Answers

Straight answers, including the unflattering ones.

104 questions people actually ask about TRINTA and about public tender intelligence, answered in full rather than deflected to a demo call. That includes what TRINTA does not do, who should not buy it, and what the alternatives are better at.

What TRINTA is

The category, the product, and the honest boundaries of what it does.

What is TRINTA?

TRINTA is per-client public-tender intelligence software. It reads a company's website and product range, builds a multilingual keyword profile from what that company actually sells, then scans official government procurement sources every day and scores each notice 0 to 100 for fit. Procurement documents are retrieved and attached automatically. TRINTA covers Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, and is sold demo-first rather than self-serve. Finding tenders is the first step, not the product: TRINTA also reads each tender's specification in full into a dossier (real deadline, base price, award criteria and weightings, required certifications), watches pre-tender signals before the notice, keeps the award history of every public buyer and rival supplier, organises consortium partners, runs the bid pipeline with a first draft built from the award criteria, and audits lost tenders for grounds to challenge.

What is the difference between tender monitoring AI and bid-writing AI?

Tender monitoring AI decides which tenders are worth answering; bid-writing AI helps write the answer. A monitoring platform such as TRINTA scans official procurement portals every day, matches each notice to what a company sells and scores it for fit, so the bid team reviews a short list instead of a raw feed. A bid-writing tool starts from a tender the team has already chosen and drafts or checks the proposal against its requirements. Most teams need the first before the second: a well-written bid for the wrong tender is still a lost week.

Does TRINTA only find tenders, or does it also analyse them?

Both, and the analysis is the part that saves the week. For every tender worth opening, TRINTA reads the procedure documents in full and fixes what matters at the top of a dossier: the real deadline, the base price where one is set, the award criteria with their weightings, the required certifications and guarantees. The score each tender carries is explained, not oracular, so the reasoning can be checked against the specification. Downstream of the reading there is a bid pipeline with a first draft built from the award criteria, and when a tender is lost, Forensics audits the award decision for grounds to challenge. What TRINTA deliberately does not do is replace the people who write the proposal: it hands them the read, the draft and the deadlines.

Does TRINTA track competitors and award history?

Yes, from the official award records. Results keeps the history of every public buyer and rival supplier: who bought what, from whom, at what price, and how often a given rival wins in your market. Signals watches the stage before the notice, prior information notices and framework agreements approaching their end, so a tender can be anticipated rather than discovered. The same award data, aggregated, is what TRINTA publishes openly in its barometers for Portugal, France and Colombia; the per-client view applies it to your buyers and your rivals. Award records are published with a lag and coverage varies by country, and the product says so per source instead of pretending completeness.

Where are local council contracts published?

Above the national threshold a British council publishes to Find a Tender Service, the service that took over from TED for United Kingdom procurement after Brexit. Below it, and that is most council spending by count, the notice appears on the council's own portal or on the regional system it belongs to, and there are many of those. TRINTA maps 17 official sources for the United Kingdom, 12 of them read by a dedicated connector, and the counted breakdown is where the difficulty shows: 5 regional, state and municipal buyers with portals of their own. A supplier watching only the national service sees the large contracts and misses the recurring local ones, which for most small suppliers is the market. The same shape holds in most countries: national portal for the big procedures, a long tail of municipal systems underneath.

What are the alternatives to TRINTA?

Six, and they are categories rather than a vendor list, because a table of guesses about someone else's current feature set is unfair and goes stale. The alternatives a buyer actually weighs are: the free national portals and TED, which are authoritative and single-source; keyword alert tools, which match words and email results; building the monitoring in house, which is a weekend for one portal and a product with an on-call rota for a region; bid consultants and tender writers, who write the submission rather than decide which to write; a general AI assistant, which explains a procurement system well and cannot watch hundreds of portals every morning; and carrying on exactly as you are, which is what most companies actually choose. Each has a page here that ends by arguing for it. What TRINTA does and does not do is published row by row on its capabilities page, including what is not implemented, so the comparison can be made against something checkable rather than a claim.

