Tag: Europe
Italy is auctioning its electricity, and the window shuts on Friday
Consip has six energy frameworks closing on 31 July, the largest covering 2,025 GWh. A Milan hospital's €529.6M services contract…
Spain has 238 framework agreements open right now
120 acuerdos marco and 118 Catalan acords marc are accepting bids, the largest at €376.7M. Each one settles who may…
The Wire Brief: week 29, 2026
A €930M gate opens in Andalucía, a third of Lithuanian tenders draw one bid, and one Latvian airport outweighs a…
What they bought: obstetric suction cups, specula and a singer
At the small end of the public record a Portuguese hospital priced disposable vacuum cups at €9,262 and a municipality…
Three markets published thousands of tenders and priced none of them
Uruguay recorded 729 awards without a single value. New Zealand and Nepal did the same across 239 and 495 notices.
Chart of the week: the median tender, six markets apart
Finland's typical published notice is €431,000. Spain's is €1,200. The gap is a publishing threshold, not an economy.
In Lithuania, one tender in three has no competition at all
Of 2,311 Lithuanian notices with a recorded bidder count this year, 833 drew exactly one bid. At Vilnius University the…
The typical Spanish tender is €1,200. The typical Finnish one is €431,000
Across six European markets the median published notice ranges over a factor of three hundred and fifty — and Poland…
The best data on procurement competition is not in Europe
Ghana, Liberia, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic record how many suppliers bid on nearly every notice. Most of the European…
Thirty-one currencies in one month of tenders, and no exchange rate anywhere
A single month of notices carries euros, dollars, Taiwanese dollars, Peruvian soles and Bhutanese ngultrum — stored as raw numbers…
Every country publishes tenders. Almost none publish the same things
Poland names every winner and states the value of nothing. Romania states values on 88% of notices and names no…
Calendar: what the rest of 2026 does to public procurement
The fourth quarter carries the year's heaviest buying, EU thresholds hold until 2028, and the funding cycle decides more than…