Procurement

Public procurement is the purchasing of works, services and supplies by public bodies. EU public procurement is an important part of the single market and is governed by rules intended to remove barriers and open up markets in a non-discriminatory and competitive way.

As an EU body, the EPPO is committed to respecting EU procurement rules when contracting economic operators (persons, companies or other legal entities), respecting the key principles of transparency, equal treatment and widest competition, proportionality and sound financial management. 

The choice of the procurement procedure, the required publicity and the kind of contract to be used depends mainly on the value of the purchase, its subject and repetitiveness.

Our procurement procedures are governed by Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and the EPPO Financial Rules  and respect the basic principles of transparency, equal treatment and widest competition, proportionality and sound financial management.

On this page, you can find information about our open and closed calls. 

Due to transparency reasons, we also make available lists of contracts signed during the previous years (See the annual list of contracts section below).

Like other EU bodies, we also publish our large procurement calls on the EU’s eTendering website.

If you have questions, you can reach out to us via our website contact form, by choosing the ‘General information’ option in the dropdown menu.

The EPPO is fully committed to a high standard of protection of your personal data in line with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. To this purpose, a dedicated Data Protection Notice for Procurement Procedures and Contract Management is available.