Answers

Straight answers, including the unflattering ones.

88 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.

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, 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 is tender intelligence software?

Tender intelligence software monitors public procurement portals, matches published tenders against what a company sells, and delivers a ranked shortlist instead of a raw feed. It differs from a tender alert tool, which sends keyword matches without judging fit. Intelligence platforms add scoring, document retrieval, deadline tracking and bid workflow. TRINTA is one such platform, built around a per-client keyword profile rather than a shared search index.

How does TRINTA work?

TRINTA works in five steps, four of which run without the client. First it reads your catalogue and builds a multilingual keyword profile. Second, your own agent pipeline scans 1010+ official sources daily. Third, every notice is scored 0 to 100 against your profile with the reasoning shown. Fourth, specifications and annexes are fetched and attached. Fifth, a short scored digest reaches your inbox each morning.

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.

What does TRINTA not do?

TRINTA does not write and submit bids for you, does not guarantee wins, and is not a public tender search engine anyone can query. The public archive was retired in July 2026, so there is no open database to browse. TRINTA also does not sell a self-serve subscription: every engagement starts with a demo call, because the keyword profile has to be built against a real product range before the radar is worth anything.

Who built TRINTA?

TRINTA was built by Lucas Viegas, who created it inside Ultra Controlo, a 40-year medical-gas manufacturer, and then opened it to other companies. TRINTA was built inside Ultra Controlo, the founder's family company, then productised. The numbers are from its live workspace. That relationship is disclosed everywhere the Ultra Controlo numbers appear, because the first client being the founder's family company is context a reader is entitled to have.

Coverage and data

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

Which countries does TRINTA cover?

TRINTA's platform registry spans 153+ countries with at least one mapped procurement platform, plus the multilateral funders. Coverage is deepest in Africa (490+ platforms), Europe (320+), Latin America (260+), Asia (230+) and the Middle East (120+), with smaller maps for North America (29) and Oceania (17). Each client activates the subset of sources that matches where it actually sells, rather than receiving everything.

How many procurement sources does TRINTA monitor?

TRINTA has mapped and verified 1,539 official procurement platforms, and puts 1010+ official sources under live daily coverage per client keyword profile. The scraper fleet holds 860+ dedicated connectors, each pulling dated rows from one portal without a login. The published figures are conservative floors under exact internal counts, not projections, and the coverage map is available as JSON at trinta.ai/coverage.json.

Which tender portals does TRINTA read?

TRINTA reads national and regional procurement portals directly rather than reselling an aggregator. Named examples include TED and the 27 EU national systems, Portugal's BASE.gov, Saudi Arabia's Etimad, Brazil's PNCP, Colombia's SECOP II, Chile's Mercado Público, South Africa's eTenders and CSD, Ghana's GHANEPS, Nigeria's BPP, and Ukraine's ProZorro, alongside the World Bank, the African Development Bank, UNGM, UNDP and the IDB.

Does TRINTA handle tenders in other languages?

Yes. TRINTA builds each client a multilingual keyword profile, so the same product range is matched against notices in the language each buyer publishes in. A French-language notice in Abidjan, a Portuguese one in Maputo and an English one in Nairobi are all scored against the same catalogue. This matters most in Africa and Latin America, where the largest markets do not publish in English.

Does TRINTA find below-threshold EU tenders?

Yes. EU buyers are only obliged to publish above-threshold contracts to TED, which means a large share of real opportunity never reaches it. TRINTA reads the national and regional portals of the member states alongside TED, so below-threshold contracts published only on a domestic system still surface. For smaller suppliers this is usually where the winnable work is, because the field is thinner than on TED.

How current is TRINTA's tender data?

The radar runs daily. Each client's activated sources are scanned every day, scored, and delivered as a morning digest, so the working data is never more than a day old. Separately, TRINTA holds an archive of 1,150,000 tenders analysed before July 2026, when the mass-scrape database was frozen. That archive is a past total used for buyer history and benchmarks, not a growing feed.

How does TRINTA score a tender?

TRINTA scores every notice from 0 to 100 against the client's own profile, reading what is being bought, where, at what scale, and how closely it matches what the client makes. The score is shown with its reasoning rather than as a bare number, so a bid manager can disagree with it. Scoring is semantic rather than keyword-based, which is why a differently-worded specification still matches a product it fits.

