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The main vocabulary of the Common Procurement Vocabulary contains 9,454 codes, and every one of them begins with a two-digit division number. There are 45 divisions. That is the number worth remembering, because the divisions do not run from 01 to 99. They skip. There is no division 01 and no 02, the sequence jumps … Read more

Most suppliers who complain that there are no relevant public tenders in their field are wrong. The tenders are there. They are simply filed under codes the supplier never thought to watch. In European public procurement, a short string of digits decides whether an opportunity ever reaches you, and small mistakes with those digits quietly … Read more