EU public procurement thresholds 2026–2027: the full table

On 1 January 2026, the EU procurement thresholds did something unusual: they went down. A €142,000 supply contract for a ministry was below the EU threshold in December 2025. A week later, the same contract was above it — meaning EU-wide publication on TED, where any European supplier can find it.

Thresholds are revised every two years, and the revisions normally nudge upward. The 2026–2027 round cut all four headline figures. Small numbers, real consequences: contracts near the line moved from national-only publication into the EU-wide arena, and vice versa for nobody.

The 2026–2027 thresholds

These apply from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2027, set by Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2025/2152 and its sister regulations of 22 October 2025. Amounts are net of VAT.

What	2026–2027 threshold	2024–2025 (before)
Works contracts (all contracting authorities)	€5,404,000	€5,538,000
Supplies & services — central government	€140,000	€143,000
Supplies & services — sub-central (regions, cities, most public bodies)	€216,000	€221,000
Social & other specific services ("light regime")	€750,000	€750,000
Utilities (water, energy, transport, post) — supplies & services	€432,000	€443,000
Utilities — works	€5,404,000	€5,538,000
Concessions	€5,404,000	€5,538,000

The authoritative list, including defence procurement, is on the European Commission's thresholds page. Why the decrease? The EUR amounts track the WTO Government Procurement Agreement's values, which are set in special drawing rights — this cycle, the exchange-rate math went down instead of up.

What crossing the threshold actually changes

Above the threshold, a buyer must follow the full EU directives: publication in the EU-wide TED database, minimum time limits for bids, standstill periods before signing, and remedies if the procedure goes wrong. For you as a bidder, the practical part is the first one — above-threshold tenders are visible to the whole EU in one place.

Below the threshold, EU-wide publication stops being mandatory. The tender still exists, is still public, and still gets awarded — but it appears only on a national portal, in the national language, under national rules. From our own pipelines: the six national portals we monitor publish hundreds of such tenders every working day that never reach TED.

National thresholds exist too

Most member states run their own procurement bands below the EU lines. Hungary is a concrete example: from 1 January 2026 the national thresholds are HUF 20 million (≈ €50,000) for supplies and services and HUF 60 million (≈ €150,000) for works, unchanged from 2025, per the Public Procurement Authority's official notice. Between the national and EU thresholds, Hungarian buyers tender under the national regime on EKR — which is why a €100,000 Hungarian IT contract is real, public, and invisible on TED.

Each country draws these lines differently. Our country guides cover where tenders are actually published in Hungary, Czechia, Poland, Austria, Germany, and Finland.

What to do with this

If you sell supplies or services and your contracts run above ~€216,000 (€140,000 when the buyer is central government): those tenders must be on TED, from every member state. The problem there is volume (we filter roughly 2,700 live competition notices out of TED per day) and keyword search across 24 languages — a findability problem, not a coverage one. Mind the works exception: for construction the EU line sits at €5.4 million, so even multi-million works contracts can be national-only.

If your contracts run smaller: the tenders you can win are on national portals, and no amount of TED-watching will surface them. You need the portal of every country you sell in — or a service that watches them for you.

BidScout does both: the free plan matches you against the EU-wide TED feed, and Pro (€49/month) adds the six national portals above the same AI matching. Either way, the thresholds decide what's findable where — now you know the 2026 lines.