What modules does TRINTA include?

TRINTA has seven modules on one shared core. Radar runs the daily scan and scoring. Signals surfaces pre-tender intent, including prior-information notices and frameworks aging toward re-tender. Case Files reads procedure documents for deadlines, values, criteria weights and disqualifying traps. Pipeline is a twelve-status bid board with an AI first draft. Partners tracks local installers and distributors. Results records outcomes. Forensics dissects awards a client lost.

Coverage and data

Which sources are watched, how many, and what the published numbers actually mean.

How many public procurement platforms are there in the world?

Nobody publishes an official world count of public procurement platforms, because each country buys through its own mix of national portals, regional systems, sector boards and official gazettes. TRINTA's registry gives a working count: 1,627 official procurement platforms mapped and verified across 170+ countries, of which 250 national-level channels have a page each on this site. They do not share a name: of those 250, 51 say procurement, 23 portal, 12 compras or contratación, and only 21 use the word tender.

Finding tenders in practice

The how-to questions: one region, one portal or one deadline at a time.

How do I find government tenders in Africa?

Government tenders in Africa are spread across national portals, ministry sites, state-owned utilities and the development banks that fund much of the work, and most never reach a global aggregator. TRINTA maps 480+ African procurement platforms, the deepest region in its 1,627-platform registry, and scans a client's activated subset daily. The practical route is to pick the countries you can actually serve and watch those sources completely, rather than watching everything thinly.

How do I monitor TED without reading it every day?

TED, the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily, published 215,323 standard contract award notices alone from January to July 2026, about 1,016 a calendar day before any call for competition is counted, so reading it directly does not scale. CPV-code filters help but miss notices filed under a neighbouring code or worded differently from your catalogue. TRINTA treats TED as one source among 1360+ scanned daily: a multilingual profile of what you sell is matched against each notice, scored 0 to 100, and only the shortlist reaches your inbox.

How do I track World Bank and development-bank tenders?

Development-bank procurement runs on its own channels: the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNDP and the UN's UNGM portal all publish separately from national systems. TRINTA monitors the multilateral funders alongside the 75+ development-bank and institutional platforms in its registry, and matches their notices against a client's profile the same way as national tenders. For NGOs and contractors on funded projects, this is often where the winnable work is.

How do I find public tenders in Portugal?

To find public tenders for your company in Portugal, read the Diário da República every day, where open tenders are announced; open each procedure on the e-procurement platform the notice names, where the documents are and the bid is submitted; use the Portal BASE to see what was already contracted and by whom; and above the EU thresholds, check TED as well. First, the gazette: an open tender (concurso público) is announced in the Diário da República (Public Contracts Code, art. 130(1)), in Part L of the 2nd series, and the notice links to the procedure documents. Second, the platform: each procedure runs on one of the four platforms licensed by IMPIC (acinGov, anoGov, ComprasPT and Vortal), chosen by the buyer, and registering and the base services, from downloading the documents to submitting the bid, are free by law (Law 96/2015, art. 23(2)). Third, BASE: it records the contracts, who bought what from whom and at what price, but direct awards and consultas prévias have no notice and only appear there after the contract is signed. Fourth, TED: from EUR 140,000 for goods and services bought by the State, EUR 216,000 for other buyers and EUR 5,404,000 for works (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2152), the tender is also advertised EU-wide; below that, where most procedures are by number, it is only in the national sources. The business wallet of Portugal's gov.pt app, which is free to use, also sends companies notifications of open tenders in their field of activity, according to the State's technology agency (21 August 2026); the announcement does not say which sources it reads or how relevance is decided, and an alert by field does not show who usually wins. TRINTA reads these sources several times a day, scores each notice 0 to 100 against your catalogue with the reasoning shown, and adds who buys what you sell, who won the buyer's earlier tenders, at what price and against whom.

How do I monitor tenders in several countries at once?

