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Tender sources and data

Which procurement sources and countries Tender Navigator covers, how often data and evaluations refresh, and why some fields are missing.

  1. Article 1Which tender sources Tender Navigator coversThe procurement platforms Tender Navigator ingests tenders from: TED, Find a Tender, SAM.gov, GOV.UK and 100+ others across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and international bodies, and how a tender's source is shown.Read article
  2. Article 2Countries and regions coveredHow Tender Navigator represents countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes), how a tender's buyer country is used in searches and filters, and where to see live tender volume by country.Read article
  3. Article 3How often tender data and evaluations are updatedWhat Tender Navigator states about update frequency: filters are evaluated daily, Market Insights figures are updated daily, searches read the live database, digest emails follow your schedule, and per-source refresh times are not published.Read article
  4. Article 4Why some tender fields are missingWhy a tender in Tender Navigator may show no budget, no codes in one system, no deadline, a short description or no AI summary: the fields come from the source notice, and Tender Navigator omits what the source did not publish.Read article
  5. Article 5Tender data and the original sourceThe source-of-truth rule in Tender Navigator: a notice on a procurement portal is the record, Tender Navigator's copy is a working view, and where to find the original for a search result or an evaluated tender.Read article