Public Tender Monitor

Public Tender Monitor collects open public-procurement notices from official free APIs and feeds. One dataset item is one notice. Filters cover keywords, CPV or category text, country, publication age, and whether the deadline is still open.

Missing fields stay null. The actor does not fill in a value, currency, buyer, or deadline that the source did not publish.

Sources

Checked on 2026-10-20 with keywords server, network, software, cctv, and IT, openOnly true, publishedWithinDays 30, and maxItems 20. sam_gov was not selected.

Source	What it calls	Status on that run
ted	POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search	Returned notices.
uk_fts	GET https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages?stages=tender	Returned notices. Pagination follows links.next.
uk_contracts_finder	GET https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Published/Notices/OCDS/Search?stages=tender	Returned notices. Pagination follows links.next.
canadabuys	CanadaBuys open-tender CSV openTenderNotice-ouvertAvisAppelOffres.csv	Returned notices. The CSV has no value or currency column, so those fields are null.
sam_gov	GET https://api.sam.gov/opportunities/v2/search	Not called. If sam_gov is selected and samGovApiKey is empty, the source is skipped with a warning and the run continues.
austender	Open ATM RSS, then the OCDS API	Experimental. The RSS feed https://www.tenders.gov.au/public_data/rss/rss.xml returned HTTP 403. The OCDS API answered HTTP 200 and only publishes contract notices (contractPublished, contractLastModified, contractStart, contractEnd). With openOnly true those contracts are not emitted, so the source returned 0 items.
ccgp	Plain GET of https://search.ccgp.gov.cn/bxsearch	Returned notices from the public HTML search. If that page is blocked or shows a captcha, the source logs not reachable / blocked and returns 0. There is no captcha bypass.

A failure in one source is logged. The other sources still run.

Requests send User-Agent: public-tender-monitor/0.1 (Apify Actor), time out after 60 seconds, wait at least 1.5 seconds between pages of the same source, and retry at most twice on HTTP 429 or 5xx.

Input

{
  "sources": ["ted", "uk_fts", "uk_contracts_finder", "canadabuys", "austender", "ccgp"],
  "keywords": ["server", "network", "software", "cctv", "IT"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "countries": ["DEU", "FRA", "GBR"],
  "openOnly": true,
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "samGovApiKey": ""
}

sources defaults to ted, uk_fts, uk_contracts_finder, and canadabuys.

keywords are matched against the title and description, case-insensitive. Any keyword is enough. The match is a substring, so a short keyword such as IT also matches words that contain those letters.

cpvCodes match CPV codes on TED and the UK sources, including a prefix such as 72. On other sources the same strings are matched against the published category text or codes.

countries are ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes. TED filters on the buyer country. An empty list keeps every country.

openOnly defaults to true. A notice whose deadline is already past is dropped. A notice with no deadline is kept.

publishedWithinDays defaults to 30. A notice with no published date is dropped, because the window cannot be checked.

maxItems defaults to 100. That number is also the cap for each source. Matching notices are then interleaved across sources until the global cap is reached, so one busy source does not take every row.

samGovApiKey is optional and secret. It is used only for sam_gov.

Output

Fields: title, buyer, country, category, value, currency, publishedDate, deadline, url, noticeId, source, description, fetchedAt.

description is at most 1000 characters. value is a number or null.

This item is from the 2026-10-20 local run (storage/datasets/default/000000001.json):

{
  "title": "Norway – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – 26182 Case handling system",
  "buyer": "Innkjøpskontoret AS, Nordre Follo kommune",
  "country": "NOR",
  "category": "72000000 48000000",
  "value": null,
  "currency": null,
  "publishedDate": "2026-09-21",
  "deadline": "2026-10-27T00:00:00",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/646367-2026",
  "noticeId": "646367-2026",
  "source": "ted",
  "description": "The competition is for the delivery of a cloud system for general case handling. The procurement ́s value is estimated to: above the EEA threshold. The volume is an estimate and is not binding for the contracting authority. See the procurement documents for further information. The contracting authority reserves the right to cancel the competition, i.a. in connection with budgetary coverage. This procurement is considered to have an immaterial impact on climate and the environment, cf. the Public Procurement Act § 5b third paragraph. The justification for this is that the procurement concerns the procurement of a digital system, where the procurement ́s nature means that the contracting authority has been cut off from affecting climate and environmental impact, as the requirements and criteria targeting these elements will not have sufficient connection to the delivery, cf. DFØ's environment supervisor. The obligation to make requirements for apprentices is considered to apply for this",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-20T02:02:34.492193+00:00"
}

value and currency are null because this TED notice did not publish a numeric estimated value in the fields that were requested. The description mentions a threshold and is cut at 1000 characters.

Pricing

Pay per result. Each notice pushed to the dataset charges one tender-item event (Actor.push_data, then Actor.charge). Set the event price in the Apify Console when you publish the Actor. This package does not set a price.

If pay-per-event pricing is not configured, the charge call is ignored and the run continues. If the charge result reports that the event limit is reached, the run stops pushing further items.

Run locally

python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt pytest
.venv/bin/python -m pytest
sh scripts/local_run.sh

scripts/local_run.sh writes a small input file under storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json, runs python -m src with APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage, and prints the dataset count per source.

Limitations

• AusTender has no open-tender feed on the official OCDS API. The current ATM RSS was HTTP 403 from this client. Contract notices are returned only when openOnly is false, and they are awarded contracts, not open approaches to market.
• CCGP is an HTML search page. A blocked or captcha response yields no items. The actor does not try to get around that.
• SAM.gov search rows often put a URL in description instead of the notice text. That URL is not copied into description. The search payload also does not include a contract value.
• Find a Tender and Contracts Finder HTML notice pages can refuse an automated client. The dataset URL is still the public notice link. The fields come from the OCDS APIs.
• Each source scans at most 30 pages of 100 notices (CCGP uses the portal page size). CanadaBuys is a single CSV.
• A TED notice with several lot deadlines keeps the latest published lot deadline. The value is the procedure estimate when TED publishes one, otherwise the first lot estimate. Lot values are not added together.
• A date-only deadline remains open through the end of that UTC date. A clock time with no timezone is compared as UTC. TED dates published as YYYY-MM-DD+HH:MM with no clock time are stored as the calendar date.
• Country on UK notices is GBR. CanadaBuys is CAN, SAM.gov defaults to USA, AusTender is AUS, and CCGP is CHN. TED uses the published buyer-country codes.
• The run is a snapshot of what those services returned. It is not legal advice and it is not a complete archive of every notice.