EU & UK Public Tenders – TED, Find a Tender & Contracts Finder

One public procurement tender feed for the EU and the UK. This Actor collects open tenders (calls for competition) from the official open APIs of TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), UK Find a Tender and UK Contracts Finder, normalizes them into one clean schema and lets you filter by keyword, buyer country, CPV code, publication date and minimum value.

No login, no API keys, no browser, no paywalled content – only anonymous, official open-data endpoints (TED Search API v3, and the OCDS JSON APIs of Find a Tender and Contracts Finder).

What you get

One dataset item per tender:

Field	Description
title	Tender title (English where available, otherwise the original language)
buyer	Contracting authority / buyer name
country	Buyer country, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (e.g. DEU, FRA, GBR)
cpv	List of CPV codes of the tender
value, currency	Estimated value and its currency as published (null when not stated)
deadline	Tender submission deadline (YYYY-MM-DD, null when not stated)
publishedAt	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
url	Link to the official notice
source	ted, findatender or contractsfinder
noticeType	TED notice type (e.g. cn-standard) or UK procedure (e.g. Open procedure)
id	Notice ID on the source portal

Example output

{
  "title": "Backup & Recovery Solution",
  "buyer": "University of Dundee",
  "country": "GBR",
  "cpv": ["72322000"],
  "value": 317000.0,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "deadline": "2026-10-26",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-21",
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/089342-2026",
  "source": "findatender",
  "noticeType": "Open procedure",
  "id": "089342-2026"
}

Input

Field	Description
sources	ted, findatender, contractsfinder (default: all)
keywords	Match any keyword/phrase (default: software). Uses TED full-text search; for UK sources matches title, description and buyer
countries	Buyer countries as ISO codes (DE, FR, DEU, GB…). UK sources only run when GB is included; if only UK codes are given TED is skipped
cpvCodes	CPV codes or prefixes, e.g. 72000000 or 72
publishedWithinDays	Only tenders published in the last N days (default 30)
onlyOpen	Drop tenders whose deadline has passed (default true)
minValue	Minimum estimated value, compared in the notice's own currency
maxItems	Maximum number of tenders to save (default 100)

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud"],
  "countries": ["DE", "FR", "GB"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 14,
  "minValue": 100000,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you are charged per tender saved to the dataset. Set maxItems to cap spend; the Actor also stops as soon as your Apify spending limit is reached.

Notes and limitations

• Contract notices only. On TED the Actor returns calls for competition (cn-standard, cn-social, cn-desg, pin-cfc-standard, pin-cfc-social); contract award notices are excluded. The UK sources return notices in the tender stage.
• No currency conversion. minValue is compared with the value in its original currency (EUR, GBP, PLN, …). Tenders without a published estimated value are excluded when minValue is set.
• TED keyword search is full-text over the notice, so it can be broader than a title match; UK sources match on title, description and buyer.
• Multiple lots: deadline is the earliest upcoming lot deadline, and value is the procedure-level estimate.
• Results are interleaved across the selected sources. The UK APIs are sometimes slow, so runs that scan many pages can take a few minutes.
• Data comes from official open-data APIs published under their respective open licences (TED: EU open data; UK: Open Government Licence v3.0). Always verify details on the official notice before bidding.