EU procurement, from notice to award

Publish notices, answer questions, evaluate and award. You run the entire process in Tenpu, even if it takes place in phases.

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EU procurement, from notice to award

Publish notices, answer questions, evaluate and award. You run the entire process in Tenpu, even if it takes place in phases.

Book a demo

EU procurement, from notice to award

Publish notices, answer questions, evaluate and award. You run the entire process in Tenpu, even if it takes place in phases.

Book a demo

Once published, it is published

European tendering is the most formal route in the procurement profession. From the moment the contract notice is published, your contract is visible to everyone and your award criteria are legally locked in. If you manage your preparation across Word versions, inboxes, and Excel sheets, you will only find out what was overlooked after the notice goes live.

Once published, it is published

European tendering is the most formal route in the procurement profession. From the moment the contract notice is published, your contract is visible to everyone and your award criteria are legally locked in. If you manage your preparation across Word versions, inboxes, and Excel sheets, you will only find out what was overlooked after the notice goes live.

Once published, it is published

European tendering is the most formal route in the procurement profession. From the moment the contract notice is published, your contract is visible to everyone and your award criteria are legally locked in. If you manage your preparation across Word versions, inboxes, and Excel sheets, you will only find out what was overlooked after the notice goes live.

How a European tender works in Tenpu

European tendering is a family of procedures, from open to innovation partnership, and Tenpu supports them all. The building blocks are always the same. Below is the open procedure, from contract notice to award.

  1. The set-up is already in your documents

    You don't start from an empty form. Upload your statement of requirements, your procurement advice or a previous tender, and Tenpu turns it into a first draft: planning, documents and criteria in the structure of an EU tender. You decide what stays.

  2. Test your award model before it is fixed

    Before publication, calculate how weighting, scores and price together pick a winner. If something is off, you adjust it now. After the contract notice, you can't.

  3. Announce on TenderNed and TED

    Publish your contract notice from the same tender, in the mandatory eForms format, with the fields filled from your tender itself. No retyping into a second system.

  4. Answer questions for the whole market

    Questions come in within the tender, you answer them in one place, and the answers go to all bidders at the same time, bundled in the published Q&A.

  5. Evaluate and award with justification

    The bids sit side by side, evaluators score in the same system, and reasoning is recorded during the evaluation itself. When the standstill period starts, your justification is already written.

  6. The tender file is already there

    What you did in steps one to five is the tender file, from contract notice to award decision. And the complete tender file stays available and searchable, even years later.

The workspace of procurement teams at:

  • Coppa
  • the Alliance
  • SIR Intergov
  • Contractables

The workspace of procurement teams at:

  • Coppa
  • the Alliance
  • SIR Intergov
  • Contractables

The workspace of procurement teams at:

  • Coppa
  • the Alliance
  • SIR Intergov
  • Contractables

What you saw here is not a separate module. The European tender is one of the procedures in the same workspace, which also supports your negotiated tenders and dynamic purchasing system, from initial draft to signed contract.

From initial draft to signed contract

Dynamic purchasing system in Tenpu

What you saw here is not a separate module. The European tender is one of the procedures in the same workspace, which also supports your negotiated tenders and dynamic purchasing system, from initial draft to signed contract.

From initial draft to signed contract

Dynamic purchasing system in Tenpu

What you saw here is not a separate module. The European tender is one of the procedures in the same workspace, which also supports your negotiated tenders and dynamic purchasing system, from initial draft to signed contract.

From initial draft to signed contract

Dynamic purchasing system in Tenpu

Frequently asked questions about European tendering

If the estimated contract value is above the European threshold. The threshold amounts are revised every two years and differ depending on the type of contract and organisation; you calculate and record the estimate beforehand.

Five: the open procedure, the restricted procedure, the competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation, and the innovation partnership. The open procedure has one phase; the others begin with a selection phase.

You publish a single contract notice. You post it on TenderNed, and it is also published on TED in the eForms format.

The standstill period between the award decision and the conclusion of the contract, during which unsuccessful bidders can challenge the decision. You only make the final award once this period has passed.

Frequently asked questions about European tendering

If the estimated contract value is above the European threshold. The threshold amounts are revised every two years and differ depending on the type of contract and organisation; you calculate and record the estimate beforehand.

Five: the open procedure, the restricted procedure, the competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation, and the innovation partnership. The open procedure has one phase; the others begin with a selection phase.

You publish a single contract notice. You post it on TenderNed, and it is also published on TED in the eForms format.

The standstill period between the award decision and the conclusion of the contract, during which unsuccessful bidders can challenge the decision. You only make the final award once this period has passed.

Frequently asked questions about European tendering

If the estimated contract value is above the European threshold. The threshold amounts are revised every two years and differ depending on the type of contract and organisation; you calculate and record the estimate beforehand.

Five: the open procedure, the restricted procedure, the competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation, and the innovation partnership. The open procedure has one phase; the others begin with a selection phase.

You publish a single contract notice. You post it on TenderNed, and it is also published on TED in the eForms format.

The standstill period between the award decision and the conclusion of the contract, during which unsuccessful bidders can challenge the decision. You only make the final award once this period has passed.

Bring your next tender along

In the demo, we will set up your next European tender together. That way, you will see the procedure in your own procurement rather than in a sample project.

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