Baltic Public Procurement: Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia Tenders and Awards

Find Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia tenders, public procurement contract notices and contract awards in one normalised dataset. This Actor combines IUB Latvia open data, Estonia's Riigihanked / Riigihangete register (RHR) open-data API and Tenders Electronic Daily (TED). Filter by country, publication date and CPV codes for construction, IT, supplies and services.

Use it for tender monitoring, bid planning, procurement analytics, sales opportunity research and public-spending analysis. Export complete records to JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect your Apify dataset to Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent.

Unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by IUB, Riigi Tugiteenuste Keskus, the Publications Office of the EU or TED. It reads published open data only. No TED or EU logo is used.

What data you get

All sources use the same fields. Missing published values are null; code lists are arrays.

Field	Meaning
country	Requested buyer country: LV, LT or EE
source	IUB, RHR open data or TED
noticeType, noticeId	contract_notice or contract_award, and source notice identifier
buyer, buyerId	Contracting organisation and its public identifier; recognised natural persons and sole traders are withheld
title, description	Procurement subject in the source language; descriptions are scrubbed for IUB/RHR and withheld for TED
cpv, nuts	Eight-digit CPV codes and NUTS region codes
estimatedValue, currency	Published estimated or awarded value; awards can fall back to an estimate when no award total is published
procedure	Published procedure type
deadline, publicationDate	Earliest lot submission deadline and ISO publication date
status	open, closed, awarded or unknown
url	Link to the notice or procurement documents
licence, licenceUrl, attribution	Source licence, terms URL, source credit and modification statement for every record

The dataset includes a tender overview table and an all-fields view. Both preserve the licensing fields when exported. Joint TED buyers are assigned the first requested country present in the notice's buyer-country list; notices without a requested buyer country are dropped. The displayed TED buyer name is the primary organisation and may be one of several joint buyers.

Sources and coverage

Country	Source	Coverage
Latvia	IUB open data, official daily JSON from open.iub.gov.lv	Contract notices and awards published in national open data, including EU notices
Estonia	Riigihanked / Riigihangete register, official monthly XML	Contract notices and awards from the RHR open-data API
Lithuania	TED Search API	Notices published in TED, mainly above EU thresholds

Lithuanian below-threshold national coverage is not included. tedCoverage: "all" adds TED for Latvia and can duplicate IUB notices; cross-source duplicates are retained with their separate source and licence. Estonian records are always obtained exclusively through https://riigihanked.riik.ee/rhr/api/public/v1/opendata/..., never by HTML scraping or a TED fallback, and keep CC BY-SA 3.0. Source availability and publication delays can affect coverage.

Input and examples

Input	Default	Behaviour
countries	["LV", "LT", "EE"]	Select Latvia, Lithuania and/or Estonia
noticeType	"open"	open = contract notices; awards = contract awards; both = both categories
daysBack	7	Inclusive publication window ending today in UTC; 1–366 days, including all intersecting months
maxItems	100	Total output cap, interleaved across sources; 0 removes the item cap
cpvCodes	[]	CPV prefixes such as 45 (construction), 30 (office equipment) or 72 (IT)
tedCoverage	"lt_only"	TED for selected Lithuania; all adds selected Latvia. Estonia stays RHR-only
tedMaxPages	150	TED pagination safety limit, 1–1000 pages; up to 250 notices per page
excludeFreeText	true	Set all descriptions to null (default). Set false for scrubbed IUB/RHR descriptions; TED descriptions are always withheld

open selects contract notices by publication date. Some have expired or missing deadlines; use status and the source notice to assess whether bids are still accepted. CPV filters match any published main or additional code. Padded codes such as 72000000 mean the hierarchy prefix 72; short division prefixes such as 30 keep their trailing zero. Multiple CPV filters are combined with OR.

Monitor recently published Baltic tenders:

{
  "countries": ["LV", "LT", "EE"],
  "noticeType": "open",
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Find construction awards across all three countries:

{
  "countries": ["LV", "LT", "EE"],
  "noticeType": "awards",
  "cpvCodes": ["45"],
  "tedCoverage": "all",
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItems": 100
}

TED uses server-side wildcard CPV filtering, for example classification-cpv = 45*, supported by the official TED search documentation. Token-based iteration avoids the 15,000-notice ceiling of page-number queries; per-request page and field limits still apply. See TED Search API modes and limits.

