EU & UK Public Procurement Contract Award Signal Scraper (No Cookies)

Extract verified, high-intent B2B public sector contract award buying signals across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria (aperture/eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper) with zero cookies, zero browser overhead, and an industry-first Strict Named-Contact Pay-Per-Event Guarantee.

Built by Aperture — Data Aggregation Solutions for outbound sales agencies, enterprise RevOps teams, government contractor intelligence pipelines, Clay / HeyReach / n8n workflows, and AI SDR agents (Apify MCP Server & Skyfire).

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Why GTM & RevOps Teams Switch to Aperture

Feature / Capability	Standard Procurement Scrapers	Aperture EU & UK Procurement Award Signal Scraper
Pricing Fairness	Charges full enriched rates for generic info@ addresses, buyer emails, or unverified mailboxes.	Strict Named-Contact PPE Guarantee: $0.008 is billed strictly when a verified named individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status: "ok") is delivered. Generic corporate role inboxes (info@, contact@, tenders@, sales@, planning@) are included 100% free as "role_fallback" at the basic $0.002 rate.
Scheduled Monitoring	Re-scrapes, re-emits, and re-bills identical contract awards every week, flooding CRMs with duplicate leads.	Cross-Run Delta Mode (onlyNewSignals: true): Persists seen notice URLs and supplier award keys in the named buying-signal-dedup-store Key-Value Store. Skips previously emitted contract awards before enrichment or Actor.charge() fires — duplicate awards cost $0.00.
Multi-Jurisdiction Open Data APIs	Brittle HTML web scrapers that break on UI changes, CAPTCHAs, or Cloudflare bot blocks.	3 Official Open-Data APIs: Ingests structured JSON/OCDS feeds directly from UK Find a Tender & Contracts Finder OCDS, France BOAMP v2.1 Open Data API, and EU TED Search API v3 across 6 countries (UK, FR, DE, NL, BE, AT) with zero cookies, zero proxies required, and sub-30-second execution.
Filter Precision & Budget Controls	Inflexible keyword search only; cannot filter by contract award size or publication recency.	minContractValue + postedWithinDays (1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 30 | 365) + searchUrls + countries: Filter public contract awards by minimum value threshold (EUR / GBP), publication age, target jurisdiction, or direct open-data API queries. Contracts below minContractValue are skipped at $0.00.
Zero-Cost Bonus Metadata	Emits only the public notice headline and raw tender portal URL.	salary_band (Award Value), contact_phone, and contract_type: "Public Tender Award": Formats monetary contract award values (e.g. "£5,242,203 GBP" / "€382,000 EUR"), extracts direct contractor phone numbers, and normalizes tender types at $0.00 extra compute cost.
Winning Contractor Entity Resolution	Emits useless government portal URLs (contractsfinder.service.gov.uk, ted.europa.eu) or contracting authority buyer emails.	4-Tier Winning Supplier Domain Waterfall + Statutory European Legal Disclosure Crawler: Resolves the authentic corporate root domain of the winning supplier, crawls statutory /impressum, /mentions-legales, /kontakt, and /contact pages, and decodes obfuscated emails with DNS/DoH MX fingerprinting.

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5-Actor Global B2B Buying-Signal Suite (aperture) (MCP-Ready)

Strict Named-Contact Enriched Guarantee: Across the entire Aperture suite, the enriched PPE tier ($0.008 / $0.009) is billed strictly when a verified named individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status: "ok") is extracted. Generic or departmental role inboxes (info@, hello@, contact@, tenders@, sales@, planning@, jobs@, karriere@) are never discarded — they remain populated in contact_email for free with email_verification_status: "role_fallback" and automatically downgrade billing to the basic tier ($0.002 / $0.003).

