Reference · Step by step

How public procurement actually works.

Three procedures, written to be followed rather than admired: finding the tenders that fit what you sell, bidding on one, and getting registered before a deadline makes it urgent. No rule of law is invented here, because procedures vary by country and by contract, and the documents of each procedure govern. What these guides give you is the shape, the order, and the steps people skip.

01How to find public tenders7 steps

A step-by-step method for finding public tenders that fit what your company sells: your codes, the portals in your markets, and a daily cadence.

02How to bid on a public tender9 steps

What happens between finding a tender and submitting a bid: the documents, eligibility, the bond, the technical offer, pricing and the clock.

03How to register as a government supplier6 steps

The registrations between a company and its first public bid: platform accounts, supplier registries and the documents each one asks for.

The tools these steps use

Several steps have a page that does the work rather than describing it: the codes that classify your catalogue, the thresholds that decide where a contract publishes, a scorecard for the bid decision and a calculator for the deadline. They are free and they need no account.

CPV codesEU thresholdsBid or no bidCalculadora de prazosSource maps by country