TED - Tenders Electronic Daily
European legislation requires that tenders for public contracts where the amounts exceed a certain threshold, which varies according to the type of contract, be published in the Official Journal S series, which can be consulted free of charge in the TED database.

SIMAP - Information system for public contracts (E-procurement)
SIMAP aims to promote the use of the new information technologies in the field of public procurement. It provides a general framework for regulations, legislation; international, European and national links; online forms for the contract notices to be published in the supplement to the Official Journal; common vocabulary; an online electronic notification service; a discussion forum; research in TED and other sites.

Publications Office
The Publications Office pages give more practical advice on how to publish and search for a tender.

CORDIS
The Community Information Service for Research and Development provides information on Community R&D programmes. CORDIS helps tenderers to participate in research programmes financed by the EU, to find partners and to share ideas.

EuropeAid
The EuropeAid Cooperation Office is responsible for implementing all Commission external aid operations financed by the Community budget and the European Development Fund, with the exception of the pre-accession instrument IPA, humanitarian action, macro-financial aid, the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the rapid reaction facility.

European Commission - Public contracts
(In order to access updated information of the different fields, please click at the title in order to go to the Eurpean Commission-Public contracts updated webpage).

Find below the different fields where public tendering takes place in the EU.

Agriculture
Audiovisual and Media
Budget
Competition
Communication
Consumers
Culture
Customs
Development
Economic and financial affairs
Education, training and youth
Employment and social affairs
Energy
Enlargement
Enterprise
Environment
External Aid
External Relations
External Trade
Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Fighting fraud
Food safety
Freedom, Security and Justice
Humanitarian Aid
Human Rights
Information society
Internal Market
Office for Infrastructure and Logistics in Brussels
Office for Infrastructure and Logistics ' Luxembourg
Office for the Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements
Public Health
Regional Policy
Research and Innovation
Statistics
Taxation
Transport
Translation Services
Agencies of the European Union
Representations of the European Commission in the Member States