Run statistics and reliability

The RUN_STATS key-value-store record contains the total, UTC date range, runtime, selected countries, output-cap flag and sources.iub, sources.rhr, sources.ted. Each source reports status (ok, partial, error or disabled), fetched and output counts, HTTP requests, retries, empty responses, malformed records, dropped countries, duplicates, TED pages, limit flags and privacy-safe errors. Malformed-record examples are limited to five per source; malformedRecords counts all skipped records.

All source requests have connection and total timeouts and up to four attempts with exponential backoff, jitter and bounded Retry-After handling for 429/5xx and network errors. Malformed responses are retried; malformed individual records are skipped. Missing daily files and empty monthly files do not stop a run. A failed source does not stop other sources, and later dates/months can still be processed. An exhausted request or TED page limit is recorded explicitly, so a successful Actor exit can still contain partial coverage.

Example output

{
  "country": "EE",
  "source": "EE Riigihangete register open data",
  "noticeType": "contract_notice",
  "noticeId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
  "buyer": "Example contracting authority",
  "buyerId": null,
  "title": "Example supply procurement",
  "description": null,
  "cpv": ["31700000"],
  "nuts": ["EE001"],
  "estimatedValue": 350000,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "procedure": "open",
  "deadline": "2026-11-02 13:00",
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-30",
  "status": "open",
  "url": null,
  "licence": "CC BY-SA 3.0 (as declared on andmed.eesti.ee)",
  "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
  "attribution": "Source: Riigi Tugiteenuste Keskus, Riigihangete register (riigihanked.riik.ee open data), CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified: fields extracted and normalised by LV Data Tools; contact persons removed. This record may be freely redistributed under CC BY-SA 3.0."
}

Licensing

Every record carries its own licence, licenceUrl and attribution fields. Keep them when you reuse the data.

• Latvia (IUB): CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication) as published on data.gov.lv.
• Estonia (Riigihangete register / RHR): CC BY-SA 3.0 (as declared on andmed.eesti.ee), © Riigi Tugiteenuste Keskus. The records are Modified: fields are extracted and normalised, and contact persons are removed. Redistribution of Estonian records or derivatives must credit the source, indicate changes and stay under CC BY-SA 3.0 (or a compatible licence). You are free to redistribute the Estonian records under CC BY-SA 3.0. Nothing in this Actor or its terms restricts that right. See the CC BY-SA 3.0 terms; no additional restrictions are imposed.
• TED: procurement notices are reused under the European Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU), which permits commercial and non-commercial reuse unless otherwise noted. Source: Publications Office of the EU, ted.europa.eu. Records are modified (normalised and minimised). Website editorial content has separate CC BY 4.0 terms; third-party rights and identifiable individuals can require separate clearance. No TED or EU logo is used. See the TED legal notice.
• The Actor's price pays for the processing service, not for a licence to the data.
• The Actor's code is © LV Data Tools. Code/service terms do not limit the source data's reuse rights.

Personal data

Procurement notices may contain contact-person names, phone numbers and e-mails. This Actor never outputs contact-person Name, Telephone, ElectronicMail or contact objects. It builds records from an allowlist of procurement fields. Known contacts from IUB JSON and RHR XML are used only in memory to remove copies from output text; email addresses, phone patterns and labelled contact details are also removed. TED requests omit contact fields and descriptions. Recognised natural persons and sole traders are redacted. Logs and RUN_STATS contain no raw records, response bodies or contact values.

The retained organisation names, identifiers and subject titles are intended to describe procurement, but identifying an arbitrary natural-person name in unstructured text cannot be guaranteed. excludeFreeText is on by default and omits descriptions for additional minimisation. Estonian buyers whose registry code starts with 9 (FIE / sole traders) are withheld even when the name lacks the "FIE" token. Public availability and an open-data licence do not remove GDPR obligations.

Roles: the publisher (LV Data Tools) is controller for the Actor's own source collection and minimisation, and acts as processor for each user's run output under §5.2 of the Apify Standard Actor Contract, while the user is controller of that output and its reuse.

Privacy notice

Controller: Artyom Kutnevskiy (trading as LV Data Tools), contact lvdatatools@gmail.com. Version 0.2, 2026-10-13.

