TED Tenders API: EU public procurement search and tender alerts with English titles, deadlines, EUR values and winners

Search every public tender published in the EU's official journal (TED, Tenders Electronic Daily) by keyword, CPV sector code, country or region, value and deadline. Each notice becomes one clean row:

• English title (TED's translation) plus the original title and language
• Buyer: name, country, city, type and website
• Deadline for tenders or requests to participate, with days left and an open/closed flag
• Estimated value and awarded value, converted to EUR with ECB reference rates
• Winners of contract awards (company names, country, size, registration number)
• Lots with title, value, deadline and duration
• Description, CPV codes, NUTS regions, procedure type, and links to the notice, PDF, XML and the e-tendering platform

Turn on Only new notices and schedule a daily run to get your own tender alert for a fraction of the price of tender-alert subscriptions.

It uses the official TED Search API (v3), so there is no scraping, no browser, no blocking and no proxy cost. Free while in launch; planned pay-per-event price: $2.50 per 1,000 notices.

What can I use it for?

• Tender alerts for your sales team. Get new calls for tenders in your sector and countries every morning, for example IT services (CPV 72) in Bulgaria and Romania, or medical equipment (CPV 33) above €500,000 anywhere in the EU.
• Competitor and market analysis. Pull contract award notices to see who wins which contracts, at what price, from which buyers.
• Bid pipeline planning. Prior information notices (planning) show what buyers intend to buy months in advance.
• CRM and BI feeds. Send clean JSON or CSV to your CRM, Google Sheets, Airtable or data warehouse through Apify integrations or the API.
• Research and journalism. Analyse public spending by sector, region, procedure type or buyer.

What data does it return?

Field	Example
publicationNumber, noticeUrl, pdfUrl, xmlUrl	681004-2026, links to ted.europa.eu
noticeType, noticeTypeLabel, formType	can-standard, Contract award notice, result
title, mainCategory, titleOriginal, originalLanguage	Poland – Document management system – Zmiana stosu…, Document management system, …, pl
publicationDate, dispatchDate	2026-10-02
buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerCity, buyerType, buyerWebsite	Państwowy Fundusz Rehabilitacji Osób Niepełnosprawnych, POL, Warszawa
placeOfPerformanceCountries, placeOfPerformanceNuts	["POL"], ["PL911"]
cpvMain, cpvCodes	48311100
deadline, deadlineType, daysUntilDeadline, isOpen	2026-11-03T23:59:59+02:00, tenders, 31, true
estimatedValue, estimatedValueCurrency, estimatedValueEur	18815284.59, PLN, 4298180.37
awardedValue, awardedValueCurrency, awardedValueEur	13884357.4, PLN, 3171754.97
winnerNames, winners[]	["SOFTIQ Sp. z o.o."], with country, size and registration number
lots[], lotCount	lot ID, title, estimated value, deadline, duration
procedureType, contractNature, frameworkAgreement	open, supplies, false
submissionUrl, documentsUrl	Link to the e-tendering platform
description	Original-language description (contact details removed)

Example output

A call for tenders from a real run on 2026-10-03 (shortened):

{
  "publicationNumber": "681471-2026",
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/681471-2026",
  "noticeTypeLabel": "Contract notice",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "contractNature": "supplies",
  "title": "Bulgaria – Motor vehicles – PPD26-110 „Доставка на нови неупотредявани автомобили“",
  "mainCategory": "Motor vehicles",
  "originalLanguage": "bg",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-02",
  "buyerName": "Електроразпределителни мрежи Запад ЕАД",
  "buyerCountry": "BGR",
  "buyerWebsite": "https://ermzapad.bg",
  "placeOfPerformanceNuts": ["BG411"],
  "cpvMain": "34100000",
  "deadline": "2026-11-03T23:59:59+02:00",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 31,
  "isOpen": true,
  "estimatedValue": 2545000.0,
  "estimatedValueCurrency": "EUR",
  "estimatedValueEur": 2545000.0,
  "submissionUrl": "https://app.eop.bg/today/608285",
  "lotCount": 5,
  "lots": [
    {"lotId": "LOT-0001", "title": "„Доставка на нови неупотребявани високопроходими автомобили (пикап)“",
     "estimatedValue": 290000.0, "currency": "EUR", "deadline": "2026-11-03T23:59:59+02:00", "duration": "24 month"}
  ]
}

A contract award from the same day (shortened):

{
  "publicationNumber": "681004-2026",
  "noticeTypeLabel": "Contract award notice",
  "title": "Poland – Document management system – Zmiana stosu technologicznego, świadczenie usługi Asysty Technicznej…",
  "buyerName": "Państwowy Fundusz Rehabilitacji Osób Niepełnosprawnych",
  "cpvMain": "48311100",
  "estimatedValue": 18815284.59, "estimatedValueCurrency": "PLN", "estimatedValueEur": 4298180.37,
  "awardedValue": 13884357.4, "awardedValueCurrency": "PLN", "awardedValueEur": 3171754.97,
  "winners": [{"name": "SOFTIQ Sp. z o.o.", "country": "POL", "size": "medium", "identifier": "NIP 9691613588"}]
}

The Output tab has two ready-made views, Tenders and Contract awards. Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or fetch the results through the API.

