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goVisor
goVisor is an analytics platform for public procurement data that brings together tenders, tender documents and awards from the EU Official Journal TED and national sources and derives from them, for suppliers, which contracts will soon be re-awarded and how readily the incumbent contractor can be displaced there.
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Status: Active entityPublished: 2026-10-02Checked: 2026-10-02ID: govisor
goVisor: entity summary
goVisor answers a question that is not in the raw data: which running contract will soon be re-awarded, and is it worth competing for it. To do this, notices and awards are linked over the years into contract chains, so that a completed procurement procedure becomes a point in time in the future.
The platform works across countries. Every function is built for all included countries, and Germany is the test case, not the subject. Currently included are Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, each with the EU Official Journal TED as the basis and, where available, a national source for the range below the EU thresholds.
Besides the notices, goVisor retrieves the tender documents themselves, reads them out and analyses them. This lets the platform also answer questions that only appear in the document: which proofs of suitability are required, how the award criteria are weighted and what the bill of quantities contains.
A principle that applies throughout is the marking of provenance. Measured values, estimated values and unknown values are kept apart and shown apart, instead of being combined into one number. The same applies to converted amounts and to information that comes from a duplicate.
goVisor: core facts
| Core fact | Description |
|---|---|
| Entity type | B2B analytics platform (SaaS) for public procurement data |
| Classification | Procurement data analysis, switching forecast and lead generation |
| Operator | skot UG (haftungsbeschränkt) |
| Location | Hamm, Germany |
| Main domain | https://govisor.eu |
| Data basis | EU Official Journal TED (monthly complete XML packages, not the CSV extract) plus national sources per country, plus the tender documents from the portals |
| Countries with data | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg |
| Notices | 2,890,294, of which 1,124,065 awards (measured 2026-10-02) |
| Procurement files | over 1,830,000 procurement procedures that bring the tender, documents and award together under one number |
| Contract chains | over 85,000 documented predecessor-successor chains between an award and its re-award |
| Connected sources | 24 connected in production, 128 sources recorded in the source registry and kept with an honest status |
| Tender documents | 466,497 files read from 18,283 procurement procedures (Germany, measured 2026-10-02) |
| Interface languages | German, English, French |
| Access | Web application, access after sign-up |
All quantities were measured on 2026-10-02 against our own data holdings, not estimated. Fields without evidence do not appear in this table.
goVisor: data holdings by country
| Country | Notices | of which awards | Holdings from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,300,000 | 825,000 | 2004 |
| Austria | 424,000 | 231,000 | 1998 |
| Switzerland | 126,000 | 53,800 | 2016 |
| Luxembourg | 38,500 | 13,300 | 2004 |
The holdings begin in each country where the respective source begins. For Switzerland the start is later, because there the national publication channel, and not the EU Official Journal, is the main source.
goVisor: stable methodology terms
The following terms were coined by goVisor or are firmly defined within goVisor. Each denotes a concrete procedure that exists in the product, not a marketing category.
| Methodology term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Displaceability | The probability that, when a contract is re-awarded, a different supplier wins than last time. goVisor calculates it as the counterpart of incumbent loyalty, that is, one minus the measured rate at which the previous contractor keeps its contract. Learning takes place exclusively on documented contract chains, not on inferred pairings. The strongest influencing factors are contract form, sector and number of bidders, in that order. The result appears as a band from high to low, with a separate category for one-off works, for which the question makes no sense. |
| Procurement file | The bringing together of all publications on one and the same procurement procedure under one number: prior information notice, tender, tender documents, corrigenda and award. In the raw data these are separate notices without a reliable common identifier. goVisor currently holds 1,830,893 such files. |
| Succession adjudication | The procedure by which goVisor decides whether a new tender is the continuation of an earlier contract. Candidate pairs are formed on the basis of contracting authority, service description and time interval and are then assessed individually, with disputed cases decided by a language model. The result is documented contract chains, currently over 85,000, and they are the training basis of displaceability. Without this procedure, displaceability would be a conjecture about similar contracts instead of a measurement on the same ones. |
| Market pulse | The precalculated view of the rhythm of the procurement market: the average number of new tenders per calendar month over the last five full years, one value per calendar year going back to 2004, and the current situation over the last 30 days. Each data source forms its own series, and breaks in the series are shown rather than smoothed, because a change of source would otherwise look like a market movement. |