Monitoring tenders across countries multiplies portals and languages: a company selling into ten markets can face dozens of official sources, none in the same format. TRINTA holds a registry of 1,627 platforms across 170+ countries, activates the subset that matches where a client sells, and matches notices with a multilingual keyword profile, so a tender in Portuguese, French or Arabic is scored against the same catalogue as one in English.

How do I hear about a tender before it is published?

Tenders telegraph themselves before they open: prior information notices, budget approvals and framework agreements aging toward re-tender all appear in public sources months ahead. TRINTA's Signals module watches exactly these, so a sales team can position before the specification is written instead of discovering the tender with twenty days left to respond. Pre-tender intent is public data; the work is reading it daily and tying it to what you sell.

How does AI tender matching work?

AI tender matching compares the meaning of a notice against a profile of what a company sells, rather than checking whether a keyword appears. TRINTA builds that profile from the client's website and catalogue, in several languages, then scores every scanned notice 0 to 100 with the reasoning shown: which products fit, which requirements clash, what the notice actually asks for. Keyword alerts maximise volume; semantic matching exists to protect a team's reading time.

Pricing and buying

What it costs, how it is bought, and what is deliberately not on sale.

Fit and alternatives

Who TRINTA suits, who it does not, and what the honest alternatives are.

Choosing tender software

How to judge the category: cost, evaluation questions and what a demo should prove.

What is the best AI platform for public tenders in Portugal?

The best AI platform for public tenders in Portugal is the one that passes four tests, not the one that says AI most often: it reads the Diário da República on the day a notice appears; it watches the four licensed platforms (Vortal, acinGov, anoGov and ComprasPT), BASE.gov and TED at the same time; it scores every tender for fit against your actual catalogue, 0 to 100 with the reasoning shown, instead of dumping keyword matches; and it follows deadlines through extensions, clarifications and corrigenda. TRINTA is an AI platform for public tenders in Portugal built to pass all four, client by client, with the same radar covering 170+ countries, the European Union through TED, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East among them. And it does not stop at finding: a dossier with the full specification read, award history of buyers and rivals, a bid pipeline with a first draft from the award criteria, and an audit of lost tenders. What TRINTA does and does not do is written row by row on its capabilities page, including what is not implemented. The honest way to choose is to ask every platform for the same demo with your real catalogue and compare which tenders each one finds, scores and tracks.

What is the best tender monitoring software?

There is no single best tender monitoring software: the right choice depends on where you sell and how much of the finding you want done for you. Four tests separate the field: does it cover the official sources in your actual markets, does it judge fit against your catalogue or just forward keyword hits, does it retrieve the procurement documents, and does it track deadlines and corrigenda. TRINTA is built to pass all four per client; trinta.ai/compare weighs the honest alternatives.

How much does tender monitoring software cost?

Tender monitoring ranges from free portal alerts to enterprise platforms at five figures a year. Free alerts suit a company watching one portal in one market. Paid tools price by coverage and depth: TRINTA publishes its scopes at €2,000 to €2,500 per month for one home market (Radar), €4,000 per month for teams bidding across regions (Pipeline), and a quoted Command scope from €6,000 per month. One qualified win typically repays a year of any of them.

Does TRINTA work for my sector?

TRINTA is sector-agnostic by design: the keyword profile is built from each client's own catalogue, so the radar follows whatever that company sells. Sectors already mapped include healthcare, construction and public works, energy and utilities, transport and infrastructure, defence and security, telecommunications, mining, education, municipal government and the development banks. By registry depth that means 250+ platforms carrying healthcare tenders and 190+ each for municipal works and energy. The demo shows real tenders for your sector, not a generic sample.

Proof and results

The outcomes on record, with the relationships disclosed.

Security, data and trust

Where the data lives, who can see it, and what is never done with it.

Where each market publishes

The publication map, country by country: the national channels, and how much publishes beside them. Every country page lives under trinta.ai/government-tenders.

