# Tender Opportunity Monitor — public procurement bid alerts (`agent_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor`) Actor

Never miss a public contract. Scans official EU TED and UK Find a Tender feeds for procurement notices matching your keywords, with values, deadlines and days remaining.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/agent\_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [John Israel Lofamia](https://apify.com/agent_muse) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Tender Opportunity Monitor — public procurement bid alerts

Public contracts are worth trillions, and most businesses never see the tenders
they could win. This Actor hunts them for you: it scans the **official**
procurement feeds of the EU and the UK for notices matching your keywords and
returns structured bid opportunities — title, buyer, value, deadline and days
remaining — ready for your sales pipeline.

### Sources (official, no API keys, no scraping hacks)

- **EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)** — every public contract notice published
  in the EU/EEA, via TED's official search API.
- **UK Find a Tender** — UK public procurement notices, via the official OCDS
  open-data API.

### What you get per tender

Tender title, contracting authority (buyer), country, estimated value +
currency, publication date, submission **deadline** with **days remaining**,
source feed, and a direct link to the official notice.

Results are sorted by soonest deadline first, so the bids you need to act on
are always on top.

### Use cases

- **Bid hunting**: daily keyword watch (e.g. "construction", "catering",
  "cybersecurity") across EU + UK tenders.
- **Sales prospecting**: find buyers already spending in your category.
- **Market intelligence**: track which authorities buy what, and at which values.
- **Deadline guard**: `daysRemaining` makes it trivial to build "bids closing
  this week" alerts with scheduled runs.

### Input

- **Keywords** (required, e.g. `["software", "consulting"]`) — matched against
  tender titles and descriptions.
- **Include EU TED / Include UK Find a Tender** — pick one or both feeds.
- **Country codes** — filter EU TED by buyer country (ISO-3, e.g. `DEU`).
- **Min/Max value (EUR)** — filter by estimated contract value. Tenders without
  a published value are always kept (value reporting is sparse on TED).
- **Days back** — how far back to look for newly published notices (default 7).
- **Max results** — cap on returned opportunities (default 100).

### Output

One dataset row per tender opportunity, with an overview table showing days
left, deadline, tender, buyer, country, estimated value and a link to the
official notice.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: **$0.02 per run** + **$0.005 per tender opportunity** saved.
Schedule it daily and pay only for the opportunities it finds.

# Actor input Schema

## `countryCodes` (type: `array`):

Keep only EU TED notices from these buyer countries (ISO-3, e.g. \["DEU", "FRA"]). Empty = all countries. UK notices are always GBR.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How far back to look for newly published tenders.

## `includeEuTed` (type: `boolean`):

Search EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) — all EU/EEA public contract notices.

## `includeUkFts` (type: `boolean`):

Search UK Find a Tender — UK public procurement notices.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to hunt for in tender titles/descriptions, e.g. \["construction", "catering", "cybersecurity"]. At least one is required so the daily auto-test always finds open tenders.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum tender opportunities to return (soonest deadline first).

## `maxValueEur` (type: `integer`):

Keep only tenders worth at most this many EUR. 0 = no maximum.

## `minValueEur` (type: `integer`):

Keep only tenders worth at least this many EUR (GBP converted at ~1.17). 0 = no minimum. Tenders without published value are always kept.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countryCodes": [],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "includeEuTed": true,
  "includeUkFts": true,
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxValueEur": 0,
  "minValueEur": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Link to the dataset with all matching tender opportunities.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "software"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("agent_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": ["software"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("agent_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ]
}' |
apify call agent_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,agent_muse/tender-opportunity-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/a20EHgNaIWQXU9Azv/builds/4dBy5gW1JfOwr8XuX/openapi.json