Reference corpus
Public procurement, as published
Contract notices from public buyers — who is buying what, where, and by when.
What’s in it right now
Read from the official procurement journal, covering public buyers across member states, with the full notice available for each record.
Each breakdown is a share of the records that carry that field, counted across the whole collection rather than per shelf — so they do not add up to one another.
What one record carries
- Buying authority
- Country
- Deadline
- Contract value band
- Subject of the contract
Every record also keeps the address it was read from, so any answer built on it can be followed back to the original.
What you can do with it
Four things this collection is kept for, and the questions behind them.
Find relevant contracts
Describe what you supply and find the notices that match, across languages and buyer terminology.
- Matched on the subject
- Buyer and country kept
- Deadline on every notice
See the buyer
Contracting authority and country on every notice.
Read the full notice
The published document itself, including the detail that decides whether it is worth bidding.
Track a market
New notices as they are published, so nothing is found a week late.
The kind of question it is filed to answer.
Procurement notices are written in the buyer's language and the buyer's vocabulary. Matching on the subject of the contract rather than on its wording is what makes them findable by a supplier.
And what comes back
- Notices matched to what you sellFound on the subject of the contract rather than on the buyer's phrasing of it.
- A list you can sort by deadlineBecause the date a bid closes is the only field that decides whether the rest matters.
- The published notice itselfIncluding the detail that decides whether it is worth bidding at all.
- 01Which public bodies are buying what I supply, and by when do they need it?
- 02What is the value band on this contract, and which authority is behind it?
- 03Which notices in this category closed without an award being published?
- 04Who buys this across borders, in languages I do not read?
Examples of what this collection is built to answer, not saved searches or results. What comes back depends on what has been read so far.
What it is not good for
known limits- It is not a bidding platform. You will find the notice; submitting a tender happens through the buyer's own portal.
- It covers what public buyers publish openly, so below-threshold and privately-run procurement is largely outside it.
Where it is used
Data reads this shelf.
The data workspace, on the roadmap, will read procurement notices as a dataset — filter, group and export rather than reading one notice at a time.
Describe what you supply
In your own words, not in the buyer's classification vocabulary.
Filter by deadline and buyer
Both are kept on every notice, which is what turns a feed into a shortlist.
Read it as a dataset
The data workspace, on the roadmap, will read procurement notices as records — filter, group and export rather than reading one notice at a time.
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.