UK and European public tender calendar
Visualise the opening, deadline and annual peak windows of each public tender source we scrape. Helps you plan your year: when to apply, when to search, when are the Q1 (UK Councils new FY) and Q4 (pre-Xmas panic-buying) peaks.
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| Source | Country | Fiscal year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Peak months | View |
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| UK Find a Tender Service (FTS) insufficient data Official UK post-Brexit portal. Covers all above-threshold UK central government contracts. | GB |
Apr–Mar | 1 | 2 | 4 | ● | ● | 3 | ● | ● | ● | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 | ↗ |
| Public Contracts Scotland Scotland. Includes below-threshold contracts (more attractive for SMEs). FY April-March. | GB-SCT |
Apr–Mar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 9, 10 | ↗ |
| Sell2Wales (Wales) Wales. Welsh public sector. FY April-March. ~3500 notices/year. | GB-WLS |
Apr–Mar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ◐ | ● | 0 | 0 | 10 | ↗ |
| TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, EU) EU Official Journal. Covers 27 EU + EEA countries. Calendar year. | EU |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ● | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 8, 9, 10 | ↗ |
| PLACSP (Spain) Spanish Public Sector Contracting Platform. All Spanish public administrations. | ES |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ◐ | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 9, 10 | ↗ |
| TenderNed (Netherlands) Dutch portal. Calendar year. | NL |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 9, 10 | ↗ |
| BOAMP (France) Official Bulletin of Public Procurement Announcements. France. Calendar year. | FR |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 9, 10 | ↗ |
| Doffin (Norway) Norway. ~102,000 tenders accumulated in its public history. | NO |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ● | ● | 0 | 0 | 9, 10 | ↗ |
| IMO (International Maritime Organization) insufficient data International Maritime Organization (UK). Few tenders per year, but high value for maritime SMEs. | INT |
Calendar year | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | ↗ |
Calendar data is indicative, based on known patterns. Exact dates depend on each body and change yearly. For real dates, check each source's portal.
Methodology: Each cell shows the % of tenders published in that month over the source's total (24-month window). Peak ≥ 6%, high 3-6%, medium 1-3%, low < 1%. Months with < 5 tenders are marked as 'insufficient data' (striped pattern) to avoid mistaking noise for signal. If a source's cadence is uniform, all months appear in the same colour.