Where are government tenders published in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia publishes government tenders on Etimad, the finance ministry platform where procedures are published and bids are submitted. TRINTA maps 13 Saudi sources in total: Etimad plus the agencies and health buyers that keep their own channels beside it. The notices publish in Arabic, on deadlines that do not wait, which is why the practical problem is daily reading rather than finding the platform. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/saudi-arabia.

Where are government tenders published in the United Arab Emirates?

The United Arab Emirates publish tenders at two levels: the federal government through the finance ministry's digital procurement channel, and each emirate through its own platform, Abu Dhabi's procurement gate and Dubai's eSupply among them. TRINTA maps 14 UAE sources across both levels. A supplier watching one emirate sees one emirate; no single federal page aggregates them. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/united-arab-emirates.

Where are government tenders published in the United Kingdom?

The United Kingdom publishes above-threshold notices on Find a Tender and lower-value contracts on Contracts Finder, while Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own portals: Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI. TRINTA maps 17 UK sources across the four nations. A watch limited to the England-facing services misses what the devolved nations publish at home. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/united-kingdom.

How competitive public tenders actually are

Three states publish enough of their own contract data to answer this by counting rather than surveying, and the EU Official Journal answers it for every member state at once. These answers read the same figures the barometer pages publish, and each names its universe, because a competition rate without one is not a number.

Does more competition actually lower the price in public tenders?

In the Portuguese register it moves with it, and the size is measurable. Comparing each open procedure's contracted price against the buyer's own published base price, the median discount rises at every step: 1 0.6%, 2 3.9%, 3 8.1%, 4 10%, 5 12.2%, 6 to 10 18.4%, more than 10 31.1%, counted on 7,326 procedures in janeiro a agosto de 2026. A procedure that draws a single bid closes about 0.6% below the ceiling; one that draws more than ten closes about 31.1% below it. Two things have to travel with that. It is an association and not a cause: whoever attracts ten bids is usually buying something more standardised than whoever attracts one. And contracts from procedures split into lots are excluded, all 15,190 of them, because the ceiling belongs to the whole procedure while the price belongs to one contract, and dividing the two makes lotting look like price pressure. Keeping them in would have produced a far more flattering curve and a false one.

How often does a public tender receive only one bid?

More often than the word tender suggests, and it varies by country more than by sector. On the open procedure in each state, over the same months of 2026: Portugal 13.8% of concursos públicos, France 17.5% of appels d'offres ouverts, Colombia 57.9% of licitaciones públicas. Each is counted from that state's own open register, not estimated. Across the European Union as a whole, on the 571,148 lots awarded through the Official Journal in the same period, 35.9% drew a single bid, and that figure is higher because the Official Journal carries the contracts above the EU thresholds while a national register also carries the smaller ones, which are more contested. Direct awards are excluded everywhere, because there the buyer picks who bids and a single offer is the design rather than a finding.

What percentage of EU public tenders receives only one bid?

35.9%, counted on 571,148 lots awarded through the EU Official Journal between January and July 2026. The median lot drew 2 tenders. The field is BT-759 of eForms, the count of submissions received, which every contract award notice in the Union must carry and which 164,798 of the 215,323 award notices in the period fill in. The unit is the lot rather than the notice, because a notice can award twenty lots and each is a separate contract bid for on its own. Two limits travel with the number: the Official Journal carries procurement above the EU thresholds, so this is the large end of every national market and not the whole of it, and only the total is counted, never the electronic, SME or non-EEA subsets, which overlap with each other.

What percentage of Portuguese public contracts receive a single bid?

In Portugal, 13.5% of public tenders drew a single bid from January to August 2026, counted by TRINTA on the 15,567 open procedures (concursos públicos) that reported their bidder list to Portal BASE, the national contract register. The median tender drew 4 bids and the mean 6.3. Direct awards are left out, because there the buyer chooses who is invited and one offer is the design, not a finding. Sector moves the figure most: CPV division 48, software package and information systems, reaches 38.9%.

