Public procurement regulations force all public sector organisations to publish contract notices that are over set values, or ‘thresholds’. For example all UK public contracts that are above a threshold must be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) via a contract notice.
The UK’s home countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), all have their own procurement portals which publish tenders. Sometimes the threshold is lower than for OJEU. For example English contracts worth over £10,000 are published, whereas OJEU contracts published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) are worth much more.
Some public sector bodies will also publish tenders on their own websites.