• Data concerned: public procurement notices and awards for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Output concerns procurement subjects, contracting organisations, public identifiers, CPV/NUTS codes, values and dates. Source payloads may incidentally contain contact persons, sole traders, natural-person winners or personal details in text.
• Minimisation: contact-person Name, Telephone, ElectronicMail and contact objects are never output. The Actor uses an allowlist of procurement fields, omits winner records and withholds buyers marked as natural persons (IUB) and recognised sole traders/farms. IUB/RHR contact values are used only transiently in memory to redact repeated values from retained text. Emails, international/Baltic phone patterns, labelled contact details and simple name patterns are scrubbed. TED contact fields and descriptions are not requested; its description is null. excludeFreeText (on by default) omits all descriptions. Estonian buyers with FIE registry codes (starting with 9) are withheld. Arbitrary personal names in titles, descriptions or organisation fields cannot all be recognised by patterns; any identified personal contact data must be removed.
• Sources: Iepirkumu uzraudzības birojs, Latvia (open.iub.gov.lv, daily JSON, CC0 1.0); Riigi Tugiteenuste Keskus, Estonia (Riigihanked / Riigihangete register, only https://riigihanked.riik.ee/rhr/api/public/v1/opendata/..., monthly XML, CC BY-SA 3.0 (as declared on andmed.eesti.ee)); Publications Office of the EU, TED Search API (api.ted.europa.eu, for Lithuania and optionally Latvia). No Estonian HTML is accessed and there is no TED fallback for Estonia.
• Source licensing: every record includes its licence, terms URL and attribution. EE records state Modified and may be freely redistributed under CC BY-SA 3.0, with credit, change indication and applicable ShareAlike terms. Nothing in the Actor or its service terms restricts EE redistribution. TED procurement notices follow Commission Decision 2011/833/EU and the TED legal notice; third-party/personal rights may apply separately. The Actor is unofficial and uses no TED/EU logo. An open-data licence does not waive privacy obligations.
• Roles: the publisher (LV Data Tools) is controller for the Actor's own source collection and minimisation, and acts as processor for each user's run output under §5.2 of the Apify Standard Actor Contract, while the user is controller of that output and its reuse.
• Purpose: structured access to public tenders and awards for businesses, suppliers, analysts and researchers, including bid monitoring and procurement market research. No profiling of people, personal-contact enrichment or automated decision-making about individuals is performed.
• Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, the stated legitimate interest, with minimisation and balancing described in the legitimate-interest assessment (available on request from lvdatatools@gmail.com). Users must establish the basis for their own reuse.
• Recipients: the user running the Actor and recipients they choose when exporting or sharing their dataset. Apify Technologies s.r.o. provides the hosting platform; controller/processor roles depend on the applicable service arrangements. Datasets are not automatically sent to other parties by this Actor.
• Retention: LV Data Tools keeps no separate copy of output. Source responses are processed in memory. Output datasets and RUN_STATS belong to the user's run and follow the user's Apify storage/retention settings. Diagnostics contain counters and privacy-safe error summaries, not raw notice/contact values. Users act as independent controllers of their datasets and downstream reuse.
• Transfers outside the EEA: hosting may involve transfers depending on Apify's infrastructure and the user's arrangements. Consult Apify's privacy policy and applicable data-processing terms for current details and safeguards.
• Rights: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection under Art. 21 and complaint to a supervisory authority, as applicable. Latvia: Datu valsts inspekcija (dvi.gov.lv); Estonia: Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (aki.ee); Lithuania: Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija (vdai.lrv.lt). Requests concerning the Actor go to lvdatatools@gmail.com; for a user's retained/exported dataset, contact that user as well. Requests are reviewed individually. This version has no automatic exclusion list; corrections, exclusion in a release or removal from a controlled dataset must be handled as applicable.
• Individual notification / Art. 14(5)(b) assessment (2026-10-14): the Actor retains no contact data and no separate copy of output; data subjects appear only incidentally (e.g. sole-trader names, names in titles) in notices that public authorities already published. The publisher holds no contact details for them, and identifying and contacting them would require collecting the very personal data the Actor is designed to discard, which would increase intrusion. Individual notification is therefore impossible or would involve disproportionate effort. Safeguards instead: this public notice (this README section), contact/winner exclusion, sole-trader redaction (incl. Estonian FIE registry codes), descriptions omitted by default, and individual handling of objections.

FAQ

Is this official? No. It is an independent tool built on published open data.

Can I get Lithuanian below-threshold tenders? National below-threshold coverage is not included; only notices available in TED are returned.

How fresh is it? The Actor reads source files/API responses during each run. IUB daily files and RHR monthly XML can lag the current date, and TED publication follows its working-day schedule. Check RUN_STATS and the source notice.