Government Tenders API: SAM.gov, EU TED and UK Find a Tender procurement monitor

Search and monitor government tenders from the three largest Western public procurement systems through one Actor: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's official journal for public contracts), SAM.gov (US federal contract opportunities) and Find a Tender (the UK's official service for public sector contracts). Results come back in one unified JSON schema, filterable by keyword, CPV or NAICS code, buyer country and publication window.

All three sources are official government open-data APIs. Nothing is scraped from HTML, so results are complete, stable and legally clean.

Who this is for

• Bid and proposal teams tracking every relevant tender in their sector without checking three portals daily
• Consultancies and agencies watching for opportunities matching their services
• Sales teams using public procurement as buying signals (an agency tendering for "cloud migration" is about to spend money on cloud migration)
• Analysts and journalists studying public spending
• AI agents: ask an agent "any new EU tenders for cybersecurity services this week over 1M EUR?" and it can call this Actor via Apify's MCP server

Input

{
    "includeTed": true,
    "includeSam": true,
    "includeUk": true,
    "keywords": ["cloud", "cybersecurity"],
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
    "naicsCodes": ["541511"],
    "countries": ["DEU", "FRA"],
    "daysBack": 7,
    "maxItemsPerSource": 200,
    "monitorMode": false
}

All filters are optional. CPV codes filter the EU and UK sides (e.g. 72000000 for IT services, 45000000 for construction), NAICS codes filter the US side (e.g. 541511 for custom programming). TED and Find a Tender need no key. SAM.gov needs a free API key (sam.gov, sign in, Account Details, API Key) in the samApiKey field, unless the Actor is configured with a built-in one.

Power users can pass customTedQuery in TED expert-query syntax; it's ANDed to the generated query.

Output

One row per tender, same shape for every source:

{
    "id": "ted:497810-2026",
    "source": "ted",
    "noticeNumber": "497810-2026",
    "title": "IT infrastructure modernisation services",
    "buyer": "Finansu ministrija",
    "country": "LVA",
    "publishedAt": "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "deadline": "2026-08-25",
    "codes": ["72262000"],
    "codeSystem": "cpv",
    "noticeType": "cn-standard",
    "category": "services",
    "estimatedValue": 2400000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/497810-2026"
}

Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read the dataset through the Apify API.

Monitor mode: only new tenders

Turn on monitorMode and the Actor remembers what it has seen and outputs only tenders that are new since the previous run (rows get changeType: "new"). Put it on a daily Schedule and wire the dataset to Slack or email through Apify integrations, and you have a tender alert service for exactly your sector and countries. You pay only for new tenders, and a temporary source outage never causes duplicates or gaps.

Use from AI agents

This Actor works out of the box with AI agents through Apify's MCP server. Agents can search tenders on demand or check a monitor for new ones, then reason over titles, buyers, deadlines and values directly.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. TED, SAM.gov and Find a Tender are official government open-data services published precisely so the public can access procurement information.

Why do I need a key for SAM.gov but not the others? That's how the services work: TED and Find a Tender expose open APIs, SAM.gov requires a free registered key with per-key rate limits.

Which notice types are included? All types the sources return for the period, including contract notices, awards and modifications. Use keywords, codes or customTedQuery to narrow down.

Support

If something breaks or you want another procurement source added (UN Global Marketplace, national portals), open an issue on the Issues tab. I check most days and usually reply within a day or two.