How much does it cost?

Free while in launch. The actor charges no fee of its own right now; you pay only the Apify platform usage of your runs (the free Apify plan includes $5 of usage a month). The pay-per-event price below is planned and applies only once it is switched on; Apify notifies existing users before a price change takes effect.

Event	Planned price
Notice output	$0.0025 (= $2.50 per 1,000 notices)

• Notices removed by your filters, and notices already delivered in earlier runs ("Only new" mode), are not charged.
• Alert example: in our test, a daily alert for "software" or "cloud computing" calls for tenders across the whole EU matched about 160 notices per day, which at the planned price is about $0.40 a day. One country or a CPV filter usually brings that down to a few cents a day.
• Cost cap: once pricing is on, set Maximum cost per run and the actor stops cleanly when it reaches it.

For comparison (checked 2026-10-03): other TED actors on the Apify Store charge $4 per 1,000 notices, or $0.10 per record; tender-alert subscriptions such as TenderPulse, TenderMetric or Tendium cost €19–125 per month.

How to use it

1. Set your filters: keywords, CPV codes, countries, notice types, value range or "Only open tenders". All filters are optional and combined with AND. Multiple values inside one filter are combined with OR.
2. Choose the period: Published in the last N days (default 7), or exact dates.
3. Click Start. Results are sorted newest first.

Daily tender alert

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud computing"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "countries": ["BG", "RO"],
  "noticeTypes": ["competition"],
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Create a schedule (for example every weekday at 08:00) with this input and connect an integration (e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to the run's dataset. Each run returns only notices you have not received before. The 7-day window means a missed run never loses notices.

Competitor analysis: who won IT contracts above €100,000?

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "countries": ["DE", "AT", "FR", "PL"],
  "noticeTypes": ["result"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "minValueEur": 100000,
  "maxItems": 5000
}

API example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/adamhaleworks~ted-tenders-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cpvCodes": ["45"], "countries": ["BG"], "noticeTypes": ["competition"], "onlyOpen": true}'

Useful CPV codes

72 IT services · 48 software packages · 45 construction work · 33 medical equipment · 79 business services · 71 architectural and engineering services · 90 sewage, refuse and environmental services · 34 transport equipment · 30 office and computing machinery · 09 fuels and energy. A short code includes every code below it.

How it works

• Data source. The official TED Search API of the EU Publications Office. It needs no key and is intended for commercial reuse. Requests are paced at 1 per second, each returning up to about 170 notices. HTTP 429 and 5xx responses get retries with backoff.
• Search. Your filters become a TED expert query, which is shown in the log and in the SUMMARY record. Advanced users can add their own conditions in TED expert query.
• EUR values. Values in other currencies are converted with the latest ECB euro reference rates. Old BGN and HRK values use the fixed euro conversion rates.
• Only new. The publication numbers already delivered for a search are stored in a named key-value store in your account. A different search keeps a separate memory.
• Reliability. A run that is migrated or restarted continues without delivering or charging notices twice. If TED is down, notices fetched so far are kept and the run fails with a clear message.

Limitations

• TED publishes notices above the EU thresholds plus some voluntary ones. Many smaller national tenders exist only on national portals.
• TED translates titles as "Country – CPV category – original title". Descriptions and lot titles stay in the original language.
• Values are what the buyer published. Some notices have no value, or have values only per lot or per framework agreement.
• Contact persons, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are not included. Descriptions are scanned to remove e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
• Winner names: a winner can be a sole trader whose business name is a person's name. To avoid outputting personal data, a winner's name is shown only when it contains a company or organisation marker (GmbH, Sp. z o.o., ЕООД, S.A., Ltd, University and so on). Otherwise the row says "nameWithheld": true and keeps the country and size. In a test on 3,000 recent notices, 14% of winner entries were withheld; most of them were sole traders, plus some companies that publish their name without a legal form.

Is it legal?

TED notices are official EU publications. The Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU) allows reuse "for commercial or non-commercial purposes", and the TED API is offered for exactly this. This actor is not affiliated with the EU Publications Office. It outputs organisations, not people, and leaves out contact persons. You are responsible for using the data in line with the laws that apply to you.

FAQ

Why do I get fewer results than on the TED website? "Only latest notice versions" is on by default, so notices replaced by a change notice are skipped. The value filters also drop notices without a published value.

How do I search a region instead of a whole country? Use NUTS codes in Place of performance, for example BG411 (Sofia), DE21 (Upper Bavaria) or FR10 (Île-de-France).

Can I search in my own language? Yes. Full-text search covers every language version of the notice, so you can use keywords in any EU language. Set Preferred language to get titles in your language.

Something is wrong or missing? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab and include the publication number.

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Author: Adam Hale