Blog · notes on public money
Short pieces on EU tenders, grant calls, and getting an AI to do the reading. The setup guide for connecting Victano lives here too.
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One email a week on public money in Europe, drawn from the same notices Victano searches. We read every issue before it goes out, and the first one goes out with the beta launch.
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Kas yra EBVPD, ką jame deklaruojate pagal direktyvos 59 straipsnį, kodėl Lietuvos pirkimų skelbimai kvalifikacinių reikalavimų nenurodo ir ką patikrinti dokumentuose prieš pildant.
6 October 2026 · 7 min read
How CPV codes work, how to find the codes that describe what you sell, and why searching one exact code misses most of the open tenders you want. With live counts from 24 September 2026.
2026 m. spalio 2 d. · 7 min skaitymo
Kas yra BVPŽ kodai, kodėl paieška pagal vieną tikslų kodą praleidžia daugumą tinkamų pirkimų ir kaip ieškoti pagal skyrių ir žodžius. Su tikrais 2026-ųjų rugsėjo skaičiais.
1 October 2026 · 7 min read
What a tender alert and a saved keyword search can tell you. With a recorded run where an agent turned 525 matching notices into a three-line bid or no-bid sheet.
29 September 2026 · 7 min read
Where Horizon Europe and other EU calls are published, and why national schemes sit somewhere else. With a recorded run that shortlists EU calls for one company in about a minute.
24 September 2026 · 6 min read
A bid/no-bid checklist you can copy: three gates, seven scored factors, a pass line, and a worked example on a real-shaped notice. Ten minutes, written down.
21 September 2026 · 6 min read
The three registers a UK supplier searches to find tenders, what each one publishes, the gaps between them, and where an agent that reads EU notices fits.
2026 m. rugsėjo 15 d. · 7 min skaitymo
Kas yra CVP IS, kaip skaityti skelbimą ir kur smulkios įmonės praranda sutartis dar prieš vertinimą.
1 September 2026 · 6 min read
Germany, Poland and France account for more than half of open notices in our corpus. What that means if you are a supplier in a smaller market, and why volume is the wrong ranking.
25 August 2026 · 6 min read
Real figures from 90 days of TED notices: which countries publish most, which categories dominate, how few are in English, and what we cannot tell you yet.
25 August 2026 · 7 min read
What TED is, what a contract notice contains, why small suppliers get excluded before anyone reads their bid, and the rules that exist to help them.
25 August 2026 · 5 min read
How to give Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client access to EU tenders and grant calls, with the exact steps for each client.
Say this to Claude Code, Cursor or any assistant that sets itself up, and it connects itself.
Read https://victano.com/start.md and follow the onboarding instructions.