https://jorpex.com/ledger/ What governments are buying. A weekly brief of signals, firsts and curiosities from public procurement in 50+ countries, by Jorpex. en Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-28.html https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-28.html Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Nº 005, reviewed from 26,841 notices across 169 countries: Frontex tenders its first stratospheric border-surveillance pilot, one HAPS platform flying 15 consecutive days over an undisclosed area of interest, for EUR 3.2m; four Nordic police tenders in one week cover drones, ballistic vests, uniforms and bulletproof embassy guard sheds; Denmark orders sensors for drones that identify themselves, which hostile drones need not; the Central Bank of Ireland quietly shops for its own euro coins; Croatia trades rubber boats for a 55-metre fisheries patrol ship; Britain opens GBP 24bn of frameworks in five days, one of them reviewing AI-assisted marking; France's hospitals order EUR 120m of paper towels on an 88-month framework; and a EUR 170,000 medical drone line would link Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-21.html https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-21.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Nº 004, reviewed from 29,086 notices across 169 countries: Norway's defence materiel agency seeks 20-year rights to NOK 13bn of dark fibre on two routes ending at the Swedish border, the same week the US amends its munitions-storage expansion at Rygge; Sweden and Norway quietly buy blast-wave analysts, shelter repairs and a national iodine stockpile; BARDA restocks pandemic flu vaccines on terms no mRNA developer meets; Denmark's oil-spill patrol prepares to change ministries; Dover builds for border queues that outlast the software; the US Air Force orders the DJI drones Washington banned; NHS Wales prices a framework at GBP 105bn to the pound; Bolivia tenders animatronic dinosaurs, several of which are not dinosaurs; and the EU rents armoured cars at EUR 20,000 a month each. https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-14.html https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-14.html Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Nº 003, reviewed from 35,715 notices across 167 countries: Maripa-Soula in French Guiana invokes an accelerated procedure to buy atmospheric water fountains for four Wayana villages ahead of a critical dry season; Germany's BSI tenders test requirements for agentic AI; six European forces buy ballistic kit in five days; Estonia's grid operator budgets EUR 28.7m for a crisis centre; Britain posts a GBP 3bn cleaning framework; Austria values a Schwaz tobacconist at EUR 117.9m; Norway orders 80 diesel tanks to be sledded to Troll station; and Christmas is procured in August. https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-07.html https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-08-07.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Drawn from 27,409 procurement notices published in the week of 31 July to 6 August 2026 across 165 countries. Poland's East Shield quartermaster runs a two-week tender for anti-tank hedgehogs with stated totals that outrun the programme's budget, while 95 Polish town halls buy sirens, generators and a slurry tanker in a single week. The UN's Libya mission gives freight forwarders four days to quote on an ammunition run from Brazil to Tripoli. Also: Israel's request for information on a robot-training city of deliberately cracked pavements, Wiesbaden's counter-side AI avatar, National Grid's GBP 400m strategy-consulting framework, a joint Swedish-Norwegian ballistic-shield order, and twelve years of hand-gilded Danish regimental colours. https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-07-31.html https://jorpex.com/ledger/editions/2026-07-31.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT The first edition of The Tender Ledger, drawn from 26,511 procurement notices published in the week of 24 to 30 July 2026 across 163 countries. The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking opened a EUR 10bn tender for AI gigafactory consortia and, in the process, sorted thirteen candidate member states into medium-scale and large-scale tiers for the first time. Frontex is seeking EUR 522.6m of crewed maritime surveillance aircraft, roughly twenty times the value of any other notice from the agency in our database, with life-raft drops written into the specification. NATO's communications agency is shopping for a system to inspect encrypted traffic across its own networks. Eight German public authorities have tendered ballistic vests since mid-May. Paris has re-advertised the Vincennes racecourse concession it signed in 2025, after the prefect challenged the award in court. Plus a first appearance for environmental RNA testing, and EUR 10m of French hospital pest control with pigeons as their own category.