Research

Research on public tenders

Studies built from the tender and contract award notices in Tenderen's index. Each study states its source, sample, period, method and limits, and the data behind it can be downloaded.

• How many bids does a public tender get? Competition benchmark 2024–2025Single-bid shares and median bids per contract award in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Germany, the Netherlands and France, from 151,380 TED award notices published 2024–2025. Method and data included.Read the study
• How fast does Tenderen index new tenders? Measured, Q3 2026Measured from Tenderen's own data: 99.9% of 1,109 Doffin notices and 100.0% of 83,118 TED notices published July–September 2026 were in the index on their publication day. BOAMP notices arrive the day after.Read the study