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 490+ African procurement platforms, the deepest region in its 1,539-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, publishes thousands of notices a day, 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 1010+ 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?

Public tenders in Portugal are announced in the Diário da República, Série II, Parte L, on the day the act is signed, then recorded on BASE.gov.pt, and each procedure runs on one of four licensed platforms: Vortal, acinGov, anoGov or ComprasPT. Above the EU thresholds the notice also reaches TED. TRINTA watches all of these daily, including the gazette on weekends, and publishes a Portuguese-language country guide at trinta.ai/concursos-publicos-portugal.

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 1,539 platforms across 153+ 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 do I track tender deadlines and corrigenda?

Tender deadlines move: buyers issue corrigenda, extend closing dates and answer clarification requests, and a bid team that reads only the original notice can submit against a date that no longer exists. In TRINTA every matched tender carries a dossier with the closing date and a countdown, the procurement documents attached and, in the Portuguese market, extensions and rectifications applied the same day they appear in the official gazette.

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.

How much does TRINTA cost?

TRINTA publishes three scopes. Radar is €2,000 to €2,500 per month (€24,000 to €30,000 per year) for one market. Pipeline is €4,000 per month (€48,000 per year) for teams bidding across regions. Command starts at €6,000 per month and is quoted for multi-country groups. Engagements start at 2,000 EUR per month (24,000 EUR per year) and scale with regions, modules and team size.

What changes the price of a TRINTA engagement?

Three things move a TRINTA price: how many markets the radar covers, which of the seven modules are switched on, and how many people need seats. All three scopes run the same product core, so a smaller price buys narrower scope rather than a weaker version. Contracts are annual, billed annually or monthly at a small premium, invoiced by bank transfer with purchase order support.

Does TRINTA have a free trial or a free plan?

No. TRINTA has no free tier, no self-serve signup and no open trial, because a radar is worthless until a keyword profile has been built against a real product range. Every engagement starts with a twenty-minute demo call in which the team runs your actual catalogue against live sources. That call is free and shows real tenders for your company, not a generic sandbox.

How do I get started with TRINTA?

Book the twenty-minute demo call at trinta.ai/demo. Before it, the team reads your website and product range and runs them against live sources, so the call opens on tenders that actually exist for your company rather than a scripted tour. If it fits, the engagement is scoped from there. There is no signup form that leads anywhere useful without that step, by design.

How long does TRINTA take to set up?

The client-side work is one conversation. TRINTA reads your website and catalogue itself, so there is no data upload, no CRM integration requirement and no implementation project. The first scored digest follows once the keyword profile is built and the relevant sources are activated. Four of the five steps in the process run without the client at all; the only recurring human step is reading the morning digest.

Is TRINTA sold on an annual contract?

Yes. TRINTA contracts are annual, billed annually or monthly at a small premium, and invoiced by bank transfer with purchase order support for buyers whose finance teams require one. There is no month-to-month rolling plan. The annual shape follows the work: a keyword profile and an activated source set are built per client, and a procurement cycle rarely resolves inside a quarter.

Fit and alternatives

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

Who is TRINTA for?

TRINTA suits companies that sell into public buyers across more than one country and lose opportunities because nobody has time to watch the portals. In practice that means manufacturers and exporters, multi-country groups, NGOs and development organisations bidding on donor-funded work, and consultants running tenders for several clients. The common trait is a real product range and a market wider than one national portal.

Who should not buy TRINTA?

TRINTA is the wrong tool for a company selling into a single national portal it already watches well, for anyone wanting a searchable public tender database, and for a business whose first bid is still hypothetical. At €2,000 per month minimum it needs a pipeline worth defending. A firm that bids twice a year in one country is better served by that country's own free portal alerts.

How is TRINTA different from a tender alert tool?

A tender alert tool matches keywords and emails you everything that hits them, which is why alert inboxes get muted. TRINTA scores each notice 0 to 100 for fit against your actual catalogue, shows why, fetches the procedure documents, and carries the opportunity through a bid board to a recorded outcome. The difference is judgment and follow-through: an alert tells you a tender exists, TRINTA tells you whether it is worth your week.

Why not just use TED or the free national portals?

