assessment for every tender derived from 592,000 analysed awards with a reported bidder count. Via its MCP interface, TendFeed connects directly to AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT.
Pricing is public on the website: €99/month, 30-day free trial without a credit card, cancel monthly.
Sources
- The TendFeed Study 2026: competition density in the EU procurement market (methodology, sector table)
- TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (Official Journal of the EU, raw data CC BY 4.0)
- Die TendFeed-Studie 2026 (German edition)
Observed competition density is not a probability of winning. Third-party details per the providers’ public websites, as of July 2026 — corrections welcome at info@tendfeed.eu.