Contract notice

The contract notice is the formally binding way public authorities publish their procurements. It contains the subject matter, place of performance, deadlines, procedure type and contact channel — and it starts the clocks bidders have to keep.

There are two basic types: the contract notice before the award and the contract award notice after the decision. Above the EU thresholds both appear on TED; below them the national platforms apply.

In practice the notice is only the summary — the full procurement documents live on the contracting platform or the authority's website. BidPilot24 aggregates the notices of many portals and scores them centrally.