Terms and conditions of procurement

When a purchase is rail-industry specific or security-related, or requires specialized knowledge, we solicit tenders from companies we have qualified in advance. Every year, we publish a qualification notice for each procurement category in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). If your company would like to apply, please consult the notice for your category.

Products, services and engineering works that do not appear in the OJEU list do not require advance qualification. In these cases, we publish tender notices and solicit tenders from companies which meet our selection criteria.

We solicit tenders from as many candidate companies as required by the nature of each contract. Winning qualification or responding to a notice published in the OJEU does not guarantee that your company will be invited to tender.

The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) publishes two types of notice:

• qualification notices—for products that require advance qualification
• tender notices—for bidding on specific projects

These announcements do not appear in official tender notices and are usually used by regions to find providers for works projects.

Notices are available at the links below:

View tender notices

View qualification notices

View the Supplement to the Official Journal