# TED Tender Monitor — EU public tenders by trade (`bitme/ted-tender-monitor`) Actor

Monitor EU public procurement (TED) by CPV code, country and keywords. Built for trades and SMEs: schedule it with onlyNew and get only fresh matching tenders — an automatic tender radar via the official TED API, no scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bitme/ted-tender-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Yo45ure](https://apify.com/bitme) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## TED Tender Monitor — EU public tenders by trade

Find and monitor **EU public procurement notices** (TED — Tenders Electronic Daily)
filtered by **CPV code, country and keywords**. Built for trades and SMEs who should be
bidding on public contracts but don't have time to watch the portals.

Public buyers — municipalities, states, federal agencies — publish thousands of
contracts every week: metalwork, construction, machining, IT, services. The businesses
that win them are usually just the ones that *saw them in time*.

### What it does

- Queries the **official TED API** (no scraping, no login, stable)
- Filters by **CPV codes** (e.g. `45262670` metalworking, `42600000` machine tools),
  **countries** (`DEU`, `AUT`, `NLD`, …) and optional **keywords** (e.g. `Laserschneiden`,
  `CNC`)
- Returns clean structured data: title, buyer, deadline, publication date, CPV, direct
  TED link + German PDF link
- **Monitoring mode** (`onlyNew`): run it on a schedule and each run emits *only tenders
  you haven't seen before* — connect the dataset to email/Slack/Sheets via any Apify
  integration and you have an automatic tender radar

### Example: German metalworking, last 14 days

```json
{
  "cpvCodes": ["45262670", "44316000", "42600000"],
  "countries": ["DEU"],
  "keywords": [],
  "publishedSinceDays": 14,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

Typical output item:

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "547814-2026",
  "title": "Deutschland – Bauarbeiten – Feuerwehrtechnische Zentrale …",
  "buyer": "Landkreis Göttingen",
  "deadline": "2026-08-17T23:59:59+02:00",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-07+02:00",
  "cpv": ["45216121"],
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/547814-2026",
  "pdfDe": "https://ted.europa.eu/de/notice/547814-2026/pdf"
}
```

### Finding your CPV codes

Search your trade at [ted.europa.eu](https://ted.europa.eu) once, open a matching
notice, and copy its CPV codes into the input. Common starting points:

| trade | CPV |
|---|---|
| Metalwork / Metallbau | 45262670, 44316000 |
| Machine tools / CNC | 42600000 |
| Electrical installation | 45310000 |
| IT services | 72000000 |
| Cleaning | 90910000 |

### Scheduling a tender radar

1. Set `onlyNew: true`
2. Create a Schedule (e.g. daily 07:00)
3. Add an integration on the dataset (email, Slack, Google Sheets, webhook)

New matching tenders land in your inbox; silence means nothing new — not a broken run.

# Actor input Schema

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes to match, e.g. 45262670 (metalwork), 42600000 (machine tools). Prefix families work via TED's hierarchy.

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

Place-of-performance country codes, e.g. DEU, AUT, NLD.

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

Case-insensitive substrings matched against title and description AFTER the CPV/country filter, e.g. Laserschneiden, CNC.

## `publishedSinceDays` (type: `integer`):

How far back to search.

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

Deduplicate against previous runs — turn on when running on a schedule, so each run emits only fresh tenders.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap on results per run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cpvCodes": [
    "45262670",
    "44316000",
    "42600000"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "DEU"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "publishedSinceDays": 14,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `tenders` (type: `string`):

All tenders matching the CPV/country/keyword filters, one item per notice.

# 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 = {
    "cpvCodes": [
        "45262670",
        "44316000",
        "42600000"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "DEU"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bitme/ted-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 = {
    "cpvCodes": [
        "45262670",
        "44316000",
        "42600000",
    ],
    "countries": ["DEU"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bitme/ted-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 '{
  "cpvCodes": [
    "45262670",
    "44316000",
    "42600000"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "DEU"
  ]
}' |
apify call bitme/ted-tender-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bitme/ted-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/bzZAL68iYBBjxp1QY/builds/SbVI8wcQcPVh2ILJH/openapi.json