How much public sector work is actually open for bidding right now, broken down by market and sector. The figures are recomputed from Tendly's database every day and each one carries its as-of date, so they can be quoted precisely.
Six numbers that describe the size of the opportunity as of 5 November 2026.
Only 26,758 of the 62,470 active tenders (42.8%) publish an estimated value at all, so no total can describe the whole market. Where a value is published, we convert non-EUR amounts at fixed reference rates, and amounts of a trillion or more in the notice's currency are treated as placeholders rather than estimates.
The combined figure is also extremely top-heavy: the ten largest tenders alone account for EUR 274.0 billion (33.4% of the disclosed total) and the largest hundred for 72.0%, because framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems publish a multi-year ceiling rather than committed spend. The median is the more faithful description of a typical tender, which is why we lead with the tender count rather than the total.
Each of these is a complete statement with its own date and qualifiers, so it stands up on its own if quoted.
Every market Tendly covers, ranked by the number of tenders open on 5 November 2026. NATO and the EU institutions are international organisations that publish their own tenders, listed under their user-assigned codes XN and XE. Coverage depth varies: some national portals publish every municipal contract, others only those above their statutory publication threshold, so these counts reflect what each market makes public as much as how much it buys.
| Market | Active tenders | Share | Disclose a value | Median value | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DEGermany
|
10,981 | 17.6% | 9.3% | EUR 457,473 | EUR 4,403,423,034 |
|
ESSpain
|
7,951 | 12.7% | 99.5% | EUR 99,600 | EUR 26,641,449,290 |
|
PLPoland
|
7,765 | 12.4% | 1.7% | EUR 91,189 | EUR 50,899,244 |
|
FRFrance
|
7,682 | 12.3% | 18.4% | EUR 800,000 | EUR 18,667,293,665 |
|
GRGreece
|
5,114 | 8.2% | 99.5% | EUR 11,996 | EUR 5,738,875,324 |
| 2,673 | 4.3% | 88.8% | EUR 1,684,800 | EUR 533,445,841,540 | |
| 2,312 | 3.7% | 24.5% | EUR 1,680,000 | EUR 12,129,219,256 | |
|
BEBelgium
|
2,262 | 3.6% | 2.3% | EUR 700,000 | EUR 197,934,649 |
|
SESweden
|
2,248 | 3.6% | 84.7% | EUR 792,000 | EUR 17,522,396,459 |
|
FIFinland
|
1,855 | 3.0% | 35.5% | EUR 2,000,000 | EUR 28,175,126,544 |
| 1,477 | 2.4% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | |
|
HRCroatia
|
1,427 | 2.3% | 100.0% | EUR 100,000 | EUR 810,221,348 |
| 1,127 | 1.8% | 52.3% | EUR 192,444 | EUR 16,581,380,072 | |
|
IEIreland
|
971 | 1.6% | 73.7% | EUR 700,000 | EUR 26,978,561,397 |
|
LVLatvia
|
947 | 1.5% | 46.5% | EUR 65,500 | EUR 256,026,350 |
|
NONorway
|
827 | 1.3% | 57.3% | EUR 1,282,500 | EUR 11,993,194,338 |
|
CZCzechia
|
698 | 1.1% | 43.0% | EUR 97,819 | EUR 527,902,361 |
|
SISlovenia
|
665 | 1.1% | 14.3% | EUR 200,000 | EUR 57,392,797 |
|
PTPortugal
|
598 | 1.0% | 95.5% | EUR 325,000 | EUR 723,761,470 |
|
DKDenmark
|
593 | 0.9% | 70.8% | EUR 3,350,000 | EUR 94,768,529,462 |
| 525 | 0.8% | 4.0% | EUR 2,490,000 | EUR 521,799,000 | |
|
EEEstonia
|
450 | 0.7% | 98.7% | EUR 200,000 | EUR 816,353,101 |
| 419 | 0.7% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | |
|
SKSlovakia
|
345 | 0.6% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| 295 | 0.5% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | |
|
XEEU institutions
|
142 | 0.2% | 77.5% | EUR 2,500,000 | EUR 18,716,542,295 |
|
XNNATO
|
118 | 0.2% | 17.8% | EUR 3,000,000 | EUR 127,573,172 |
|
—Other markets
|
3 | 0.0% | — | — | — |
Disclosed value sums only those tenders publishing an estimated value, converted to EUR at fixed reference rates. Markets showing "Not disclosed" publish tender notices without estimated values. Totals including framework and DPS ceilings can exceed a market's realistic annual procurement spend and should not be read as committed budget — compare medians instead. "Other markets" groups 1 market whose source feed is being repaired; their tenders are included in every total.
