Six sources, one bid manager, a 32-day deadline.
Tenders appear in TED and in the portals of individual countries and contracting authorities. Finding them means searching every portal with its own keywords and reading notices, most of which do not match your profile. By the time it is clear whether your own production can cover the required lot, the first week of the deadline period has already passed.
6sourcesTED and five national procurement portals publish independently of each other.
28notices a weekThat is how many come in under the CPV codes being monitored.
3matching projectsOnly three have lots that your own production can cover.
32days' deadlineThat is all the time there is for screening, pre-qualification and the request to participate.
At the annual review, bid management counts 50% more projects that made it into the bidding phase, each of them pre-qualified within the first week of the deadline period.
The 50% increase in bidding phases reached is this agent's headline figure. The 28 notices a week under the monitored CPV codes reflect a typical volume; they were not counted here.