Sector · Defence
Find your place in defence procurement.
Equipment, spare parts, infrastructure and support: defence procurement is much wider than weapons. VIGLIA maps published purchases to your catalogue and keeps open procurements, upstream information and past awards apart. A visible notice never proves supplier access, clearance or eligibility.
Your catalogue is the reference. You keep the decision.
A requirement. Your offer. The checks that remain.
- Official channel and procurement status
- Eligibility, registration and clearances
- Accessible lot and supply-chain role
01 · Trade signal
Read the signal, not just the title
Three archetypes written by VIGLIA to illustrate the sector. They are not published notices: no named buyer, value or date.
- 01
Illustrative example
Typical buyer Defence ministry procurement service
Personal protective equipment for the armed forces
Check before committing Testing and samples, information-security clauses
- 02
Illustrative example
Typical buyer NATO acquisition agency
Spare parts for a vehicle fleet
Check before committing Supplier registration, eligible countries and conditions specific to the procurement
- 03
Illustrative example
Typical buyer Defence programme prime contractor
Build-to-print subcontracting of mechanical sub-assemblies
Check before committing Quality system, export control and confidentiality
02 · Market reading
The opportunity families
- 01 Equipment and systems
- 02 Parts, maintenance and support
- 03 Infrastructure and base services
- 04 Digital, communications and expertise
03 · Qualification
Before committing the team
Public notices do not reveal every restricted procurement or every tier-two requirement. An announced programme is not an accessible lot; registration, clearances, export control and reserved documents must be confirmed on the official channel.
- Official channel and procurement status
- Eligibility, registration and clearances
- Accessible lot and supply-chain role
- Export, sovereignty and technical evidence
Buyers and channels
French Ministry of the Armed Forces, DGA, SIMMT, SSA: where they publish
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces buys through specialised directorates and services. Their procurements are published on PLACE, the French State procurement platform that also holds the documents and receives bids, in the BOAMP and, above the EU thresholds, in the Official Journal of the EU (TED). The achats.defense.gouv.fr portal presents the ministry’s non-weapons needs and points to these publications.
- DGA (Direction générale de l’armement, the French defence procurement agency)
- Armament purchases. Notices on PLACE and in the BOAMP, in the OJEU above the thresholds; some documents stay reserved for admitted candidates.
- SIMMT (through-life support of land equipment)
- Armament purchases for land-equipment support: spare parts, repair and fleet support. Notices on PLACE and in the BOAMP.
- SSA (French Military Health Service)
- Non-weapons purchases: health products, medical equipment and services. Notices on PLACE and in the BOAMP, also listed on achats.defense.gouv.fr.
- Other services (SCA, SID, DIRISI, DMAé, SIAé…)
- Each buys within its own segments; identify the buying service named in the notice rather than following “the ministry” as a whole.
achats.defense.gouv.fr: purchasing directorates and services (in French)
04 · Method
From catalogue to decision
- 01
Your catalogue
Declare products and capabilities, their uses, your existing registrations and clearances and the countries you can serve.
- 02
The documents
VIGLIA records the source, status and channel of the procurement and maps its object to your catalogue without presuming eligibility.
- 03
Your decision
Eligibility, clearances and export controls are checked by your team on the official channel before committing to a bid.
Viglia Tenders matches these families with your actual catalogue and gives each opportunity an explained score and a sourced summary of the tender documents it can access. A missing document stays an unknown; it never counts as a requirement you already meet.
05 · CPV 2008
CPV codes worth knowing
Official labels from the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV 2008, Regulation (EC) No 213/2008). A code helps you explore a portal, not decide: VIGLIA also qualifies notice text and documents.
Reference: the official CPV vocabulary on TED . These editorial pointers are not a default targeting profile for your company.
Find more CPV codes- 35000000-4 Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
- 35400000-8 Military vehicles and associated parts
- 35700000-1 Military electronic systems
- 75220000-4 Defence services
- 50600000-1 Repair and maintenance services of security and defence materials
06 · Honest boundary
Scope and limits
Public notices do not reveal every restricted procurement or every tier-two requirement. An announced programme is not an accessible lot; registration, clearances, export control and reserved documents must be confirmed on the official channel.
VIGLIA compares notices from active sources with your private catalogue. The buyer portal, current procurement documents and your company evidence remain authoritative for eligibility and response decisions.
Check the sources agreed for your account. National portals such as the French BOAMP, the EU’s TED and buyer profiles are entry points; they do not guarantee that every local portal or restricted procedure is accessible. The procurement documents defined in Directive 2014/24/EU set the requirements, clauses and response terms for EU public buyers; international agencies apply their own procedures.
VIGLIA serves many sectors. Your scope comes from your catalogue, territories and exclusions rather than from this sector list. Bid / no-bid screening is included in Viglia and the decision stays human; Viglia AutoSender, which builds and sends the response, is not commercially available yet.
The examples above are editorial archetypes with no source, date or status of a real notice. They are not a list of open opportunities. To look at another supplier activity, browse the public tenders by sector.
07 · Resources
Further reading
Related sectors
Free digest · France · in French
Explore the Defence digest
A generic sector selection of tenders published in France on BOAMP, PLACE and TED France on Mondays when at least one notice was selected. It does not match your private catalogue or goals; the free digest is in French.
View the free French digestYour opportunities in 48h
Get the first public tenders for your company
Tell us your company and sector: the VIGLIA team selects the open public tenders that fit and sends you the report within 48 hours.
- A person reviews every request before any search: nothing is sent automatically.
- The report arrives as a read-only link, at the address you give below.
- Sources: notices published on the public platforms VIGLIA follows. Every opportunity links to its official notice.