Award notice Services
Subscription to AFP
- Public buyer
- European Parliament, EPRS - Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services
Brussels - Place of performance
- 1047 Brussels
not published: buyer's address - Amount awarded
- €428,245 excl. VAT
- Bids received
- 1
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication
The buyer consulted a few companies directly: it is no longer possible to take part. - Publication
- 10 December 2025
- Notice language
- English
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Description
Subscription to AFP a) AFP General News service and b) AFP mobile service for 80 users The Library subscription to AFP news wires is a longstanding service provided to European Parliament community. The content is delivered to the end users through various means of access, such as publication on Intranet pages, subscription to email newsletters, or IP recognition. AFP provides national and international news in French.
AFP delivers fast, accurate, in-depth news from every corner of the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The AFP newswire service is only offered as a general subscription to its real-time newsfeed. By nature, its main purpose being to keep the clients continuously updated.
The information is clear, proposed in several languages (6) under different media forms: text, video, photo, graphic and audio. Rich quality of the products and services provided with a big coverage of countries. Access to this source was explicitly requested by the DG COMM Media Monitoring Service as an essential tool for its daily work, in particular for the preparation of the daily newsletter sent to EP users.
Awarded to
CPV codes
European codes that classify what the contract is about. They are how we find the tenders for your trade.
92400000
Winning prices for comparable contracts
- A quarter below
- €299,000
- Median
- €428,245
- A quarter above
- €550,000
Amounts awarded (excl. VAT) over the last 3 years for 5 contracts in the same CPV group (9240…), excluding framework agreements. Half of the contracts fall between the two quartiles. TED source: mostly contracts above the EU thresholds, so amounts tend to be high.
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Source : TED – Office des publications de l'Union européenne © Union européenne, données retraitées. Reference 818082-2025.