Design tender alerts · EU · UK · Switzerland

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StudioTenders reads the official tender platforms of Europe, the UK and Switzerland every weekday. Every Friday it sends design studios the briefs that fit: brand, graphic, web and UX, signage, motion and competitions. Each one is summarised in plain English, with the deadline, the value and the official link. When a very good fit appears, Pro tells you the same day.

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Three of the 14 design tenders with fit ≥ 5 published Mon 12 Oct – Sun 18 Oct 2026, exactly as they appear in the digest.

GBFind a TenderGraphic design
Fit9/10

Brand communications and creative design services for Northern Regional College

Northern Regional College

Original title: The Provision of Brand Communications and Creative Design Services for Northern Regional College

Northern Regional College wants a supplier for brand communications, creative design and print management to support its marketing activity. One lot, flagged as suitable for SMEs, open procedure.

Value
£400,000≈ €474,018 (ECB rate 16 Oct)
Deadline
Mon 16 Nov 202628 days left on 18 Oct
Procedure
Open1 lot
Bid language
English

Uncertain. The short notice gives no contract duration; check the tender documents.

Official notice Find a Tender 096591-2026 Summary machine-generated from the original English.
FRTEDWeb design
Fit9/10

Redesign of the City of Clichy website

Mairie de Clichy-la-Garenne

Original title: REFONTE DU SITE INTERNET DE LA VILLE DE CLICHY

The City of Clichy-la-Garenne is putting the redesign (refonte) of its municipal website out to tender. The published notice repeats the title and adds no further scope, so the brief is only in the tender documents. One lot, open procedure, bids in French.

Value
€210,000
Deadline
Mon 23 Nov 202635 days left on 18 Oct
Procedure
Open1 lot
Bid language
French

Uncertain. The notice gives no scope beyond the title (design vs. build vs. hosting split unknown).

Official notice TED 708553-2026 Summary machine-generated from the original French.
IETEDGraphic designDesign consultancy
Fit8/10

Multi-party framework for creative services, Regional Waste Management Planning Offices (MyWaste)

Dublin City Council

Original title: Establishment of a multi-party framework agreement for the provision of creative services for the Regional Waste Management Planning Offices

Dublin City Council is setting up a multi-party framework for design and creative services for the Regional Waste Management Planning Offices. Work should follow the MyWaste brand guidelines without being fully bound by them, and some assets are needed in Irish. Two mutually exclusive lots: Lot 1, assignments of €20,000 or less (est. €1M in total); Lot 2, larger strategic assignments above €20,000 (est. €2M). Competitive procedure with negotiation, starting with a pre-qualification questionnaire; the date below is the deadline for requests to participate. Rights to the creative assets pass to the contracting authority. The project is subject to funding.

Value
€3,000,000
Deadline
Thu 12 Nov 202624 days left on 18 Oct · request to participate
Procedure
Competitive with negotiation2 lots
Bid language
English

Uncertain. The notice still contains a placeholder ('Resource ID xxxxxxx'); look up the competition on etenders.gov.ie. The €3M is the framework ceiling (Lot 1 + Lot 2), not guaranteed spend. Data conflict: the notice text gives €1M (Lot 1) and €2M (Lot 2), but the structured lot values show €3M for each lot. We use the €3M procedure total.

Official notice TED 709722-2026 Summary machine-generated from the original English.

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How it works

Four quiet steps, every week.

  1. 01

    Read

    Before breakfast we collect the new notices from TED, Find a Tender and simap.ch through their official APIs. No scraping.

  2. 02

    Filter

    Design CPV codes and a keyword list in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and more keep the design work and drop the rest. Corrections update the original item instead of repeating it.

  3. 03

    Explain

    Each notice gets a fit score from 0 to 10 and a short summary in plain English, written from the original language. Anything unclear is flagged, not guessed.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    A weekly email every Friday, covering all regions. On Pro, an instant alert when a high-fit brief appears (never more than one a day) and reminders 7 and 2 days before the deadline of every listed tender.

Coverage

Europe, the UK and Switzerland in one feed.

Three official sources, one format, one language. We found no other design-focused service that includes simap.ch.

EU · EEA

TED

Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU’s official journal for public procurement. All EU member states plus EEA countries such as Norway.

ted.europa.eu

UK

Find a Tender

The UK Government’s service for higher-value public contracts, including notices under the Procurement Act 2023.

find-tender.service.gov.uk

CH

simap.ch

The Swiss platform for federal, cantonal and municipal procurement, including design competitions. Swiss items are sent from 08:00 Zurich time.

simap.ch

510creative-CPV tender notices on TED in the 30 days to 18 Oct 2026 (our own API query).
14design tenders with fit ≥ 5 in one sample week, 12–18 Oct 2026: EU/EEA 12 · UK 2 · CH 0.
32 daysmedian time to bid across that week’s 14 tenders with a stated deadline.

Disciplines

Brand & graphicWeb & UXSignage & exhibitionMotion & filmDesign competitionsCampaigns, PR & events with design work

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DACHFrance/BeneluxUK/IENordicsSouth ES IT PT GRCEESwitzerland
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Questions

Good to know.

What counts as a “design tender”?

Public contracts where the work is design: brand and graphic design, web and UX, signage, exhibition and wayfinding, motion and film, and design competitions. We match the official CPV codes (for example 79822500 graphic design, 72413000 website design, 79933000 design support, 92111000 film) and a multilingual keyword list, because a lot of design work is filed under other codes. Advertising, PR and event contracts are included when they carry real design work.

Where does the data come from?

Only from the official, free public APIs: TED (EU and EEA), Find a Tender (UK) and simap.ch (Switzerland). We do not scrape websites. Every item links to the official notice. Data sources and licences.

Is StudioTenders an official publication?

No. We republish the facts of each notice and add our own summary. The official notice is always authoritative, and you bid through the official platform. For Swiss items: Dies ist keine amtliche Veröffentlichung. Massgebend sind die auf der Plattform www.simap.ch veröffentlichten Daten.

How reliable are the summaries?

Values, deadlines and lots are taken from the notices’ structured fields, not from the summary. The plain-English summary is machine-generated from the original language and checked against those fields before sending. When something is unclear or the notice contradicts itself, we say so in an “Uncertain” line rather than guess.

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Everyone gets the weekly email on Friday morning: the top 3 on Free, the full list on Pro and Studio. Pro and Studio also get an instant alert when a high-fit brief (fit 7 or more) appears, at most one email a day and only on days when there is one, plus reminders 7 and 2 days before the deadline of every listed tender. Swiss items from simap.ch are never sent before 08:00 Zurich time on their publication day, as simap’s terms require.

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What does a fit score mean?

A 0–10 score for how likely a notice is a good design brief for a studio: how strongly it matches design codes and keywords, whether the value is studio-sized, how much time is left to bid, whether it is open and split into lots, and whether foreign bidders and English look possible. It is a sorting aid, not advice.

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