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Connect market information thoughtfully.

Use news, sources, sectors and past awards as research inputs while understanding their scope.

Your practical outcome:A reasoned observation with a source and a concrete next research action.

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The view uses example data. Enlarge the image to inspect labels and controls.

Start with a business question

Open “Market overview”. Choose a question: which sectors, regions or sources appear in my tender collection? “Group by” reorganises the chart; “Show data table” reveals its underlying values.

Distinguish news from opportunities

An investment story or event report may suggest future demand. It does not confirm an open contract. Read the original and then search for an actual published notice.

Read coverage and time period

Check sources, collection date and time period. A chart of retained records is not a census of the German market. Incomplete years need careful interpretation.

Understand relevance

Read which documented metadata triggered a news assessment. Sector words alone do not establish a personal business opportunity. Company-specific interpretation also needs services and capacity information.

Choose a verifiable action

Retain the research context and choose a specific check: read documents, monitor a buyer or address a capability gap. Record assumptions and revisit them.

A WORKED EXAMPLE

Make the method concrete.

A municipal charging-infrastructure story leads to research into the region, technical services and purchasing organisations. Only a checked notice creates a concrete participation pursuit.

Avoid this common pitfall.

Inferring market size or growth directly from retained story counts. Coverage, duplicates and time windows affect those figures.

Common questions, clearly answered.

Is relevance a win probability?

No. An assessment prioritises research using documented inputs. It establishes neither eligibility nor a chance of award.

Can I read public material without an account?

Public guides, knowledge pages and magazine articles are freely readable. Personal pursuits and protected tools need appropriate access.

THE ACTUAL DATA COLLECTION

Make stakeholders visible.
With a method you can inspect.

Here we count published names in the measured procurement archive. Buying bodies, businesses and other recipients named by the sources become visible as market participants. The figures describe the data collection, not membership of Vergabezone.

328,348stakeholder names in the measured archive

Published buyer and recipient names grouped using consistent name rules. This is not a count of registered users or customers.

Archive snapshot measured: · publication years 2006–2026

Distinct buyer name keys
97,863
Distinct recipient name keys
232,584
Retained source notices
1,686,320
Published name mentions
2,334,824

The total is the union of both name groups. Buyer and recipient figures are not simply added together. 2,099 name keys occur in both roles.

What exactly is counted?

  1. Published names. The measurement uses retained buyer fields and recipient fields in historical TED CSV result data. Missing values and recognised placeholders are excluded. A recipient field can also describe an intended award; it is not a complete bidder list.
  2. Consistent text rules. Unicode NFKC, Unicode case folding and consistent whitespace form the name keys. Punctuation and legal-form suffixes are retained. Similar names are not automatically merged into a company.
  3. A counted union. Identical name keys count once in the total across roles and sources. The breakdown separately shows their occurrence as buyers or recipients.
  4. A name key is not company verification. A group name can describe several bodies; different spellings can remain separate. These figures do not establish a count of currently active businesses, market share, users or a largest-platform ranking.
  5. Notices are not unique contracts. Several source notices, corrections or results can relate to the same procurement. Measured years and sources describe the retained partial collection; they do not prove complete coverage.

Source identifiers: ted, doe, bonn Measurement generated on .

  • Counts are normalised published names in the evaluated archive snapshot, not verified legal entities, memberships or complete bidder lists.
  • Buyers and recipients may share a name key. The overall count includes it once; role counts must not be added.
  • Recipient names come only from retained TED CSV result fields, which can also describe intended awards. A joint entry can contain more than one name.
  • Source notices are not unique contracts or currently open tenders. Missing names and changing source coverage limit interpretation.