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Plain-language definitions of every Tender Notice Types & eForms term that shows up in government tender work.
BT-01 is the eForms business term field recording the legal basis governing a procurement procedure, specifying which EU Directive or national transposition act applies, which in turn determines the applicable thresholds, procedure types, and mandatory disclosure requirements for the entire notice.
Read definitionA Buyer Profile Notice is published to direct suppliers to a contracting authority's dedicated buyer profile page on an e-procurement portal, centralising access to the authority's planned and current procurement activity, procurement policies, and contact information in one discoverable location.
Read definitionA Change Notice is the eForms-era category covering all amendments to previously published procurement notices, including corrections to contract notices, extensions of deadlines, and substantive scope changes, ensuring that updated information reaches all potential bidders simultaneously.
Read definitionA Competition Notice is the eForms-era category of notice that formally opens a public procurement competition, covering the functions previously served by Contract Notices and equivalent call-for-competition publications across all EU procurement directive types.
Read definitionA Concession Award Notice is the mandatory post-award publication on TED recording the outcome of a concession competition, naming the winning concessionaire, the contract duration, and the estimated total concession value for works or services concessions governed by Directive 2014/23/EU.
Read definitionA Concession Notice is the publication on TED announcing an above-threshold competition for a works or services concession, where the concessionaire takes on operating risk by deriving revenue primarily from users or the market rather than direct payment from the contracting authority.
Read definitionA Contract Award Notice is the mandatory post-award publication confirming which supplier won a public contract, the contract value, the number of tenders received, and the award criteria scores, providing transparency and market intelligence to unsuccessful bidders and future competitors.
Read definitionA Contract Modification Notice is the eForms-structured publication recording a permitted change to an already-signed public contract during its performance, corresponding to the legacy Modification Notice and required when the modification meets the value and significance thresholds defined in Directive 2014/24/EU Article 72.
Read definitionA Contract Notice is the formal public announcement that a contracting authority has launched a procurement competition, published on TED for above-threshold contracts and containing the essential information suppliers need to decide whether to participate.
Read definitionA Corrigendum Notice is the formal correction published on TED when a contracting authority needs to amend information in a previously published procurement notice, including changes to deadlines, scope, specifications, or award criteria, with material changes requiring a reset of the tender period.
Read definitionA Design Contest Notice announces a competitive design competition run by a contracting authority, typically for architecture, engineering, data processing, or planning projects, where an independent jury evaluates submissions and awards prizes or selects a winner who may be invited to provide subsequent services.
Read definitionA Design Contest Result Notice is the mandatory post-competition publication on TED recording the outcome of a design contest, identifying the prize winners, the jury's decisions, and whether the winning participant has been or will be invited to provide follow-on services.
Read definitionA Direct Award Prenotification is the eForms notice category for publications signalling that a contracting authority intends to award a contract without a prior competitive procedure, encompassing the Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) function and providing a challenge window before contract signature.
Read definitioneForms are the European Union's standardised digital notice format for public procurement, replacing legacy standard forms and requiring contracting authorities across EU member states to publish structured machine-readable notices on TED from October 2023 onwards.
Read definitioneForms Business Terms, identified by BT field codes, are the individually defined data fields within every eForms notice, each with a unique identifier, data type, controlled vocabulary, and mandatory or optional status that together enforce structured, machine-readable procurement disclosure across Europe.
Read definitionThe eForms SDK is the open-source technical specification published by the Publications Office of the EU that defines field structures, validation rules, controlled vocabularies, and schematron checks for all eForms notice types used in European public procurement.
Read definitionA Modification Notice is the mandatory publication on TED when a contracting authority makes a substantial change to a contract already being executed, recording the nature, justification, and value impact of the modification to ensure transparency throughout contract performance.
Read definitionA Notice Publication ID is the unique identifier assigned by TED to each procurement notice upon publication, enabling precise referencing, cross-notice linking, and lifecycle tracing of individual notices within and across European public procurement procedures.
Read definitionNotice subtypes are the granular classifications within the eForms notice taxonomy that distinguish between specific types of procurement notices, with 40 defined subtypes spanning planning, competition, direct award prenotification, and result phases across all EU procurement directives.
Read definitionA Planning Notice is the eForms-era category of notice covering advance publication of planned procurement activity, encompassing the functions previously served by Prior Information Notices and Buyer Profile Notices, and enabling contracting authorities to signal upcoming contracts before a competition is formally launched.
Read definitionA Prior Information Notice is a voluntary or mandatory advance notice published by a contracting authority to signal upcoming procurement activity, allowing suppliers to prepare for future tenders and, in some procedures, enabling a reduced minimum time limit for receipt of tenders.
Read definitionA Procurement Procedure Identifier is the unique reference that links all eForms notices relating to the same procurement procedure across its full lifecycle, from planning notice through competition notice to result notice, enabling end-to-end tracing of a single procurement on TED.
Read definitionA Qualification System Notice is published by utilities contracting entities under Directive 2014/25/EU to establish or maintain a standing list of pre-qualified suppliers, allowing the entity to call off contracts from pre-approved suppliers without publishing individual contract notices for each opportunity.
Read definitionA Result Notice is the eForms-era category of notice recording the outcome of a procurement procedure or design contest, covering the functions previously served by Contract Award Notices and Design Contest Result Notices, and completing the public record of a procurement lifecycle on TED.
Read definitionA Social and Other Specific Services Notice is used for above-threshold contracts in health, social care, education, and related sectors listed in Annex XIV of Directive 2014/24/EU, which are subject to a lighter procurement regime with a higher threshold of EUR 750,000 and fewer mandatory procedural requirements.
Read definitionStandard Form 1 was the legacy EU procurement notice format used for Prior Information Notices before the mandatory transition to eForms in October 2023, providing advance notice of planned procurements and in some cases enabling reduced tender periods in subsequent procedures.
Read definitionStandard Form 2 was the legacy EU procurement notice format used for Contract Notices before the mandatory eForms transition in October 2023, formally launching open and restricted public procurement competitions for above-threshold contracts published on TED.
Read definitionStandard Form 3 was the legacy EU procurement notice format used for Contract Award Notices before the mandatory eForms transition in October 2023, recording the outcome of public procurement competitions including the winning supplier, total contract value, and number of tenders received.
Read definitionA Subcontracting Notice is published by a main contractor who has won a public contract and wishes to open competition for subcontract work, enabling smaller suppliers to access public contract value even when they did not participate directly in the original procurement.
Read definitionA Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice is a publication that a contracting authority issues before signing a directly awarded contract, giving potential challengers a 10-day window to apply for interim measures and providing the authority with legal protection against the contract being declared ineffective.
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