Market access · 124 countries
Where an EU company may bid, and what says so
The single market covers 21 of them, the WTO procurement agreement 10, and a trade agreement with the EU another 19. For the other 74 there is no instrument at all, and that is the answer most exporters are missing when they pick a market.
The single market · 21
The single market, and the countries that adopted it without joining. A company established in the EU bids on the same terms as a company established there, above the thresholds under the directives and below them under the Treaty principles.
Same terms as a local firm
The WTO procurement agreement · 10
Parties to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement. Each one filed annexes naming the buyers, the services and the value thresholds it opened. The right is real and its edges are in those annexes.
A right above the thresholds it listed
- Armenia 12
- Australia 16
- Canada 13
- Israel 11
- Japan 8
- Moldova 6
- Singapore 10
- Ukraine 7
- United Kingdom 17
- United States 14
A trade agreement with the EU · 19
A trade or association agreement with the EU that carries a public procurement chapter. Narrower than the single market and just as annex-bound: read the chapter before you plan around it.
Whatever the agreement's annexes list
- Albania 16
- Belize 10
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 19
- Chile 10
- Colombia 10
- Costa Rica 9
- Dominican Republic 11
- Ecuador 7
- El Salvador 10
- Georgia 6
- Guatemala 5
- Guyana 12
- Honduras 5
- Jamaica 15
- Mexico 12
- Panama 6
- Peru 8
- Suriname 5
- Trinidad and Tobago 19
No reciprocal agreement · 74
No reciprocal instrument. Whether a foreign firm may bid is left to national law and to the tender documents, which can require local registration, an agent or local content. Being a fellow WTO member changes nothing: the procurement agreement is separate and opt-in. What does not depend on any of it is procurement financed by a development bank or a UN agency, bought on the funder's rules rather than the country's, and each of these 74 pages names the 9 funder channels this site reads every day.
National law decides
- Algeria 24
- Angola 9
- Argentina 40
- Azerbaijan 16
- Bahrain 6
- Bangladesh 27
- Benin 17
- Bolivia 18
- Botswana 30
- Brazil 31
- Brunei 27
- Burkina Faso 6
- Burundi 14
- Cabo Verde 12
- Cambodia 10
- Cameroon 13
- Central African Republic 5
- China 7
- Comoros 5
- Congo 7
- Cote d'Ivoire 5
- Djibouti 9
- DR Congo 12
- Egypt 12
- Eswatini 14
- Ethiopia 16
- Gabon 5
- Gambia 16
- Ghana 15
- Guinea 8
- Haiti 6
- India 27
- Iraq 5
- Jordan 11
- Kazakhstan 5
- Kenya 20
- Kuwait 7
- Lebanon 5
- Lesotho 5
- Liberia 6
- Libya 6
- Malawi 11
- Malaysia 8
- Mauritania 9
- Mauritius 10
- Morocco 12
- Mozambique 6
- Namibia 13
- Nepal 5
- Nigeria 11
- Oman 7
- Pakistan 17
- Palestine 8
- Paraguay 5
- Philippines 8
- Qatar 10
- Rwanda 7
- Sao Tome and Principe 6
- Saudi Arabia 13
- Seychelles 5
- Sierra Leone 9
- Somalia 5
- South Africa 21
- South Sudan 7
- Sri Lanka 14
- Tanzania 9
- Togo 6
- Tunisia 5
- Turkiye 8
- Uganda 12
- United Arab Emirates 14
- Uruguay 7
- Uzbekistan 8
- Zimbabwe 9
Tell us the markets, we send the map
Name the countries you are weighing up. You get back where public tenders are published in each one, how much of that we read every day, and what an EU company needs before it may bid there. An email, not a call.
What this does and does not say
Access is always relative to where you are established, and the company in view here is one established in the EU. A firm in another country reads a different table. This is not legal advice: the instruments named grant what their annexes list, and the tender documents of a particular procedure can require things no agreement overrides. Where a country sits under “no reciprocal agreement”, that does not mean a foreign firm cannot bid, only that nothing obliges the country to let it. The number beside each country is how many sources this site has mapped publishing its public tenders, which is a separate question from whether you may bid for them.