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.

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.