Target Audience

The general goal of TEDective was to make European public procurement data explorable for non-experts. Every year, public institutions in the EU spend more than €2 trillion on various goods and services. While the EU publishes a lot of data about public procurement in the form of TED, somebody interested in European public procurement still faces a lot of difficulties: TED data is overly complex, doesn’t follow the international and interoperable Open Contracting Data Standard and is hard to explore as the UI provided by TED is limited to basic filtering and search.

Given the nature of problem, and general audience of TED data, we can name the potential user groups:

• Journalists doing research for a story that include some entity that was either buyer or supplier
• Scientists who are doing economic/juristic research
• Companies who want to compare their competitiveness with some entity that was either buyer or supplier
• Lawyers who are building the case around some entity that was either buyer or supplier
• Curious citizens who want to explore where the tax money goes to

User groups listed above are of course just an example, there are probably many other user groups that could benefit from the existence TEDective that we had not thought about at the time of writing this.