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22/01/2010
EFCA welcomes promise of improved public procurement notices
The European Commission will help to ensure that the quality of summary English translations of invitations to tender in TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is appropriate to potential tenderers
Individual contracting authorities must publish public tenders above specific contract values throughout the EU. These are published in the language of the awarding authority, with a summary in English.
The TED website is the single official source of public contracts in Europe.
The TED portal aims to ensuretransparency of business opportunities and eventually at creating a free and competitive Europe-wide market. However, the English summary usually does not contain essential information such as the contracting authority, the project title, and scope, the project budget and required qualifications of consultants.
EFCA has written to the European Commission to call for an improved summary of the contract in English that will include the above information which is necessary for the potential candidates’ assessment of interest in the project.
The European Commission undertook to draw the attention of the EU Publications Office, the service managing TED, to the need for stepping up efforts to ensure adequate English language versions of tender information.