Combine our regional zero-cookie signal scrapers with our zero-proxy ICP scoring engine to run a unified 8-country multi-market outbound pipeline across 3 buying-signal dimensions (jobs, funding, contract_award -> multi_signal) in Europe (DE, AT, BE, NL, FR, UK) and APAC (AU, NZ):

Actor	Markets (geo)	Signal Types	Primary Sources	PPE Pricing (Basic / Enriched)
aperture/stepstone-dach-buying-signal-scraper	DE, AT, BE, NL	jobs	Stepstone Germany, Austria, Belgium & the Netherlands + statutory /impressum & /over-ons emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/seek-anz-buying-signal-scraper	AU, NZ	jobs	Seek Australia & New Zealand JSON/GraphQL + ANZ corporate /contact & /privacy emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/france-buying-signal-scraper	FR	jobs, funding	France Travail B2B Hiring + Maddyness Startup Funding Rounds + /mentions-legales emails	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper (This Actor)	UK, FR, DE, NL, BE, AT	contract_award	UK Contracts Finder & Find a Tender OCDS + France BOAMP Open Data v2.1 + EU TED Search v3	$2.00 / $8.00 per 1k
aperture/b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator	DE, AT, BE, NL, FR, UK, AU, NZ	jobs, funding, contract_award, multi_signal	Zero-proxy cross-dataset deduplicator, multi-signal ICP scorer (0–100), 28-tool tech-stack extractor, and cold outreach hook engine	$3.00 / $9.00 per 1k

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What does EU & UK Public Procurement Contract Award Signal Scraper do?

EU & UK Public Procurement Contract Award Signal Scraper is a high-speed, No Cookies / Zero Browser Overhead intent scraper that extracts real-time public sector contract award notices across Europe and the UK:

• United Kingdom (UK): Find a Tender Service (find-tender.service.gov.uk) and Contracts Finder (contractsfinder.service.gov.uk) via the official Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) API.
• France (FR): Bulletin Officiel des Annonces des Marchés Publics (boamp.fr) via the official BOAMP Open Data v2.1 API.
• European Union (DE, NL, BE, AT, FR): Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu) via the official EU TED Search API v3.

When a B2B supplier wins a major public contract, substantial budget allocation, vendor onboarding, and implementation expansion occur immediately. Winning suppliers urgently need subcontractors, software tooling, cloud infrastructure, staffing, and compliance consulting to fulfill their contractual obligations. This Actor transforms raw public tender notices into high-conviction, CRM-ready buying signals.

Key Architectural Advantages

• Official Open-Data API Feeds: Directly queries governmental REST APIs (UK OCDS, France BOAMP v2.1, EU TED v3) without fragile HTML DOM scraping, session cookies, or bot protection blockers.
• Pure HTTP/2 CheerioCrawler Architecture: Runs in ultra-lightweight 256 MB – 1,024 MB containers (512 MB default) with sub-30-second execution times.
• 4-Tier Winning Supplier Domain Waterfall: Resolves authentic contractor root domains (domain) from notice award bodies, company registration numbers, statutory disclosures, and clean corporate matching—stripping tender portal URLs (service.gov.uk, ted.europa.eu, boamp.fr).
• European Statutory Disclosure Crawler (§ 5 DDG, LCEN Art. 6-III, UK Companies Act): In enriched_with_email mode, crawls corporate /impressum, /mentions-legales, /contact, and /team pages to identify named decision-makers and telephone numbers.
• Pre-Charge Minimum Value & Blacklist Filtering: Skip sub-scale awards below minContractValue and exclude competitor domains via blacklistDomains prior to PPE billing—filtered awards cost $0.00.
• Enterprise MX Fingerprinting + BYOK Verifier Hook: Fingerprints mail servers (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Proofpoint, Mimecast) and supports Bring-Your-Own-Key verification via MillionVerifier, ZeroBounce, or Reacher.

