Finding public tenders in Lithuania: CPV codes and TED

In most companies, finding public tenders looks like this: every morning someone opens the Lithuanian procurement portal, types a few words, scans the new notices and emails the promising ones to a manager. It works until that person goes on holiday, until a tender is described in different words, or until the buyer is in another country. This article covers where tenders are actually published, how to choose CPV codes, and what to know about searching CVP IS and TED — written for a Lithuanian company's sales or bid manager, and for owners who want to know whether their team is seeing everything it should.

Where public tenders are published

• •CVP IS (viesiejipirkimai.lt) — Lithuanian procurement. Since 1 December 2024 every procurement has run in the new system; the old address only lets you search information on older procurements.
• •TED — the EU's tenders journal, where higher-value procurements from every EU country are published, Lithuania included.
• •Other countries' national registers — Latvia, Estonia, Poland and so on. Their smaller tenders never reach TED.

The consequence is simple. Watching only TED misses most Baltic tenders; watching only CVP IS misses every foreign buyer. On top of that, some low-value purchases are run by asking a few suppliers directly and are never advertised, so relationships with buyers matter as much as search does.

CPV codes: how to choose them

CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary; BVPŽ in Lithuanian) codes are how a buyer labels what it is buying. They are hierarchical: the first digits mark a broad division, and each further digit narrows it to a smaller group. Every register filters by them, so a well-built code list is half the search.

• •Core codes — what you sell directly. Watch all of them.
• •Broader codes — higher-level groups where buyers sometimes label your goods or services imprecisely. Combine them with a keyword, or the list fills up with noise.
• •Codes to exclude — they overlap with yours but aren't your business. An equipment supplier, for example, doesn't need maintenance contracts for the same equipment.
• •Keywords — buyers make coding mistakes, so a word in the title sometimes catches what the code misses.

A good test: take the tenders you won, or wanted to win, over the past year and look at the codes they were labelled with. Quite often some of them would not show up in your current search.

Searching CVP IS: what to know

When the new CVP IS launched in December 2024, every user had to register again. Since 23 September 2026, logging in also requires a one-time code from an authenticator app on your phone, and the Public Procurement Office reminds users that each person needs their own account. If several people in your company check tenders and submit bids, a shared login no longer works.

The notice itself is only the start. The information that decides whether you can bid usually sits in the procurement documents: qualification requirements, deadlines, contract terms. Reading them takes most of the time, so the earlier you can rule out tenders that are fundamentally wrong for you, the better.

TED and tenders abroad

TED covers the larger tenders, but a neighbouring country's smaller tenders sit in its national register, in Latvian, Estonian or Polish. English or Lithuanian keywords won't find them there. This is where CPV codes earn their keep: they are the same in every EU country, whatever the language. If you are after Ukrainian reconstruction or donor-funded tenders, those are published elsewhere again.

Why checking every morning still misses tenders

• •The search depends on one person's habit, and it stops when they are away.
• •Each portal is checked separately, and the same tender in two registers looks like two different ones.
• •A tender that was found travels by email or spreadsheet, and two weeks later nobody remembers who decided not to bid, or why.
• •The deadline is spotted too late, with only a few days left to read the documents.

For a manager, the cost isn't the morning hour. It's the tender that fit perfectly and that nobody saw — and the fact that there is no way to know how often that happens.

Where Ezura helps

Ezura's public tender radar collects notices every working day from CVP IS, the Latvian, Estonian and Polish registers and TED, and keeps only those that match your CPV codes, keywords, countries, value and contract type — goods, services or works. Each notice shows why it matched. Selection follows your rules, not an AI's hunch, and before you change your profile you see how many notices it would have found over the past 90 days. New notices reach you by email according to your rules, with foreign titles translated. You still submit your bid in the procurement system, as usual.

If you also use Ezura CRM, a tender you're interested in becomes a card on your sales board in one step — with the bid deadline, value, owner and a link to the notice. The tender stops living in a separate email and sits alongside every other deal.