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Public notices from TED, read as published.

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the European Union's public procurement portal. You name a notice by its publication number or its TED address. Brisora fetches that one notice from TED and nothing else.

  • The notice is retained exactly as received, with its address, capture time and SHA-256 hash
  • Buyer, procedure, lots, classification codes, quantities, estimated value, delivery location and tender deadline are extracted
  • Every extracted fact records the character offsets of the passage it came from
  • A reference that does not match the retained notice exactly invalidates the whole reading

Missing, ambiguous and unknown

A fact has a state, not just a value.

Notices are often incomplete or inconsistent. Brisora records how each fact stands instead of resolving it quietly.

Extracted

The notice states the fact, and the passage is recorded.

Absent

The notice does not state it. The section where it would appear is cited.

Ambiguous or conflicting

The notice gives more than one value. Every candidate is kept with its own passage.

Unknown

Something is there but cannot be read reliably, such as an unsupported unit or currency.

Missing material fact

A fact the policy requires is not established. The result is RESEARCH_MORE and the fact is named.

Disqualifying fact

An established fact rules the notice out. The result is REJECT and the fact is named.

Deadline handling

Dates are treated as evidence, not as formatting.

  • A tender deadline that has already passed at evaluation time is a disqualifying fact
  • Lots that state different deadlines make the notice-level deadline ambiguous, not the earliest or latest one
  • A deadline without a time zone, or an impossible calendar date, is unknown
  • A planned contract end date is not treated as a delivery deadline
  • The publication date is kept at the precision the notice gives; no time of day is invented

Outcomes

PASS, RESEARCH_MORE or REJECT.

PASS

Worth sourcing research

Every fact the policy requires is established and evidenced, and nothing disqualifies the notice.

RESEARCH_MORE

Something material is missing

At least one required fact is absent, ambiguous, conflicting or unknown. Each one is listed.

REJECT

An established fact rules it out

For example, the tender deadline has passed. The disqualifying fact and its evidence are returned.

What PASS means

PASS carries the meaning SOURCING_RESEARCH_ONLY. It says the notice may enter supplier sourcing research.

PASS is not a decision to submit a bid. PASS is not commercial approval. PASS does not start any tender participation. Those are separate decisions with their own evidence, and Brisora does not make them from a notice.

Alongside the outcome, Brisora returns an evidence-completeness score from 0 to 100. It measures how much of the notice is evidenced. It is not a measure of how attractive the tender is.

Current coverage

What is supported, precisely.

Boundary

Supported: contract notices published on TED in the eForms format, SDK version 1.13, with a single buyer and up to 100 lots. Estimated values are read in EUR, GBP and USD.

Anything else — other eForms versions, other notice types, joint buyers — is refused with a clear reason rather than partly read. Tender documents attached to a notice are not opened.

The demo qualifies notices under one published demonstration policy. It checks evidence completeness only and holds no customer-specific preference.

The references and hashes in a result are described under how Brisora preserves decision provenance. Why unknown facts are never assumed is one of the rules Brisora enforces. Qualification is exposed as a tool by Brisora MCP.