What share of French public contracts receive a single offer?

In France, 18.7% of public contracts awarded after competition received a single offer from January to July 2026, counted by TRINTA on 81,783 contracts in the DECP, the essential procurement data the French state consolidates, field offresRecues. On open calls for tenders (appels d'offres ouverts) alone the share is 17.5% of 30,376. Contracts awarded without publicity or prior competition are excluded, because one offer is their design. 84.6% of contracts declare the count; the rest state "not communicated".

What share of Spanish public tenders receive a single bid?

In Spain, 38.1% of the 26,519 lots awarded through TED, the EU Official Journal, drew exactly one bid from January to July 2026, counted by TRINTA on eForms field BT-759, the number of tenders received that every award notice must carry. The median Spanish lot drew 2 bids and the mean 4.2; across the EU the share is 35.9%. This is the part of the Spanish market above the EU thresholds. Smaller contracts, published only on Spain's own platforms, are not in it.

What share of UK public contracts receive a single bid?

In the United Kingdom, 10.7% of the 16,033 competed lots awarded through Find a Tender drew exactly one bid from January to September 2026, counted by TRINTA on the bid statistics each award notice publishes in OCDS. The median lot drew 5 bids and the mean 11.3. Awards made without a call for competition, 8,235 lots, are excluded, because one bid is their design. The EU count cannot answer this: TED holds 60 British lots from January to July 2026, because the UK stopped publishing there after Brexit.

Which EU country has the least competition in public procurement?

Of the countries with at least a thousand lots in the EU Official Journal between January and July 2026, Poland 57.5%, Greece 55.9%, Slovenia 46.9%, Bulgaria 46.7%, Czechia 44.6% leave the most lots with a single bidder, and Switzerland 12.2%, Finland 17.2%, France 18.8%, Norway 19.5%, Ireland 20.6% the fewest. The European figure is 35.9%. Read each share next to its base: Poland 75,144 lots, Greece 5,177 lots, Slovenia 10,784 lots. Counted on eForms BT-759, lot by lot, never estimated.

Which sectors get the fewest bids across the EU?

On the EU Official Journal, January to July 2026: Collected and purified water 73.6% of 72 lots, Services related to the oil and gas industry 72.8% of 162 lots, Repair and maintenance services 58.4% of 18,319 lots, Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) 57.8% of 5,066 lots, Software package and information systems 54.4% of 3,297 lots, Public utilities 53.2% of 265 lots. At the other end, Construction work 13.5%, Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services 18.8%, Food, beverages, tobacco and related products 19.0%. A division is only listed above 30 lots, and a notice counts towards a division only when all of its CPV codes sit in that division, because the CPV list of a notice does not line up with its lots and any other attribution would be invented.

Which sectors of public procurement have the least competition?

Software, and it repeats across countries. In Portugal, CPV division 48, software package and information systems, draws a single bid in 38.9% of open procedures against 3.0% for division 77; in France, CPV division 48 sits at 63.9% against 12.1% for division 71, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services. Two independent national registers, same method, same top of the table. A supplier of software to the public sector is competing against far fewer people than the word procurement implies.

Why are there no EU-wide figures on how many bids public tenders receive?

Because the one EU-wide source that carries the field does not carry it consistently, and we tested that rather than assuming it. TED, the EU's notice journal, publishes a received-submissions count on award notices, so in principle every member state above the EU thresholds could be counted the same way. Reading seven months of award notices for three countries, 10,000 Italian, 4,443 Portuguese and the French set, shows why the principle does not survive contact: TED holds two different count fields, total tenders and tenders submitted electronically, and which one is trustworthy changes by country. France's total-tenders field reports zero on 15.4% of lots while its electronic field reports zero on 3.1%; Portugal is the mirror image, 2.0% against 18.0%. A zero on an award notice is impossible, because an awarded contract received at least one bid. In Italy the two fields disagree on a third of the notices that carry both, and the single-bid rate comes out at 33.3% or 30.0% depending purely on which field the analyst picks. Any headline built on that measures how buyers fill in a form, not how contested a market is. So the figures published here come from national registers that publish outcomes completely, Portugal, France and Colombia, and the countries without such a register are listed as not measured instead of being estimated.

