Why TenderRadar, when TED and TenderNed are free?
Fair question — the data is public and the portals are free. The difference: the portals publish documents; TenderRadar publishes answers. Every join the portals never make — notices↔awards↔buyers↔competitors — is our product.
| What you need | The free portals | TenderRadar (also free) |
|---|---|---|
| One search across TED + TenderNed | Two portals, two accounts, two searches | One corpus, one filter, EU + NL sub-threshold together |
| Search by meaning, in any language | Keyword-only, per language | A Dutch query finds German, French and Italian tenders |
| Who already wins at a buyer | Notices and awards are separate documents | Incumbents shown on every live tender |
| Buyer account pages | Not available | Award history, category mix, open-now per authority |
| Competitor tracking | Manual document trawling | Leaderboard + every win per firm, by KvK |
| Alerts | Daily email at best | Instant (≤10 min) Slack/Teams webhook + 07:00 digest + RSS |
| Export | Per-notice download | Any filter as CSV, deadline calendars as .ics |
| History | Rolling publication window | The archive accumulates — award memory compounds |
What the portals do better
TED and TenderNed are the official source of record and the only place to actually submit a bid. That's why every tender here links straight back to the official notice — use them together: find and qualify here, submit there.