Because they are single-source, single-language and unranked. TED carries only above-threshold EU contracts, so below-threshold work published on national systems never appears there, and no official portal scores a notice against what your company makes. Watching ten portals by hand is a job, not a tab. TRINTA reads those same official sources, 1010+ of them daily, and returns a ranked shortlist instead of a chronological list.

Should we build tender monitoring in-house instead?

Building it is realistic for one or two portals and unrealistic across a region. The cost is not the first scraper, it is the 860+ of them, each breaking when a portal changes markup, plus scoring, document retrieval and multilingual matching. TRINTA maintains that fleet as its product. If your target market is one national portal with a clean API, in-house is the honest answer and TRINTA will say so.

Is TRINTA a replacement for a bid consultant?

No, and it works best alongside one. A bid consultant writes and positions the submission; TRINTA decides which submissions are worth writing and hands over the case file with deadline, value, criteria weights and disqualifying traps already extracted. Consultants are also direct clients: several use TRINTA to run tender discovery for a portfolio of companies at once rather than watching portals per account.

Can I just use ChatGPT to find tenders?

A general assistant can explain how a procurement system works, which is useful, but it cannot watch 1010+ portals every morning, hold a persistent profile of your catalogue, fetch annexes from behind portal navigation, or tell you a framework you lost is aging toward re-tender. Those are stateful, scheduled jobs. TRINTA uses language models inside that pipeline rather than as the pipeline.

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 153+ 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.

What should we ask in a tender software demo?

A tender software demo should run on your company, not on a polished sample. Ask to see the sources for your actual markets, a real notice scored against your catalogue with the reasoning visible, the procurement documents pulled for one live tender, and how a moved deadline shows up. Ask what happens when the tool is wrong. TRINTA's demo is built on your own catalogue before the call, which is also the fastest way to expose its limits.

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.

Can TRINTA feed our own systems?

TRINTA's radar output is not locked in its own interface. Matched, scored tenders reach a team as a morning email digest and through the private workspace, and from the Pipeline scope up also programmatically through an API, with an MCP server that lets a client's own AI assistants query the radar directly. The principle is that the finding layer should land wherever the bid team already works, not force a new destination.

Proof and results

The outcomes on record, with the relationships disclosed.

Does TRINTA actually work?

The published record is small and specific rather than large and vague. At Ultra Controlo, week one surfaced a EUR 700,000 hospital tender the team had not seen; it was won 2 weeks later, and month one qualified EUR 30M+ in opportunities. A newer client, kept anonymous, won 2 tenders in its first month, EUR 130,000 and EUR 60,000, EUR 190,000 combined.

What is the Ultra Controlo case study?

Ultra Controlo is a 40-year medical-gas manufacturer and TRINTA's first client. In week one the radar surfaced a EUR 700,000 hospital tender the team had not seen, and it was won 2 weeks later. Month one qualified EUR 30M+ in opportunities. The relationship is disclosed rather than buried: TRINTA was built inside Ultra Controlo, the founder's family company, then productised. The numbers are from its live workspace.

Does TRINTA guarantee that we will win tenders?

No. TRINTA does not guarantee wins and does not price against them, because whether a bid wins depends on price, references and the submission itself, none of which a radar controls. What TRINTA is accountable for is coverage and ranking: that the tenders you could win reach you in time, with the documents and the deadline attached, instead of being found after the closing date.

How do you measure the return on TRINTA?

Through the Results module, which records outcomes rather than activity. It tracks what was bid, what was won and lost, buyer history and pipeline value, so the radar is measured in awarded money instead of leads delivered. The honest baseline before that data exists is the tenders a company missed last year, which is usually the number that makes the case in a demo call.

Security, data and trust

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

Where does TRINTA host client data?

TRINTA runs on European infrastructure. Application compute and the Postgres database are both hosted in London, United Kingdom, on Vercel and Neon over AWS eu-west-2, and client data does not leave Europe in normal operation. The UK is covered by the European Commission's adequacy decision, so GDPR-grade protections apply end to end. The full posture is published at trinta.ai/security.

Is TRINTA GDPR compliant?

TRINTA is built GDPR-first, with European hosting, encryption in transit and at rest, per-client workspace isolation and a published sub-processor list. The Privacy Policy sets out what is collected, why, and for how long. TRINTA does not claim certifications it does not hold: the security page states the deployed posture rather than a badge, and questions from a buyer's legal team before an engagement are expected.