The twelve largest sectors by number of open tenders, classified by CPV division. Shares are calculated against the 61,003 active tenders that carry a CPV code (97.7% of the total).
| Sector | CPV division | Active tenders | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | 45 | 15,447 | 25.3% |
| Engineering & architecture | 71 | 4,394 | 7.2% |
| Medical equipment | 33 | 3,646 | 6.0% |
| Environmental services | 90 | 3,638 | 6.0% |
| Business services | 79 | 3,319 | 5.4% |
| Repair & maintenance | 50 | 2,865 | 4.7% |
| Transport equipment | 34 | 2,643 | 4.3% |
| IT services | 72 | 1,938 | 3.2% |
| Office & computing equipment | 30 | 1,736 | 2.8% |
| Furniture & appliances | 39 | 1,527 | 2.5% |
| Health services | 85 | 1,449 | 2.4% |
| Financial services | 66 | 1,411 | 2.3% |
Time remaining until the submission deadline, for every tender open on 5 November 2026. This is the single most underrated constraint in public procurement: most opportunities are already part-way through their window by the time a supplier finds them.
| Time remaining | Active tenders | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Closing within 7 days | 18,478 | 29.6% |
| Closing in 7-30 days | 35,487 | 56.8% |
| Closing in 30-90 days | 4,277 | 6.8% |
| Closing in more than 90 days | 4,228 | 6.8% |
50,943 of the tenders open on 5 November 2026 were published in the 30 days before it — roughly 1,698 still biddable notices a day, and 81.5% of everything open. Most of the market turns over within a month or two, which is the clearest available measure of how quickly opportunities expire.
| Market | Open tenders published | Share of new open tenders |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 10,044 | 19.7% |
| Poland | 6,831 | 13.4% |
| Spain | 6,606 | 13.0% |
| France | 6,599 | 13.0% |
| Greece | 4,897 | 9.6% |
This count is keyed on the publication date the buyer states on the notice. Estonia is absent from it because none of the open notices there carry one. The most recent publication date held on 5 November 2026 was 4 November 2026, so the final days of the window are still filling in. Read the figure as a floor, not a ceiling.
What the numbers above actually mean for a supplier deciding where to spend bidding effort. Every figure cited here comes from the same 5 November 2026 snapshot.
The three largest markets, Germany, Spain and Poland, together account for 26,697 notices, 42.7% of the 62,470 tenders open on 5 November 2026.
Volume and value point in different directions, though. The United Kingdom publishes 2,673 active notices — 4.3% of the total — yet its disclosed value of EUR 533.4 billion is 65.1% of every euro disclosed anywhere. That is mostly an artefact of how large frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems publish multi-year ceilings. Across the whole dataset the ten largest tenders alone are 33.4% of the disclosed total, and the largest hundred are 72.0%.
The practical read: if you want many mid-sized chances to bid, Germany, Spain and Poland are where the notices are. If you are equipped to win a place on a large framework, Denmark and the EU institutions are where the typical contract is largest. Concentration also stops at the market level — those 62,470 tenders come from 24,704 separate contracting authorities, of which 13,883 (56.2%) have exactly one tender open. There is no short list of accounts to cultivate; the buyer side is genuinely fragmented.
Construction work is the single largest category: 15,447 active tenders sit in CPV division 45, 25.3% of the 61,003 open tenders that carry a CPV code.
Add engineering and architecture services (division 71, 4,394 tenders) and the built environment accounts for 19,841 opportunities, 32.5% of everything classified. Next come medical equipment (3,646), environmental services (3,638), business services (3,319), repair & maintenance (2,865) and transport equipment (2,643).
