# No tenders found

Source: Tender Navigator Knowledge Base, https://tendernavigator.com/knowledge-base/no-tenders-found (canonical HTML). Category: Troubleshooting. Published 2026-09-08, last updated 2026-09-08.

> A Tender Navigator search that returns nothing usually has criteria that are too narrow, most often a budget rule that excludes tenders without a published budget. A filter that produces nothing is usually paused, has not completed its first daily run yet, or is being viewed outside the Results page's default seven-day window.

## A search returns "No results in this search"

Work through these in order; each one widens the search.

1. **Switch off budget exclusion.** If "Published budgets" is set to exclude tenders without a stated budget, most notices are dropped, because most publish none. Include them, or remove the budget range entirely.
2. **Remove the countries.** Empty means any country. A country you did not expect can be where the buyer sits.
3. **Add synonyms as keywords.** Keywords are ORed: adding "cloud hosting" next to "cloud migration" widens the search. Use the words procurement notices use, not your product names.
4. **Check the code.** A classification code narrows to notices that carry it. Try the category one level up (for CPV, the family ending in more zeros), or add codes from another system.
5. **Try one criterion at a time.** Keywords only, then a code only, to see which one is empty on its own.

See [Keywords, countries and codes](/knowledge-base/search-criteria) and [Filtering tenders by budget](/knowledge-base/budget-filter).

## A filter produces no results

- **Is it active?** A paused filter does not search. The Filters page groups paused filters under Paused, and the Results page says "Your filters are paused" when all of them are.
- **Has a daily run completed?** Filtering runs daily; a filter activated today produces its first results after the next run. The Results page says "Your first evaluations are on the way" meanwhile.
- **Are you looking at the right window?** The Results page opens on the last seven days. Use Quick range (up to Last 3 months) or the Evaluated from and to dates.
- **Is the filter reading anything?** Open the filter: **Evaluations performed** shows how many tenders it read this month. Zero after a few days means the criteria match nothing; test the same keywords, countries and codes in the Pre-search tool and widen them there first.
- **Are tenders stuck?** **Stuck tenders** above zero means the filter picked up tenders but could not evaluate them because the plan's evaluations for the cycle, or the filter's own limit, were used up. See [Filter usage and limits](/knowledge-base/filter-usage-and-limits).
- **Everything Unmatched?** That is not "no results": the tenders were read and judged not a fit. Switch **Match** to All on the Results page to see them, and sharpen the prompt. See [Too many irrelevant tenders](/knowledge-base/too-many-irrelevant-tenders).

## Still nothing

Write to the team from the [Support](/support) page with the filter's name and the keywords, countries and codes it uses.