Is client data shared between TRINTA customers?

No. Each client gets a private, isolated workspace with its own agent pipeline, its own keyword profile and its own activated sources. Nothing about one client's catalogue, scores or pipeline is visible to another, and TRINTA does not sell client data. The radar is deliberately per-client rather than a shared index, which is also why there is no public search surface to leak into.

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 Nigeria?

Nigeria's federal tenders publish through the Bureau of Public Procurement, on its portal and on NOCOPO, the open contracting portal. Below the federal layer, states such as Lagos and Kaduna run their own procurement portals. TRINTA maps 11 Nigerian sources across both levels. Watching Abuja alone undercounts the market: the state that buys what you sell may publish only at home. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/nigeria.

Where are government tenders published in Kenya?

Kenya publishes public tenders through three national channels, the Public Procurement Information Portal at tenders.go.ke, the regulator PPRA and the e-GP system, plus a long tail of health buyers with their own tender pages. TRINTA maps 20 Kenyan sources, 6 of them in the health system. For a medical supplier, the hospital pages matter as much as the portal. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/kenya.

Where are government tenders published in South Africa?

South Africa's official publication point is the National Treasury's eTenders portal, but provinces, metros and state-owned enterprises publish a large share of procurement on their own platforms. TRINTA maps 21 South African sources across those layers. The buyers with the biggest budgets are exactly the ones publishing on their own addresses. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/south-africa.

Where are government tenders published in Brazil?

Brazil made the PNCP, the Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas, the reference publication point, with the Diário Oficial da União carrying federal notices. States and large municipalities publish through their own systems: TRINTA maps 31 Brazilian sources, most of them regional. For most suppliers the contract that fits is regional, published on a state or municipal address. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/brazil.

Where are government tenders published in India?

India publishes central government tenders on the CPPP, the Central Public Procurement Portal, and runs day-to-day purchasing through GeM, the Government e-Marketplace. State corporations and the health system publish on their own portals. TRINTA maps 27 Indian sources, roughly half of them state enterprises. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/india.

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.

Where are government tenders published in France?

France publishes central government consultations on PLACE, the state procurement platform, and formal announcements in BOAMP, the official bulletin, with a dense layer of regional and local buyer profiles beside them. TRINTA maps 27 French sources. Above the EU thresholds, French notices also appear on TED. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/france, and in French at trinta.ai/reponses/france.

Where are government tenders published in Spain?

Spain publishes public procurement on the Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público, with the BOE's contracting section beside it and autonomous regional platforms, Catalonia's among them, publishing on their own. TRINTA maps 13 Spanish sources. Above the EU thresholds, Spanish notices also appear on TED. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/spain, with a Spanish-language version at trinta.ai/licitaciones/espana.

Where are government tenders published in Italy?

Italy's procurement publishes across Consip's national purchasing platform, the anticorruption authority's BDNCP legal advertising platform and the Gazzetta Ufficiale, with health and regional buyers publishing beside them. TRINTA maps 11 Italian sources. Above the EU thresholds, Italian notices also appear on TED. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/italy.

Where are government tenders published in Ukraine?

Ukraine publishes public procurement through Prozorro, one of the most open national systems anywhere: procedures, bids and awards are public by design. TRINTA maps 7 Ukrainian sources, Prozorro first among them. The daily question in so open a system is attention rather than access: which of today's procedures fit what a company sells. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/ukraine.

Where are government tenders published in Egypt?

Egypt publishes government tenders through its state procurement portals, etenders.gov.eg and the GEPS platform, with state-owned enterprises and agencies publishing directly beside them. TRINTA maps 12 Egyptian sources. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/egypt, with an Arabic version at trinta.ai/ar/government-tenders/egypt.

Where are government tenders published in Jordan?

Jordan publishes government tenders through JONEPS, its online e-procurement system, alongside the Government Tenders Directorate and the General Supplies Department, each with its own site and notices. TRINTA maps 11 Jordanian sources. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/jordan, with an Arabic version at trinta.ai/ar/government-tenders/jordan.

Where are government tenders published in Argentina?