Can you trust a published single-bid rate?

Only if it names two things: the procedure it counts and how much of it is disclosed. A rate over all awards folds in direct awards, which are single-bid by design, and inflates for a reason unrelated to competition. And bidder counts are not always published: Portugal reports a bidder list on 58.1% of open procedures, France fills its mandatory offresRecues field on 84.6% of marchés and the rest declare "not disclosed". TRINTA publishes both alongside every rate, so the figure can be checked rather than believed.

Which countries publish enough data to measure tender competition?

Few, and that is the constraint on any such comparison. Measuring competition needs the number of bidders per procedure, not just the award. Portugal publishes it in the Portal BASE contract register, Colombia in SECOP II process data, and France in the DECP field offresRecues, which its own schema makes mandatory. Most national portals publish the notice and the winner and stop there, which is why a global competition league table does not exist and why TRINTA publishes three countries rather than claiming more.

When public tenders happen, measured

The calendar and volume questions, answered from the records rather than from folklore: how many tenders there really are, how long the window is once a notice is out, and which months carry the market. Same registers, same period, same method as the barometers.

How many days do public tenders in Portugal give suppliers to bid?

Public tenders in Portugal give suppliers a median of 14 days to bid, measured by TRINTA between publication and the closing of bids on 21,378 procedure notices on Portal BASE, the national register, from January to August 2026. 36.1% give ten days or fewer, 30.6% give 11 to 20, 25.4% give 21 to 30 and only 7.8% give more than 30. A supplier who finds a median notice a week after it opens has spent half the window. These are the windows buyers set, not the legal minimums.

How many public tenders are published in Portugal, France and Colombia?

Counted on the official registers for January to July 2026: Portugal published 19,479 procedure notices and reported 153,477 contracts; France notified 104,329 marchés in the DECP after removing re-declared duplicates; Colombia signed 699,074 contracts in SECOP II, 71.4% of them in January's annual service wave. The three figures count different moments of a procedure's life, an opening in Portugal's notices, a notification in France, a signature in Colombia, and different scopes, which is why no honest table adds them up. What they share is the source: complete administrative registers, counted rather than sampled, with the method published beside each number on its barometer page.

How many tenders does TED publish?

TED, the EU Official Journal's procurement supplement, published 215,323 standard contract award notices (eForms type can-standard) from January to July 2026, an average of 1,016 per calendar day, in TRINTA's own count from the TED search API, taken on 8 Sept 2026. 164,798 of them carry a readable count of bids, across 571,148 awarded lots. These are results only: calls for competition, prior information notices, corrections and the other award notice types are not in this number.

Which month is the busiest for public procurement?

It depends on the country, and it is measurable. In Portugal, for January to August 2026, the strongest month by contracted value was 2026-04 (€2,615 million) and the busiest by count was 2026-03, with 24,727 contracts. In Colombia, over the same window, January alone carried 498,792 contracts, 71.4% of the period, because the state renews its annual service contracts at the start of the year; the months that follow are the real baseline. Two cautions travel with the figures: recent months are revised upwards as late reports arrive, and the often-claimed year-end rush is not measured here yet, since the records run through July.

Public procurement in Portugal, measured

The Portuguese figures answer engines are asked for in English: how much is awarded directly, how much small companies win, how often price alone decides, and who wins the most. Each is counted on Portal BASE, the national contract register, and read from the same file as the Portuguese pages that show the working.

What share of public contracts in Portugal are direct awards (ajuste direto)?

