Filtering tenders by budget
Tender Navigator can restrict a search or a filter to tenders whose published budget falls within a minimum and maximum in a chosen currency. Most procurement notices publish no budget, so a separate switch decides whether those tenders are kept or excluded.
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Where the budget filter appears
- In the Pre-search tool: the fields Budget from, Budget to, Currency and a Published budgets switch.
- In the filter editor: an opt-in Tender budget block with Minimum, Maximum, Currency and a switch for tenders without a stated budget. The block shows a plain-language summary of the rule, for example "EUR 100,000 - EUR 500,000", "EUR 100,000 and above" or "Up to EUR 500,000".
The rules
- Both bounds empty means no budget filtering. The search or filter ignores budget entirely.
- One bound is enough. "EUR 100,000 and above" and "Up to EUR 500,000" are both valid rules. A minimum of 0 is a real bound: it means "any stated budget, any amount".
- The minimum must not exceed the maximum. The form refuses to save or search otherwise.
- Amounts are compared across currencies by Tender Navigator. You state the bounds and a currency (EUR by default); tenders published in other currencies are converted for comparison. Tender Navigator does not show converted figures; a tender's own budget is always displayed in its own currency.
Tenders that publish no budget
Most procurement notices state no budget. The Published budgets switch (in the filter editor, "Tenders without a stated budget") decides what happens to them:
- Included (the default): tenders with no published budget still match. A bare minimum therefore only drops tenders whose stated budget is below it.
- Excluded: only tenders that publish a budget can match. This narrows results sharply. Measured on the live database, a query of about 10,000 notices kept about 300 once the switch was on.
In the filter editor the exclusion switch requires at least one bound. Excluding budget-less tenders while stating no range is refused with an inline error and a one-click "Include tenders without a budget" fix, because that combination drops most tenders with no range shown anywhere to explain why.
Where the budget is shown
Whenever a tender states a budget, it appears as Estimated budget in the Pre-search side panel, on the tender notice page, in the Tender Info panel on the Results page, on a shared tender page, and in list exports (as a raw number and a currency code in separate columns for CSV and Excel). When a tender states none, the row is simply absent. Tender Navigator never shows a dash or a zero in its place.
On a result, the archived filter rule is shown
The Tender Info panel for an evaluated tender shows both the tender's own budget and the budget rule of the filter as it was when the tender was evaluated. Editing the filter later does not rewrite why a past result matched.
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