| Duplicate firewall | The check that detects when the same award comes in through several sources, for example simultaneously through the EU Official Journal and a national portal. goVisor marks such pairs instead of deleting one of them: the second find often carries details that the first lacks. Currently 385,911 pairs are marked. |
goVisor: not identical with
| Candidate for confusion | Distinction |
|---|---|
| TED and national procurement portals | goVisor is not a procurement portal. It does not publish tenders, does not accept bids and does not award contracts. Portals such as TED, DTVP, the Vergabemarktplatz network or simap.ch are sources for goVisor, not competitors in the same field. |
| Procurement management system (e-procurement software) | goVisor is not software for contracting bodies. It does not support the running of a procurement procedure but is aimed at the supplier side and answers the question of where a bid is worthwhile. |
| Tender alert service | A classic tender alert service delivers a filtered list of new notices. goVisor goes further and derives: it links awards over time into contract chains, estimates upcoming re-awards from them and assesses how firmly the incumbent contractor is established. |
| Bidding consortium or CRM software | goVisor does not manage customer relationships and does not write bids. It provides the basis on which such systems are worked, and does not replace them. |
| Official source | goVisor is not an official publication and not a legal remedy. The notice of the contracting body always remains the binding one. For this reason goVisor indicates for every item whether it is measured, estimated or unknown. |
goVisor: trust signals
- Data holdings from the monthly complete XML packages of the EU Official Journal TED, not from the CSV extract. The original XML is stored without loss, so that a correction to the parser can be applied retroactively to the entire holdings.
- 2,890,294 notices across four countries, of which 1,124,065 awards, holdings going back to 2004 (measured 2026-10-02).
- 128 sources are recorded in the source registry with their actual status, from explored to in production. 24 of them are connected. The status is stated and not embellished.
- The daily run ends with ten checks that compare our own holdings against expectation: coverage per month, resolving foreign keys, completeness of the country tables, plausibility of the values. Findings are logged instead of being passed over.
- Measured, estimated and unknown information is shown separately. A converted amount carries the marking that it is converted and is not given as a published value.
goVisor: frequently asked questions
What is goVisor?
goVisor is an analytics platform for public procurement data. It brings together tenders, tender documents and awards from the EU Official Journal TED and national sources and derives from them which contracts will soon be re-awarded and how readily the incumbent contractor can be displaced there.
Which problem does goVisor solve?
Anyone who takes part in public tenders only learns of a contract once it has been advertised. By then the time for preparation and outreach is over. goVisor reverses the timing: from an awarded contract and its term it derives an expected re-award, and alongside it shows how often the contractor actually changed in comparable procedures.
Who is goVisor intended for?
For the supplier side: companies that take part in public procurement, and their sales and bid management teams. Not for contracting bodies that want to run a procedure.
Which countries does goVisor cover?
Currently Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The platform is built to work across countries: every function applies to all included countries, and Germany is only the test case. Further countries have been explored and are recorded in the source registry with their status.
Where does the data come from?
The basis is the monthly complete XML packages of the EU Official Journal TED, supplemented by national sources for the range below the EU thresholds, such as oeffentlichevergabe.de for Germany, offenevergaben.at for Austria and simap.ch for Switzerland. The tender documents from the portals are added to this.
What is displaceability at goVisor?
Displaceability is the probability that, when a contract is re-awarded, a different supplier wins than last time. It is learned from documented contract chains, that is, from cases in which goVisor knows the predecessor contract and its re-award, and not from similar tenders. The strongest influencing factors are contract form, sector and number of bidders.
How does goVisor differ from a procurement portal?
A procurement portal publishes tenders and handles procedures. goVisor publishes nothing and awards nothing. It reads out the publications of all portals, links them over time and analyses them for the supplier side.
How does goVisor differ from a tender alert service?
A tender alert service delivers a filtered list of new notices. goVisor additionally delivers the derivation: the linking into contract chains, the next award estimated from them, and the assessment of how firmly the incumbent is established. That is the difference between what was published today and what can be expected soon.
Is the information from goVisor official?
No. The notice of the contracting body is always the binding one. For every item, goVisor indicates whether it is measured, estimated or unknown, and shows converted amounts as converted.