The official portals are free, authoritative and should be anyone's starting point; TRINTA exists because reading ten of them every morning is a job rather than a browser tab. TED carries only above-threshold EU contracts, so the below-threshold work published on national systems never appears there. No official portal scores a notice against what your company makes, none of them read each other, and each publishes in its own language and format. TRINTA reads those same official sources, 1010+ of them daily, and returns a ranked shortlist with the documents attached instead of a chronological list.
The honest case for the alternative, made first and made properly.
The specific failures that make companies go looking for something else.
| Dimension | TED and the free national portals | TRINTA |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | From €2,000 per month |
| Scope | One portal, its own jurisdiction and thresholds | 1,539 platforms mapped across 153+ countries, activated per client |
| Below-threshold EU work | Not on TED. On each national portal separately | National portals read alongside TED |
| Relevance | You read and judge every notice | Scored 0 to 100 against your catalogue before you see it |
| Daily effort | Manual, and it scales with the number of portals | One scored digest each morning |
| Forward view | None. Notices only, when published | Prior information notices and frameworks aging toward re-tender |
Real advice against the sale. If one of these describes you, this is the better buy and we would rather you made it.
No, and it should not. TED remains the authoritative legal publication point for above-threshold EU contracts, and any bid should be verified against the official notice. TRINTA reads TED alongside the national portals of the member states, scores what it finds against your product range, and attaches the documents, so TED is a source underneath TRINTA rather than a competitor to it.
Because relevance and reach are not what portals are built for. An official portal publishes accurately within its own jurisdiction and thresholds, in its own language, in publication order. It will not tell you that a notice in another country matches what you make, and it will not tell you a framework you could bid on expires next spring.
TRINTA's registry holds 1,539 mapped procurement platforms across 153+ countries, and puts 1010+ of them under daily scanning per client profile. No client needs all of them: each activates the sources matching where it actually sells. The realistic comparison for most companies is between eight or ten portals watched badly and the same ones watched every morning.
Still deciding? The answers page covers pricing, coverage and fit in full, and the demo call runs your own catalogue against live sources before we speak.