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Data Extracted (Dataset Schema)

Every emitted item adheres to the portfolio-wide 22-field BuyingSignalRecord specification:

Field Name	Type	Description	Example
detected_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when the award signal was extracted.	"2026-11-01T02:00:00Z"
company	string	Normalized legal name of the winning supplier / contractor.	"Kainos Software Ltd"
domain	string	Verified corporate root domain of the winning supplier.	"kainos.com"
role_title	string	Normalized tender winner headline / contract title.	"Public Tender Winner: Cloud Migration & Modernisation"
seniority_band	string	Normalized decision-maker seniority band ("director", "cxo", "manager").	"director"
location	string	Delivery city, region, or public authority headquarters.	"London"
geo	string	ISO country code: UK, FR, DE, NL, BE, or AT.	"UK"
posted_date	string	ISO 8601 publication timestamp of the contract award notice.	"2026-10-31T12:34:39Z"
signal_type	string	Canonical signal type ("contract_award").	"contract_award"
signal_detail	string	Ready-to-use CRM summary with contract title, buyer, and value.	"Contract Award: Cloud Migration — Awarded by Ministry of Justice [£5,242,203 GBP]"
signal_source_actor	string	Source Actor identifier ("eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper").	"eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper"
signal_date	string	ISO publication date (YYYY-MM-DD).	"2026-10-31"
evidence_url	string	Canonical live URL to the official government contract award notice.	"https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/..."
contact_email	string	Verified named contact email or free corporate role fallback.	"brendan.mooney@kainos.com"
contact_phone	string	Direct corporate or notice contact phone number.	"+44 28 9057 1100"
salary_band	string	Formatted public contract award value and currency.	"£5,242,203 GBP"
contract_type	string	Standardized contract notice classification.	"Public Tender Award"
email_verification_status	string	Deliverability status: ok (verified named contact), role_fallback (free role inbox), mx_only, invalid, unverified, or not_requested.	"ok"
mx_provider	string	Fingerprinted mail infrastructure provider.	"Microsoft 365"
ppe_event_charged	string	Pay-Per-Event tier billed (job-signal-scraped, buying-signal-enriched, or none).	"buying-signal-enriched"
notes	string	Enrichment provenance, buyer authority name, and notice ID.	"source=UK_CF; buyer=Ministry of Justice; mx=Microsoft 365"
error	string | null	Error description if extraction failed, or null.	null

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Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing & Strict Named-Contact Guarantee

No monthly subscriptions or platform lock-in. Pay only for successful, non-duplicate contract award signals extracted:

Scraper Mode (scraperMode)	PPE Event Name	Price	What Is Included	Strict Named-Contact Billing Guarantee
basic	job-signal-scraped	$2.00 / 1,000 awards ($0.002 / item)	Normalized contract award signals (company, 4-tier domain, role_title, location, geo, signal_date, evidence_url, contact_phone, salary_band, contract_type: "Public Tender Award", buyer details in signal_detail) + pre-charge blacklistDomains, minContractValue filtering, and Delta Mode deduplication.	Billed for standard contract awards and enriched_with_email runs where only a generic role inbox (role_fallback, provided free in contact_email) or no deliverable email was found.
enriched_with_email	buying-signal-enriched	$8.00 / 1,000 verified contacts ($0.008 / item)	Everything in Basic plus Impressum / Mentions Légales / Contact page crawling, named individual prioritization, DoH/DNS MX fingerprinting, and SMTP/BYOK email verification.	You ONLY pay $0.008 when a verified NAMED individual contact (firstname.lastname@, email_verification_status === "ok") is delivered! Generic role inboxes (info@, contact@, tenders@, sales@, planning@) are kept in contact_email as role_fallback and automatically downgraded to basic pricing ($0.002).

Free-Tier Run Limits & Budget Protection

• Strict Budget Guard (ACTOR_MAX_TOTAL_CHARGE_USD): The Actor monitors Apify's ChargeResult in real time and cleanly halts crawling the moment your maximum spend limit is reached—zero unbilled overruns.
• 25-Item Free-Tier Cap: Accounts on Apify's Free Tier can test both basic and enriched_with_email modes up to 25 items per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan for high-volume jobs (up to 5,000 records per run) and automated schedules.

