TED is free, official, and excellent for EU tenders. If your pipeline stays inside the EU, keep using it. GlobalGov is the alternative for the moment your opportunities cross the EU border.
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU's official tender feed, it is free, and for EU-only bidding it is the right tool. GlobalGov covers 200+ countries and territories, adds award history, vendor linkage, matching, and 40+-language translation, and puts the EU and everywhere else in one search.
TED is the supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union and the authoritative home for EU public tenders above the EU thresholds. It is free, it offers machine translation of notices across EU languages, and you can set up saved searches that email you when matching notices publish. For a team bidding only on EU tenders, that is a genuinely good, no-cost setup, and we will tell you so.
The limits show up the moment your pipeline is broader than the EU, or deeper than a notice feed. That is the gap GlobalGov fills.
This is not free versus paid for its own sake. It is a free EU notice feed versus a paid global intelligence layer. Here is exactly what you add.
| GlobalGov | TED email alerts | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | From $499/mo, 14-day free trial | Free |
| Geographic coverage | 200+ countries and territories | EU and EEA, plus some international notices above thresholds |
| National and sub-national portals | National portals worldwide | EU-level notices above the thresholds |
| Award history and vendors | Linked awards and 2.9M+ vendor profiles | Notice-level; limited history |
| Matching and saved intelligence | Saved profiles, alerts, matching across markets | Email alerts from saved TED searches |
| Translation | 40+ languages normalized to English | Machine translation of EU notices |
| Workflow | One search, pipeline, and alerts | Notice feed you assemble yourself |
TED details reflect the public Tenders Electronic Daily service operated by the EU Publications Office. GlobalGov figures are our canonical platform statistics, updated daily. Last reviewed July 2026.
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