Guides / International
The markets abroad we watch for you
Governments outside the United States publish their tenders too, and the WTO Government Procurement Agreement gives a U.S. company the right to bid on most of them. GovSmith reads seven of those markets, in their own code systems and currencies, and shows a client only the notices that fit. You never register on a foreign portal to find out what is there; we already know.
European Union
European Union: Tenders Electronic Daily
- The buyer
- Every public buyer in the twenty-seven member states above the EU thresholds: ministries, regions, cities, hospitals, universities, utilities and the EU institutions themselves.
- Currency
- Euro (EUR), and the national currencies of the non-euro members
- What it publishes
- Contract notices for supplies, services and works, with CPV codes, lots and NUTS regions, published under the EU procurement directives; U.S. suppliers bid as of right on the procurements the WTO Government Procurement Agreement covers.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads TED's official open data (the eForms notices) every night across every notice family and normalizes the CPV codes beside NAICS, so a client's profile matches European buys the same way it matches federal ones.
United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder
- The buyer
- UK central government, the NHS, local authorities, universities and utilities: Find a Tender for the above-threshold procurements under the Procurement Act, Contracts Finder for the below-threshold and local contracts.
- Currency
- Pound sterling (GBP)
- What it publishes
- Tender notices, pipeline notices and contract awards published in the Open Contracting Data Standard, the most machine-readable public market in the world.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads both services' OCDS releases nightly under the Open Government Licence, so a client sees the UK's above-threshold buys and the smaller local ones in one place, each with its buyer and its deadline.
Canada
Canada: CanadaBuys
- The buyer
- The Government of Canada through Public Services and Procurement Canada, the departments and agencies that buy through it, and the NATO Support and Procurement Agency notices mirrored there for Canadian firms.
- Currency
- Canadian dollar (CAD)
- What it publishes
- Tenders, standing offers and supply arrangements, with the awards that follow, in the open data files the Government of Canada publishes.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads the new-notices file every two hours and the open, closed and award files nightly under the Open Government Licence, so a Canadian opening is in a client's Search within hours of posting and closes the moment Canada says it has.
Australia
Australia: AusTender
- The buyer
- The Australian Government's departments and agencies, Defence among them, through their approaches to market and the panel arrangements they buy from.
- Currency
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- What it publishes
- Approaches to market with UNSPSC categories, panel arrangements and the contract notices that record each award.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads AusTender's published approaches to market every night and maps their UNSPSC categories to the client's profile; the awards it reads through the official OCDS API.
NATO
NATO: the Support and Procurement Agency and the NATO bodies
- The buyer
- The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), the NATO Communications and Information Agency, NATO Headquarters, Allied Command Transformation and Allied Command Operations, buying for the Alliance and for the nations that pool their support through it.
- Currency
- Euro (EUR) and U.S. dollar (USD), by contract
- What it publishes
- Requests for proposal, invitations for bid, notices of intent, industry days and future business opportunities, from logistics and maintenance to communications systems; many NCIA notices reach firms through their national delegations.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads NATO's own procurement opportunities export every night, keeps the NSPA notices and the other bodies' notices as two sources, and the vCM handles the national contact point routing a U.S. firm needs for the NCIA work.
- Read daily, link-out
United Nations
United Nations: the UN Global Marketplace
- The buyer
- The UN Secretariat, UNICEF, UNDP, WFP, UNHCR, WHO and the other UN organizations, buying for operations in nearly every country.
- Currency
- U.S. dollar (USD) for most tenders
- What it publishes
- Procurement notices with beneficiary countries and UNSPSC codes, from vehicles, food and medical supplies to consulting, IT and construction.
- How GovSmith reads it
- UNGM's terms restrict the reuse of its notices, so GovSmith reads them daily and links a client out to the notice itself rather than republishing it; a vCM registers the client on UNGM under the UNSPSC codes that fit.
- Coming soon
Global development finance
World Bank: procurement notices
- The buyer
- The governments that borrow from the World Bank, buying the goods, works and consulting services their financed projects need, under the Bank's procurement rules.
- Currency
- U.S. dollar (USD) and the borrower's currency, by contract
- What it publishes
- General procurement notices, invitations for bids and for prequalification and requests for expressions of interest, with the borrower country and the project on each.
- How GovSmith reads it
- GovSmith reads the open notices through the Bank's official API (CC BY 4.0, no key) every night, newest first, and the adapter is in its final checks before it goes live for clients.
- Scale
- 423,546 notices published since 2005, of which 111,201 are the open kinds GovSmith reads (expressions of interest, invitations for bids and for prequalification, general procurement notices).
- Source: The World Bank procurement notices API, counted by GovSmith on 2026-10-20 when the adapter was built..
The dollar scale of each market is the one figure these pages do not carry: the buyers publish notice counts, not a yearly total in one currency, and GovSmith states only what it has read. What it has read is every open notice in each market above, nightly.
What GovSmith does with this
A client in Ohio can sell to Ottawa
Most of our clients have never thought past the county line, and most never need to. But a product the UN buys by the container, a service a NATO agency needs from a U.S. firm, or a tender in Canada a company could deliver from Detroit is money on the table. GovSmith's Search puts it beside the federal openings, in the client's own terms, and the vCM says when it is worth the trip.