Tenders
This section comprises all the current open invitations to tender as well as an archive of past tenders.
It contains links to all the invitations to tender currently being run by the EPO. As part of a pilot project, selected tender procedures are now being run electronically.
Electronic tender procedures
To bid for an electronic tender, you need to register and log in to our e-tendering tool.
Please note: the e-tendering system is not available between 02.00 and 03.00 hrs CET.
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Paper-based tender procedures
Current international open tenders
- Published notice: International open invitation to tender no. 2011/0554/Tp (NL - The Hague)
The provision of OCR Conversion and data extraction for documents with an input format (such as scanned image or PDF) into corresponding output documents (such as XML and PDF image with hidden text)
- Published notice: International open invitation to tender no. 1536 (D - Munich)
The provision of market research services through the conduct of telephone surveys in four languages and the analysis of the results (User Satisfaction Surveys (USS) for patent search and examination services - 2012)