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Copy-Paste Recipes & Integration Workflows

1. Weekly Monday Delta Procurement Award Monitor (onlyNewSignals: true + minContractValue: 100000)

Set up a recurring Apify Task scheduled every Monday at 06:30 UTC (Cron: 30 6 * * 1). This pulls high-value contracts awarded across the UK, France, and Germany over the past 7 days and skips previously seen notices at $0.00:

{
  "countries": ["UK", "FR", "DE"],
  "keywords": ["Cloud", "Cybersecurity", "Software", "AI", "Digital"],
  "minContractValue": 100000,
  "postedWithinDays": 7,
  "onlyNewSignals": true,
  "monitorScopeName": "weekly-eu-uk-procurement-awards",
  "scraperMode": "enriched_with_email",
  "blacklistDomains": ["existing-partner.co.uk", "competitor.de"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

2. UK & EU Cloud & Infrastructure Tender Winner Enrichment

Extract winning suppliers awarded government IT, cloud hosting, and infrastructure tenders in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands with corporate domains, contact emails, and direct phone numbers:

{
  "countries": ["UK", "DE", "NL"],
  "keywords": ["Infrastructure", "Data Centre", "Migration", "DevOps"],
  "minContractValue": 250000,
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "scraperMode": "enriched_with_email",
  "maxItems": 50
}

3. 5-Actor Multi-Signal Fan-In with b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator for 100/100 ICP Scoring

Pipe this Actor's output dataset ID alongside Stepstone DACH, Seek ANZ, and France Buying Signals into aperture/b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator. When a company wins a public contract and is actively hiring commercial or technical roles, the aggregator automatically awards a 100/100 ICP score and generates a bespoke outreach hook:

{
  "datasetIds": [
    "procurement_awards_dataset_id",
    "stepstone_dach_dataset_id",
    "france_signals_dataset_id"
  ],
  "icpConfig": {
    "allowedGeos": ["UK", "FR", "DE", "NL", "BE", "AT", "AU", "NZ"],
    "allowedSignalTypes": ["contract_award", "jobs", "funding", "multi_signal"],
    "minIcpScore": 60,
    "maxSignalAgeDays": 30
  },
  "maxItems": 250
}

Aggregator Outreach Hook Generated:

"Congratulations to Kainos Software Ltd on the recent public contract award for Cloud Migration & Modernisation [£5,242,203 GBP]! Noticing this momentum while actively scaling team capacity in London (stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform), are you evaluating technology solutions to support delivery?"

4. Claude Desktop, Cursor & Antigravity MCP Server Configuration

Connect @apify/actors-mcp-server to Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) or Cursor / Google Antigravity (.cursor/mcp.json or .agents/mcp_config.json) to discover public contract award signals on demand:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
        "--actors",
        "aperture/eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper,aperture/b2b-buying-signal-icp-aggregator"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
countries	array	["UK", "FR", "DE"]	Target procurement jurisdictions: ["UK", "FR", "DE", "NL", "BE", "AT"].
keywords	array	[]	Contract scope or technology filter keywords (e.g., ["Cloud", "Cyber", "Consulting"]).
searchUrls	array	[]	Optional direct UK OCDS, France BOAMP, or EU TED search API URLs.
postedWithinDays	integer	30	Filter contract award notices published within the last N days (1–365).
minContractValue	integer	0	Minimum contract award value threshold in EUR/GBP. Notices below this are skipped at $0.00.
onlyNewSignals	boolean	false	Cross-Run Delta Mode: Skips previously emitted contract awards stored in buying-signal-dedup-store at $0.00 cost.
monitorScopeName	string	"buying-signal-dedup-store"	Named Apify Key-Value Store used to persist seen keys across scheduled runs.
scraperMode	string	"basic"	"basic" ($2.00 / 1k) or "enriched_with_email" ($8.00 / 1k verified named contact).
blacklistDomains	array	[]	Supplier root domains or company names excluded before PPE billing fires ($0.00 spend).
customEmailVerifierApiKey	string	""	BYOK verification token: MillionVerifier (mv:<KEY>), ZeroBounce (zb:<KEY>), or Reacher (reacher:<URL>|<SECRET>).
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum contract award signals to emit per run (1–5000; capped at 25 on Free-Tier).
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional Crawlee proxy options for corporate website crawls during enriched runs.