Technology is smaller than its share of attention suggests: IT services and office and computing equipment together are 3,674 tenders, 6.0% of the classified market. The distribution has a short head and a thin tail: the twelve divisions listed above cover 72.1% of all classified tenders, with the remainder spread across dozens of small divisions. Unlike the value figures, this breakdown is close to complete — 97.7% of active tenders carry a CPV code, because classification is mandatory where publishing a price is not.
Most public tenders do not say what they are worth. Only 26,758 of the 62,470 active tenders (42.8%) publish an estimated contract value.
The gap is not spread evenly — it is largely a market-level policy difference. Croatia publishes a value on 100.0% of its notices, Greece on 99.5% and Spain on 99.5%. At the other end, Germany — the largest market by volume — publishes a value on 1,025 of 10,981 notices (9.3%). Switzerland, New Zealand, Slovakia and Luxembourg disclose none at all: 2,536 open tenders with no published value.
This makes cross-market value comparison close to meaningless, and it is the reason this page reports disclosure rates beside every value. For suppliers the consequence is concrete: in low-disclosure markets you cannot qualify an opportunity on published budget, so the only reliable signals are the scope of the specification and what the same buyer has awarded before. That asymmetry favours incumbents, who already know the number.
The typical open tender is well within reach of a small company. The median is EUR 200,000, and 19,988 of the 26,758 tenders that disclose a value (74.7%) are under EUR 1 million; 88.3% are under EUR 5 million.
The real barrier is time, not size. 18,478 tenders (29.6%) close within seven days and 53,965 (86.4%) within thirty; only 4,228 (6.8%) leave more than ninety days. A supplier who discovers a tender when it is already published has, more often than not, less than a month to assemble a compliant bid — which is why continuous monitoring beats periodic searching.
Where you look changes what "small" means. The median open tender is EUR 11,996 in Greece and EUR 65,500 in Latvia, against EUR 3,350,000 in Denmark and EUR 2,500,000 in the EU institutions (markets with at least 100 disclosed values). Suppliers entering public procurement for the first time will find far more contracts sized for them where medians are low, while high-median markets bundle work into larger lots. The fragmented buyer base helps here too: with 24,704 authorities buying and 56.2% of them running a single open tender, there is no incumbent holding the whole market.
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Tendly (2026). Public Procurement in Numbers: Tendly Procurement Data, 5 November 2026. https://tendly.eu/en/data
When quoting a single figure, keep its as-of date and its denominator with it — most of the numbers here describe a subset (tenders that disclose a value, tenders that carry a CPV code) rather than the whole market.
Source: Tendly platform data, aggregated from national procurement portals, NATO, the EU institutions and TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), as of 5 November 2026.
Active tender: a published notice whose stated submission deadline had not passed at 00:00 UTC on 5 November 2026. Tenders are counted once per published notice; where a buyer re-publishes or renews a framework agreement, each notice counts separately.
Contract value: the estimated value published by the buyer, converted to EUR at fixed reference rates. Values are self-reported and inconsistently published — only 42.8% of active tenders include one. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems publish a ceiling for the full term, which inflates totals relative to actual spend. Amounts of a trillion or more in the notice's currency are placeholders and are excluded.
Median value: the midpoint of disclosed values, computed per market over that market's disclosing tenders only. Where a market discloses on few notices, its median describes those notices rather than its market — read it alongside the disclosure rate in the same row.
Sector: the first two digits of the tender's primary CPV code, the classification used across public procurement.
Recently published: open tenders whose stated publication date falls in the 30 days ending 5 November 2026. Portals that publish no publication date are excluded from that count only; they are still counted everywhere else on this page.
Coverage: Tendly covers 28 markets — national procurement portals plus NATO and the EU institutions. Counts reflect what each source publishes, which varies by market and by procurement threshold. A lower count does not necessarily mean a smaller procurement market — it may mean less is published centrally, or that coverage of that market is more recent.
Updates: every figure is recomputed from the database each day against a single as-of date, so the page is never internally inconsistent and every number on it can be quoted with that date.
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