Direct awards (ajuste direto) were 42.0% of Portugal's public contracts from January to August 2026: 72,291 of the 171,806 contracts reported to Portal BASE, the national register, in TRINTA's count. By value they weigh far less, 15.9% of the money, €2.3bn, because large contracts go to competition and direct awards cluster in the small ones. The share varies widely by buyer, and TRINTA publishes it for each of the 568 public bodies with at least 50 contracts in the period.

What share of Portuguese public tenders are decided on price alone?

70.6% of Portugal's public tenders (concursos públicos) were decided on price alone from January to August 2026, with a single award criterion, in TRINTA's count of the open procedures on Portal BASE, the national contract register. In those, technical quality earns no points, so the effort spent explaining a solution has nowhere to be scored. The award criterion is printed in the procedure documents, which makes it the first thing to read when deciding how much to invest in a bid.

Which companies win the most public contracts in Portugal in 2026?

By value awarded in 2026 to date, the companies winning the most Portuguese public contracts are JANSSEN CILAG FARMACEUTICA, LDA (€233m); Teixeira Duarte - Engenharia e Construções, S.A. (€205.4m); ROCHE FARMACÊUTICA QUIMICA, LDA. (€197.8m), in TRINTA's count of Portal BASE, the national contract register, edition of 4 Oct 2026. By number of contracts the leader is Smile Viagens e Turismo Unipessoal Lda, with 2,947. They head the 1,650 companies with at least €1m awarded this year, each counted by its tax number (NIF) rather than its name.

Tenders by company type

What each kind of supplier should actually watch, anchored in the one market with a complete open register: Portugal, 2026, measured.

Which types of company bid most on public tenders?

Measured on the 19,035 opening announcements Portugal published from January to August 2026, one of the few markets with a complete open register: construction companies lead with 3,824 announcements (20%), medical equipment suppliers follow (17%), then business and security services, cleaning and waste companies, vehicle suppliers, engineering firms and maintenance companies. The mix is a fair proxy for what governments buy everywhere. The full measured table is at trinta.ai/plataformas-de-concursos.

Where does a cleaning company find public tenders?

Cleaning contracts run under CPV division 90, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services. Schools, hospitals, councils and courts buy them. In the measured Portuguese register, division 90 carried 840 opening announcements from January to August 2026, with 1,086 distinct winning companies in the same months: many small contracts rather than a few large ones. The date a contract ends does not, on its own, say when the buyer will go back to market; what counts is seeing each notice the day it is published and knowing, from the award register, who holds the current contract and at what price.

Where do engineering and architecture firms find public tenders?

Engineering and architecture firms watch CPV division 71, the design, supervision and inspection services bought before and during public works. In the measured Portuguese register it carried 785 opening announcements from January to August 2026, with 2,404 distinct winning firms in the same months. Because division 71 precedes division 45, it is also the earliest signal of construction pipelines: the study contract announces the works contract months ahead.

Where do medical equipment suppliers find public tenders?

Medical suppliers watch CPV division 33, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, and the hospital buyers who publish outside the national portal. In the measured Portuguese market, division 33 carried 3,241 opening announcements in 2026, and the platform concentration is extreme: Vortal hosted the large majority of everything the health system announced. Hospitals and central purchasing agencies are mapped as their own sources by TRINTA precisely because the national portal under-covers this sector.

Where do security and facility services companies find public tenders?

Security, surveillance and facility services run under CPV division 79, business services. It is the most crowded field in the measured Portuguese register: 888 opening announcements from January to August 2026 and 3,895 distinct winning companies in the same months, the highest of any division. In a field that crowded, what counts is seeing every notice in your district the day it is published, not only the few that make the news.

Where do maintenance and repair companies find public tenders?

Maintenance and repair contracts run under CPV division 50: buildings, vehicles, lifts, medical devices, whatever the state owns and must keep running. In the measured Portuguese register, division 50 carried 744 opening announcements in 2026 with 2,839 distinct winners. They tend to follow the installed base, so the award register says who maintains what today; it does not say when each contract will be tendered again, so the practical edge is seeing each notice the day it is published.

Still unanswered

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