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Sample Output

[
  {
    "detected_at": "2026-11-01T02:00:00Z",
    "company": "Kainos Software Ltd",
    "domain": "kainos.com",
    "role_title": "Public Tender Winner: Cloud Modernisation & Digital Services",
    "seniority_band": "director",
    "location": "London",
    "geo": "UK",
    "posted_date": "2026-10-31T12:34:39Z",
    "signal_type": "contract_award",
    "signal_detail": "Contract Award: Cloud Modernisation & Digital Services — Awarded by Ministry of Justice [£5,242,203 GBP]",
    "signal_source_actor": "eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper",
    "signal_date": "2026-10-31",
    "evidence_url": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/240e3451-d90e-4f1a-88bc-316d48ffbce4",
    "contact_email": "brendan.mooney@kainos.com",
    "contact_phone": "+44 28 9057 1100",
    "salary_band": "£5,242,203 GBP",
    "contract_type": "Public Tender Award",
    "email_verification_status": "ok",
    "mx_provider": "Microsoft 365",
    "ppe_event_charged": "buying-signal-enriched",
    "notes": "source=UK_CF; buyer=Ministry of Justice; verify=smtp_250_ok; mx=Microsoft 365",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "detected_at": "2026-11-01T02:01:15Z",
    "company": "Sopra Steria SAS",
    "domain": "soprasteria.com",
    "role_title": "Public Tender Winner: Prestations d'Assistance à Maîtrise d'Ouvrage",
    "seniority_band": "director",
    "location": "Paris",
    "geo": "FR",
    "posted_date": "2026-10-30T16:00:00Z",
    "signal_type": "contract_award",
    "signal_detail": "Contract Award: Prestations d'Assistance à Maîtrise d'Ouvrage — Awarded by Ministère des Armées [€1,450,000 EUR]",
    "signal_source_actor": "eu-uk-procurement-award-signal-scraper",
    "signal_date": "2026-10-30",
    "evidence_url": "https://www.boamp.fr/pages/avis/?q=idweb:26-124500",
    "contact_email": "contact@soprasteria.com",
    "contact_phone": "+33 1 40 67 29 29",
    "salary_band": "€1,450,000 EUR",
    "contract_type": "Public Tender Award",
    "email_verification_status": "role_fallback",
    "mx_provider": "Microsoft 365",
    "ppe_event_charged": "job-signal-scraped",
    "notes": "source=BOAMP; buyer=Ministère des Armées; verify=mx_fingerprinted_mentions_legales; mx=Microsoft 365",
    "error": null
  }
]

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FAQ & Legal / Compliance Disclosures

Why did an item with a valid contact_email charge job-signal-scraped ($0.002) instead of buying-signal-enriched ($0.008)?

Our Strict Named-Contact Enriched Guarantee protects your budget. We only bill the $0.008 enriched tier when we uncover a verified named individual decision-maker (firstname.lastname@, f.lastname@). When a company only publishes a departmental role inbox (info@, contact@, tenders@, sales@, planning@), we never discard that data—we include it in contact_email as a free bonus (email_verification_status: "role_fallback") and bill it at the basic $0.002 rate.

Does this Actor require logins, cookies, or browser automation?

No. All contract award discovery runs against official governmental open-data APIs (UK Find a Tender & Contracts Finder OCDS, France BOAMP Open Data v2.1, EU TED Search v3). All requests are stateless, unauthenticated HTTP/2 API calls that execute in seconds with zero browser overhead and zero CAPTCHAs.

Legal, Open Contracting & GDPR Compliance

This Actor extracts publicly disclosed public procurement contract award notices published pursuant to statutory open-contracting transparency laws (UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015, French Code de la Commande Publique, and EU Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU). Commercial entities bidding for and winning public contracts are public record. When processing contact details under GDPR / UK GDPR, ensure you establish legitimate interest for B2B commercial communications.

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