Argentina publishes national procurement through COMPR.AR for goods and services and CONTRAT.AR for public works, with the official gazette's third section carrying contracting notices, while the provinces run their own systems. TRINTA maps 40 Argentine sources, the deepest country map in its Latin American registry. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/argentina, with a Spanish version at trinta.ai/licitaciones/argentina.

Where are government tenders published in Mexico?

Mexico publishes federal procurement on ComprasMX, the national digital platform that replaced CompraNet, while states and agencies keep their own channels. TRINTA maps 12 Mexican sources. The name change matters in practice: guides that still say CompraNet point at the past. The full map is at trinta.ai/government-tenders/mexico, with a Spanish version at trinta.ai/licitaciones/mexico.

Which countries have a public tender source map on trinta.ai?

trinta.ai/government-tenders holds a source map for 124 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia: 1392 sources counted in total, with the national channels named on every page and the rest counted by category. Beside the English pages sit the Portuguese dossier for Portugal, 12 francophone country pages under /marches-publics and 12 Spanish country pages under /licitaciones.

How competitive public tenders actually are

Three states publish enough of their own contract data to answer this by counting rather than surveying. 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 3.7%, 3 8.6%, 4 9.9%, 5 12.5%, 6 to 10 18.4%, more than 10 30.2%, counted on 6,183 procedures in janeiro a julho de 2026. A procedure that draws a single bid closes about 0.6% below the ceiling; one that draws more than ten closes about 30.2% 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 procedures split into lots are excluded, all 12,968 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 13.9% of concursos públicos, France 17.4% of appels d'offres ouverts, Colombia 57.9% of licitaciones públicas. Each is counted from that state's own open register, not estimated. Direct awards are excluded everywhere, because there the buyer picks who bids and a single offer is the design rather than a finding.

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 37.5% of open procedures against 2.9% for division 77; in France, CPV division 48 sits at 64.9% 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.

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 58.2% 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 does a public tender give suppliers to respond?

Fewer than most assume. In the Portuguese notices measured for January to July 2026, the median window between publication and the closing of bids is 14 days, counted on 19,164 notices. 36.0% give ten days or fewer, 30.9% give 11 to 20, 25.4% give 21 to 30 and only 7.7% give more than 30. The practical consequence is the case for daily monitoring: a supplier who finds a median notice a week after it opens has spent half the window, and in the third that give ten days or fewer has three days or less left. Legal minimums are a different question and vary by procedure and country; this is what buyers actually set.

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 151,702 contracts; France notified 99,437 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.

Which month is the busiest for public procurement?

It depends on the country, and it is measurable. In Portugal, for January to July 2026, the strongest month by contracted value was 2026-04 (€2,558 million) and the busiest by count was 2026-03, with 24,306 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.

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 17,634 opening announcements Portugal published from 2 January to 7 August 2026, one of the few markets with a complete open register: construction companies lead with 3,532 announcements (20%), medical equipment suppliers follow (17.4%), 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 construction company find public tenders?

A construction company watches CPV division 45, construction work, plus 44 for materials and 71 for the design services that precede the works. Construction is the largest measured slice of public buying: in Portugal alone, 3,532 opening announcements in 2026, 20% of the market, spread across every licensed platform. The buyers are local by nature, so the regional and municipal layer matters more here than in any other sector.

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 on recurring cycles, which makes the renewal calendar the real opportunity. In the measured Portuguese register, division 90 carried 776 opening announcements in 2026 with 1,035 distinct winning companies in the year: many small, frequent contracts rather than a few large ones.

Where does an IT company find public tenders?

Public IT work spans three CPV divisions: 72 for IT services, 48 for software and 30 for hardware. In the measured Portuguese market of 2026 they carried 641, 355 and 543 opening announcements respectively. Public IT is less contested than its reputation: in the same register, software procedures show the highest single-bid share of any measured division, so the barrier is usually knowing in time, not out-competing a crowd.

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 713 opening announcements in 2026, with 2,262 distinct winning firms in the year. 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 3,063 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: 820 opening announcements in 2026 and 3,756 distinct winning companies in the year, the highest of any division. Contracts recur annually and locally, which rewards suppliers who see every renewal in their district rather than 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 682 opening announcements in 2026 with 2,666 distinct winners. These are relationship contracts that renew on known cycles, so the practical edge is watching the renewal dates of the installed base you can serve.

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