Borrowers and promoters are fully responsible for implementing projects financed by the Bank, including all procurement activities, from drafting tender documents to awarding and implementing contracts.
The involvement of the Bank is confined solely to verifying whether the conditions attached to its financing are met. The Bank may advise or assist promoters in the procurement process but is not a party to the resulting contracts.
The Guide to Procurement outlines the EIB’s project procurement policy. Its purpose is to inform borrowers and project promoters whose contracts are financed by the EIB of the arrangements for procuring works, goods and services required for their projects.
Latest developments
EIB raising awareness on strategic procurement for Dutch companies
On 31 October 2025, the EIB’s Procurement Office was welcomed by VNO-NCW and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to host an information session for Dutch companies. The event aimed to raise awareness about the EIB’s financing tools and strategic procurement practices that support high-quality, sustainable projects.
The session opened with remarks from EIB Vice-President Robert de Groot and Robin Uyterlinde, EIB Board Member for the Netherlands.
Our procurement policy
Key features of the EIB’s procurement policy
The EIB procurement policy is principles-based, stemming from the EU Treaties and the EIB Statute: economy, efficiency, open international competition, equal treatment, non-discrimination, mutual recognition, proportionality, and transparency.
The EIB employs a dual approach to procurement as both an EU body and a multilateral development bank (MDB). Within the EU, the Guide to Procurement requires that the applicable EU Law on public procurement is applied. Outside the EU, the Guide to Procurement follows a hybrid approach, applying the main mechanisms of the EU procurement directives and MDBs’ best international practices.
The EIB has concluded mutual reliance agreements with several international financial institutions that allow them to rely on each other's procurement policies, procedures, and monitoring by the designated lead financier in co-financed operations outside the EU.
The Bank requires all projects to comply with its environmental and social requirements. Promoters are encouraged to contribute to protecting the environment, human well-being, human rights, gender equality, combating climate change, and promoting sustainable development. Tenderers and sub-contractors are required to execute the environmental and social covenant in operations outside the EU.
Promoters are required to review, take necessary actions to address, and respond in a timely manner to project procurement complaints. In addition, any member of the public may refer to a procurement complaint to the EIB.
The Bank is committed to ensuring that its operations are free from prohibited conduct. In its operations outside the EU, it requires that the covenant of integrity be provided and executed by any tenderer as a condition of eligibility.
Within its Exclusion Policy, the Bank may declare an individual or a firm ineligible for the award of a contract under any EIB-financed project, if it is established that they engaged in prohibited conduct during procurement or contract implementation.
Unlocking procurement opportunities
Market outreach
Discover the latest business opportunities and knowledge-sharing resources on procurement related to EIB-financed projects
Business opportunities
Find more information on contract notices for projects financed by the EIB outside the EU.
All projects
Find out more about the projects the EIB considers financing or is already financing.
Backing promoter-led procurement
Promoters corner
Download all relevant procurement documents to help you manage the implementation of EIB-financed projects.
- Procurement plan
- Covenant of integrity (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Environnemental and social covenant (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Instructions for EIB promoters on how to complete standard procurement notices
- Prior information notice for publication (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Contract notice for publication (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Annex I of prior information notice and contract notice for publication (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Award notice (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Annex A of award notice (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- Modification notice (EN, FR, ES, PT)
- June 2025 - Procurement planning (EN).
- May 2025 - General principles on project procurement (EN).
- April 2025 - Evaluation criteria (EN).
- February 2025 - Contract management in projects financed by the EIB (FR). Watch the video recording.
- July 2024 - Tender evaluation reports – EIB requirements and best practices (EN). Watch the video recording
- March 2024 - Contract management in projects financed by the EIB (EN). Watch the video recording
- February 2024 - Procurement policy for EIB-financed projects (FR).
- January 2024 - Tender documents requirements as per EIB Guide to Procurement (EN). Watch the video recording
- June 2023 - Procurement in projects financed by the EIB (EN). Watch the video recording