Where the award evidence lives outside TED: Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia, Türkiye (and the UK)

Cresques reads contract award notices on TED, the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU, which covers the EU, the EEA and beyond, to show who already sells a product category in a country. Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia, Türkiye and the United Kingdom publish their awards elsewhere. Cresques does not read those systems and does not offer these five countries as markets today. Here is where each record lives and how to read it yourself, from our country pages.

Putting it simply: in all five countries a manufacturer can search who won public contracts: on simap.ch (Swiss notices are also visible on TED), Prozorro, the Serbian Public Procurement Portal, the Turkish Public Procurement Bulletin on EKAP and Find a Tender. Each record has a catch, and each country its own rule for a first e-mail.

Switzerland: simap.ch, with notices visible on TED

Federal buyers (BöB) and cantonal and communal buyers (IVöB 2019) publish invitations to tender and awards from open and selective procedures on simap.ch, run jointly by the Confederation and the cantons; access is free (Art. 48). Within the scope of international treaties, an award is generally published within 30 days and names the procedure, the buyer, the winning tenderer and the total price. Filter publications by type "award" and by CPV code; simap.ch also documents a public API.

The catch: a search of TED by buyer country returns 5,281 award notices from Swiss buyers published in 2025; a recent example is notice 599732-2026 from armasuisse (September 2026). Even so, Cresques offers only EU and EEA countries and does not read simap.ch.

First e-mail: conditional. Art. 3(1)(o) UWG bans mass e-mail advertising without prior consent, with no exception for businesses; a single, individually written enquiry falls outside its wording, but OFCOM sets no safe number. See Switzerland.

Ukraine: Prozorro, open data under martial-law rules

Procedures under Law No. 922-VIII run through Prozorro. The buyer publishes the notice of intention to conclude a contract within one day of choosing the winner, and the contract with its annexes within three working days of signing it (Art. 10). bi.prozorro.org and the public API expose procurements run through Prozorro, awards and suppliers included, apart from some processes temporarily withheld for national-security reasons. Ukraine's ДК 021:2015 classifier is CPV 2008, so filter by the codes you already use and by completed procurements.

The catch: buying runs under the martial-law Peculiarities of Resolution No. 1178 of 12 October 2022, amended often, most recently by Resolution No. 1181 from 29 September 2026. Buyers' documents are in Ukrainian, and the Law's English-notice rule does not apply to open tenders under the martial-law rules (point 25). A new Law No. 4888-IX replaces Law No. 922-VIII on 24 March 2027. A localisation rule shapes who wins in heavy equipment: listed goods such as transformers, buses and pumps worth UAH 1 million or more in a purchase may be bought only if they are on a list with a confirmed degree of local production (30% in 2026), unless they originate in a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (the EU counts as one) and a document proves it. TED carries only a few dozen award notices a year involving Ukrainian buyers; Cresques does not read Prozorro.

First e-mail: conditional. Art. 10 of the E-Commerce Law allows a commercial e-mail without consent only with an opt-out; Art. 120 of the Electronic Communications Law bans mass sending without consent, companies included. See Ukraine.

Serbia: one national portal, almost nothing on TED

Every notice goes through the Public Procurement Portal (Portal javnih nabavki), free to search, view and download. The buyer publishes the award decision within three days of adopting it (Art. 146) and sends the award notice (obaveštenje o dodeli ugovora) for publication within 30 days of concluding the contract (Art. 109). The notice carries CPV codes from the Public Procurement Office's vocabulary, which follows the EU's CPV, the winner's name and address, and the contract value or the highest and lowest tenders. Utility notices also record whether the goods originate in Serbia, the EU or another country.

The catch: procedures under the Serbian law do not reach TED (the few dozen Serbian award notices there each year are mostly joint or EU-funded contracts); the provision that would publish notices above the EU thresholds in the Official Journal applies only from the day Serbia joins the EU. Procedures run in Serbian. Cresques does not read the portal.

First e-mail: prior consent. Art. 148 of the Law on Electronic Communications (2023) allows direct-advertising e-mail only with the recipient's prior consent, companies included; open with a letter, a fair or an introduction. See Serbia.

Türkiye: the Public Procurement Bulletin on EKAP

Under Law No. 4734, public bodies report procurement results to the Public Procurement Authority (KİK) within 15 days at the latest, and KİK publishes them in the Public Procurement Bulletin (Kamu İhale Bülteni), which its website links to on EKAP (Art. 47). Search EKAP (İhale Arama) and the Bulletin for result notices (ihale sonuç ilanı) and note who wins. We have not verified a CPV filter there, so search with your product terms in Turkish, the language of tender documents.

The catch: supply tenders may give bidders offering domestic goods a price advantage of up to 15%, mandatory for listed medium- and high-technology goods, and tenders below the thresholds may be restricted to domestic bidders (Art. 63). A July 2026 amendment, Additional Article 13, lets the President extend these advantages, on the basis of reciprocity, to EU bidders and goods of EU origin; as of October 2026 we could not confirm that any such decision has been issued. Results are not published on TED, and Cresques does not read EKAP or the Bulletin.

First e-mail: conditional. Art. 6(2) of Law No. 6563 allows commercial e-mail to merchants without prior consent, but the sender must first register with İYS, record the address there and check it has not refused; as of October 2026 we could not confirm how a sender registered abroad complies. See Türkiye.

United Kingdom: Find a Tender since 2021

Since 1 January 2021, UK above-threshold notices, awards included, have been published on Find a Tender, the GOV.UK service that replaced TED for the UK. Since 24 February 2025, under the Procurement Act 2023, notices about new procurements, above and below threshold, are published there, except below-threshold notices in Scotland and below-threshold contracts of Northern Ireland's own authorities; Scotland's devolved bodies are outside the Act and publish their above-threshold notices there under the Scottish regulations of 2015. Each award names the supplier and is categorised. Search awarded contracts under "Contracts" (procurements published from February 2025) or Notice Search (earlier rules).

The catch: the record is split by date and by nation; lower-value contracts from procurements started before 24 February 2025 appear on Contracts Finder (since 1 October 2026 new information about those older procurements goes on Find a Tender instead), lower-value contracts of Scotland's devolved bodies, old and new, on Public Contracts Scotland, and those of Northern Ireland's own authorities on its regional portals. Cresques does not read Find a Tender, so it shows no UK award evidence; Ireland, an EU member, is on TED.

First e-mail: allowed. PECR allows marketing e-mail to corporate subscribers if you do not hide your identity and give a valid opt-out address; sole traders and partnerships need consent. See United Kingdom.

The five records side by side

What this means for a manufacturer

As on TED, an award notice is a public record that a named company sold a category to a public buyer, and companies named repeatedly in your category already hold the buyers' trust.

• Start with the codes. In Switzerland, Ukraine and Serbia your EU CPV codes work as they are; the Cresques materials reader suggests them from a brochure or a website. For Türkiye, translate your product terms into Turkish.
• Read the catch before the winners. Ukraine's localisation list and Türkiye's domestic price advantage shape who wins.
• Contact by the country's rule. A letter, a fair or an introduction works everywhere; e-mail depends on the line above.

Cresques offers markets only in EU and EEA countries today and does not read simap.ch, Prozorro, the Serbian portal, EKAP or Find a Tender. The country pages set out the route and the lawful first contact for each, and note what we could not confirm on conformity: whether the EU–Switzerland MRA's machinery chapter will be updated for Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, and whether an EU–Ukraine conformity agreement (ACAA) is in force. This post reflects our country pages as of 16 October 2026; it is general information, not legal advice.