Scoutee, the alternative to France Marchés that looks past the French border

About France Marchés

France Marchés is a free French public tender portal, funded by the regional daily press whose legal notices it carries. It publishes calls for tender and award notices collected from about 1,300 sources, French buyer platforms, official journals and newspapers, and sends email alerts to anyone who registers. There is no subscription, no plan and no invoice. The consultation file is not downloaded for the user: the notice links to the buyer's platform, where the documents are fetched and read by hand. There is no AI analysis, no company profile and no published API. Its audience is French companies that want a free watch on national contracts.

Why companies move from France Marchés to Scoutee

Reason 1: 1,300 sources, and all of them French

France Marchés counts its sources in France: buyer platforms, official journals and the regional press that funds it. That is the whole map. A company in Lille that hears about a Walloon contract, or a Savoyard firm invited to bid in Geneva, has to open foreign portals one by one. Scoutee collects more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries of Europe and North America, deduplicated into one notice per tender, in every plan including the free one.

Reason 2: the notice is not the file

On France Marchés a notice ends with a link to the buyer's platform. The consultation file is downloaded there, and its eighty pages are read by whoever has the time. Scoutee runs an analysis: it fetches the documents from that platform and extracts the deadlines, the budget, the requirements and the criteria that would exclude the company, on one page shared by the workspace. Two analyses a month on the free plan, a hundred on Pro, unlimited on Team, and rereading one already run costs nothing.

Reason 3: searching in the language of the notice

France Marchés is searched in French, which is enough for French notices. Scoutee proposes keywords from the company profile and translates them into the 24 languages of its sources, so the same search reaches Belgian, Luxembourgish, Swiss, German and Spanish notices without writing a word of Dutch or German. Saved searches keep that translation, and the company memory holds the references, certifications and past bids the next answer starts from.

Reason 4: one alert per search, not one address to watch

France Marchés emails alerts, for free, on French notices. On Scoutee the free plan sends one daily alert, and Pro at 49 euros a month sends a daily alert on every saved search: one for cleaning contracts in Hauts-de-France, another for the same trade in Wallonia, a third for a framework agreement in Luxembourg. Team, at 149 euros a month, adds the award history, who won what, for ten users.

Where France Marchés is strong

• It is free, with no plan and no commitment, and it stays free.
• About 1,300 French sources, including the legal notices of the regional daily press.
• Award notices are published alongside the calls for tender.
• Funded by the press rather than by subscriptions, so there is no sales process to go through.

FAQ

Does France Marchés cover tenders outside France?

No. Its sources are French buyer platforms, official journals and regional newspapers. European coverage through TED is not stated on the site. A company answering a contract in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland or Germany needs another source. Scoutee collects more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries of Europe and North America.

How much does France Marchés cost?

Nothing. The service is free, funded by the regional press, with no paid plan to compare. For a company that bids only in France and reads the consultation files itself, that can be enough. Scoutee's free plan is also free; it adds the other countries, the documents and two analyses a month.

Can I try Scoutee before paying?

Yes, and the free plan is not a trial: it never expires. It searches every source Scoutee collects, saves searches, sends one daily alert and runs two tender analyses a month. Pro at 49 euros a month and Team at 149 euros a month are cancellable at any time.

Does Scoutee send free alerts like France Marchés?

Yes. The free plan sends one daily alert on a saved search, and only when something matches. Pro sends a daily alert on every saved search, in the 30-plus countries of the index. The alerts are part of the plan, not an option.

Is Scoutee's coverage really included in every plan?

Yes. Free, Pro and Team search the same index, more than 100 official sources in more than 30 countries, collected every night and deduplicated. The plans differ by alerts, analyses, users and the award history on Team, never by geography.

Sources

• France Marchés, notices, alerts and sources, read on 13 September 2026: francemarches.com.
• BOAMP, the free official French portal, read on 13 September 2026: boamp.fr.
• Scoutee, pricing and coverage: scoutee.org/en/pricing and scoutee.org/en/sources.