European Commission, DG COMM - Communication

How to win their contracts

Measured from European Commission, DG COMM - Communication's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 16 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 70 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.9 tenders a month, measured over 41 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at €90k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation, transport services (excl. waste transport).