# EU Tender Monitor (`arched_friend/eu-tender-monitor`) Actor

Find EU public-sector tenders you can bid on. Search TED by keyword, country or CPV code and get the buyer, the value, the deadline and a link to the notice, with new tenders flagged on every run after the first.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/arched\_friend/eu-tender-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Peach O](https://apify.com/arched_friend) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 notice returneds

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?

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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.

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

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# README

## EU Tender Monitor: Find Public Contracts You Can Still Bid On

Search every tender published to TED, the EU's official public procurement journal, by what you sell, which country is buying, or CPV code. You get the buyer, the value, the deadline, the days left and a link to the notice — and on every run after the first, only what is new.

Built for companies that sell to the public sector in Europe, and for anyone who currently finds out about a tender the week it closes.

### How it works

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A["Keywords, countries<br/>or CPV codes"] --> B["TED expert query"]
    B --> C["Notices across<br/>all EU languages"]
    C --> D["One English row per notice"]
    D --> E{"Still open?"}
    E -->|deadline ahead| F["Bidable"]
    E -->|already awarded| G["Who won"]
    F --> H[("Tender feed")]
    G --> H
```

No scraping and no API key. This reads TED's own public API, so it does not break when the portal is restyled and it needs no proxy or browser.

### Built for

- **Bid and tender teams** watching their category across Europe
- **SMEs** that cannot justify a procurement-alerts subscription
- **Consultancies and agencies** selling into government
- **Competitive intelligence** reading award notices to see who wins what
- **Researchers** studying public spending

### Input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud hosting"],
  "countries": ["DEU", "NLD", "POL"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

| Setting | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `keywords` | Words in the tender title — the main search |
| `searchFullText` | Search the whole notice, not just the title |
| `countries` | ISO three-letter buyer countries, e.g. `DEU`, `FRA` |
| `cpvCodes` | EU procurement category codes, e.g. `48000000` for software |
| `noticeTypes` | `openTenders`, `awards`, `planning` |
| `lastDays` | How far back to search |
| `openOnly` | Drop awards and anything already closed |
| `minValue` / `maxValue` | Keep only contracts worth bidding on |
| `onlyNew` | Return nothing on a quiet run |
| `timeBudgetSecs` | How long a run may spend paging before returning what it has |

### Output

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "647141-2026",
  "title": "Germany – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – SIEM-MSOC tender",
  "buyer": "Hamburger Energiewerke GmbH",
  "country": "DEU",
  "category": "open-tender",
  "contractNature": "services",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "totalValue": 3079458,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-07",
  "deadline": "2026-10-09",
  "daysToDeadline": 18,
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/647141-2026",
  "changeType": "new-notice",
  "isNew": true,
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-21T18:02:44.512Z"
}
```

`daysToDeadline` is the field to sort and alert on. Anything under about 14 days is usually too late to start a serious bid.

**Two things TED does that would otherwise corrupt the data, handled here:**

- **Every notice is published in all EU languages.** Titles and buyer names arrive as a bundle of translations. Each row gets the English one, falling back to the national language rather than coming back blank.
- **Per-lot values repeat once per lot.** A twenty-lot notice sends its deadline twenty times and its country three times. Lists are deduplicated, and the deadline shown is the earliest across all lots — the one that actually constrains you.

### Turn it into a tender alert

```json
{
  "keywords": ["facilities management"],
  "countries": ["IRL", "GBR"],
  "openOnly": true,
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

Schedule it daily. The first run records what is already out there without alerting; every run after returns only tenders that published since.

### Run it as an API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arched_friend~eu-tender-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "keywords": ["cloud"],
    "countries": ["DEU"],
    "openOnly": true
  }'
```

### Pricing

You pay $0.002 for each notice returned. A run that finds nothing new costs nothing.

| Watching a category daily | Monthly cost |
| --- | --- |
| Reading TED by hand | hours every week |
| Tender alert subscriptions | €100 to €500 per month |
| This Actor | around $1.20 per month at 20 new notices a day |

### Common questions

**Why is `totalValue` sometimes null?** Because TED does not require a buyer to publish an estimate, and many do not. It is reported as null rather than guessed, and a minimum-value filter deliberately keeps those rows instead of hiding real tenders behind a missing number.

**Why do some titles start with a country name?** That is how TED writes them. Titles pass through as published rather than being reworded into something that no longer matches the source.

**Does this cover national portals too?** No. TED carries tenders above the EU thresholds plus whatever member states choose to publish there. Small local contracts often appear only on a national portal.

**Can I search by CPV instead of words?** Yes, and it is more reliable if you know your category — a CPV code means the same thing in every language, and a keyword does not.

**Do I need an API key?** No. TED is open and keyless.

### Related products

- **Federal Contract Finder** for the US side of the same pipeline
- **Company Hiring Monitor** to see which competitors are staffing up for a contract
- **Regulation Change Monitor** for the rules driving public spending
- **Website Change Monitor** to watch a national procurement portal TED does not cover

# Actor input Schema

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

Words that appear in the tender title, one per line, for example software or catering. Notices matching any of them are returned.

## `searchFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Search the full text instead of just the title. Finds far more, including a lot that only mentions your keyword in passing.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Optional. ISO three-letter codes, one per line, for example DEU, FRA, POL. Leave empty for all of Europe.

## `cpvCodes` (type: `array`):

Optional. EU Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, one per line, for example 48000000 for software. More precise than keywords when you know your category.

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Open tenders are what you can still bid on. Awards show who won. Planning notices are early warning of work not yet tendered.

## `lastDays` (type: `integer`):

How far back to search. Keep this short for a scheduled run.

## `openOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Drop awards and anything whose deadline has passed. Tenders where TED published no deadline are kept, since a missing deadline is not a closed one.

## `minValue` (type: `integer`):

Drop notices published below this value. Notices with no published value are always kept, because TED does not publish an estimate for many contracts.

## `maxValue` (type: `integer`):

Drop notices published above this value. 0 means no maximum.

## `titleExcludes` (type: `array`):

Drop notices whose title or description contains any of these, one per line.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Return nothing on a quiet run. Turn this on for a scheduled search so you only hear about tenders that published since last time.

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

The most notices to pull in one run, newest first.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

How long to wait for a single page of results before giving up on it.

## `timeBudgetSecs` (type: `integer`):

How long the run may spend paging before it returns what it has. Keeps a scheduled run predictable.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "searchFullText": false,
  "noticeTypes": [
    "openTenders"
  ],
  "lastDays": 30,
  "openOnly": true,
  "minValue": 0,
  "maxValue": 0,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxResults": 200,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 45,
  "timeBudgetSecs": 180
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `notices` (type: `string`):

One row per notice with its title, buyer, country, value, CPV codes, deadline, days left and a link, plus whether it is new since the last run.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

The query that ran, counts of open tenders, awards and planning notices, how many close within a week, and the countries covered.

# 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("arched_friend/eu-tender-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("arched_friend/eu-tender-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 arched_friend/eu-tender-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,arched_friend/eu-tender-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/CnfqOG7J1eHM76SWm/builds/c05m8ga7L4tIkiRuU/openapi.json