How to find public tenders in Hungary (EKR guide)

Our Hungarian pipeline ingests around 17 new tenders a day from EKR, and they share two traits: they're published in Hungarian only, and most of them never appear on TED. If Hungary is one of your markets, this is the portal that decides what you see.

Where Hungarian tenders are published

EKR (Elektronikus Közbeszerzési Rendszer, ekr.gov.hu) is Hungary's central e-procurement platform — procedures under the Hungarian procurement act run through it end to end, from notice to bid submission. The Közbeszerzési Értesítő, the official procurement gazette published by the Public Procurement Authority on kozbeszerzes.hu, carries the formal notices.

The value bands decide where a tender is visible. Above the EU thresholds (€140,000–€5.4 million depending on type), Hungarian tenders also go to TED, where any EU supplier can find them. Between the national thresholds — HUF 20 million for supplies and services, HUF 60 million for works in 2026 — and the EU lines, tenders run under the national regime and are published only in the Hungarian system. That band is where a large share of winnable Hungarian contracts live.

Using EKR directly

Browsing is open: anyone can search published procedures on EKR without an account, filter by buyer, subject, or deadline, and read the notice data. Two things to know before you rely on it:

Documents need ügyfélkapu. The tender documentation — specifications, contract drafts, forms — sits behind Hungary's government identity login. Monitoring what exists is open; reading the full package generally requires the registered route. Plan for this before a deadline surprises you.

Everything is Hungarian. Titles, descriptions, documents. There is no English interface for the content itself.

One operational note from running against EKR daily since early 2026: it's the least predictable of the seven systems we integrate — the public interface occasionally answers with error pages instead of data, and our pipeline retries every request for exactly that reason. Budget patience if you're checking manually.

What BidScout covers

We pull new EKR notices twice a day, machine-translate the Hungarian titles to English, generate plain-language summaries in English and Hungarian, and match everything against your company profile. EKR is part of BidScout Pro (€49/month) alongside the other five national portals; the free plan covers the EU-wide TED layer — which, for Hungary, means exactly the above-threshold slice.

The practical route

If Hungary is your only market and you bid a few times a year: bookmark EKR's public search, check it twice a week, and sort out ügyfélkapu access early. If you bid more often, or Hungary is one market of several, hand the checking to software — ours or anyone's — because a 17-a-day stream in one language is exactly the kind of thing humans stop reading by week three.