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How we build Germany’s public works tender figures — method and sources
Every number on the Germany pages comes from TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, Publications Office of the European Union’s own published record, joined only to the official reference lists named below. This page says exactly how, and what the record does not contain.
Each figure is counted by its own rule, so they are not the steps of a funnel: a notice is placed on the map from the district where the work is carried out, even when it gives no description.
Where this data comes from
| Source | Publisher | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| EU public tenders (TED), the EU's official journal | TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, Publications Office of the European Union | CC BY 4.0 |
| EU regions list (Eurostat) | GISCO — European Commission | CC BY 4.0 |
We read what the authority publishes for bulk reuse. We do not scrape the public search interface, and we never sign in to anything.
What the register publishes
| Field | Status |
|---|---|
| Description of the works | Published |
| Contracting authority (buyer) | Published |
| Architect or designer | Not published Not from us — how you can get it yourself: A tender names the buyer, never the architect — the design is usually what is being bought. Where a notice is for architectural or engineering services the winner IS the designer, and the award notices name a winning firm on 95.2% of 28,842 records: 11,743 distinct German construction and design businesses, 79.9% of them with a contact. |
| Notice type and deadline for offers | Published |
| Map location | Not published How we handle it instead: No coordinates are published. Where the notice names its NUTS3 Kreis, it is placed at the centre of that district and labelled approximate everywhere it appears — the same treatment Poland and France get, and never presented as a site. A notice that names no Kreis counts on the country page only. |
From a published record to a lead
- Ingest. We take the authority’s published file or API and keep the raw response, dated and unchanged, so every figure can be traced back to the exact bytes we received.
- Normalise. References, publication dates, deadlines for offers and notice types are mapped to one shared vocabulary so Germany can be compared with the other countries on this site.
- Locate. TED publishes no coordinates. Where the notice names its NUTS 3 district (Kreis), it is placed at the centre of that district, using the European Commission’s GISCO boundary data, and labelled as approximate everywhere it appears; a notice that names none counts on the country page only.
- Match to a trade. Each notice carries CPV codes, the EU’s closed vocabulary of works, and each code is mapped to the trades it needs. A notice can need several trades. A code means the same in every language, so nothing is guessed from the wording.
- Time it. A notice carries its own stage: planned (the buyer has announced the works ahead of the call for offers), open for bids, closed, or awarded. Where it publishes a deadline for offers we show it exactly as given, and mark an open notice closed once that date has passed. We add no timing of our own.
- Find who to contact. Where the published record names a party, the lead carries it directly.
What we deliberately do not collect
A notice is published by a public body, which is a legal person; its staff are not. Mailboxes that belong to named officials are discarded at ingest and never stored — only the body’s own contact point is kept. Privacy.
Known limits, stated plainly
These are the things this country’s pipeline does not yet do fully. They are tracked in public and updated as they close.
| Feature | Status | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| Site location | Partial | The district where the work is to be performed, not the site — a notice names an area, never a plot |
| Exact address | Not available | Not published — the notice names the district of performance and the buying authority, and the linked notice carries the rest |
| Project scale | Partial | No floor area; the CPV code and the bid deadline stand in for scale |
| Architect / designer | Not available | The notice data we import names no designer; the notice itself, or the buying authority, can say whether one is appointed |
This table is the full list of known limits for this country.
How current is it
We check our sources every night. Each register publishes on its own schedule - some daily, some monthly - and every country page shows the date of the newest record we hold.
Source: TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, Publications Office of the European Union · CC BY 4.0 · rebuilt 2026-10-12.
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