# TED EU Tender Search - European Public Procurement (`captainhandsome/ted-eu-tender-search`) Actor

Search official EU TED procurement notices by keywords, buyer, country, CPV code, and publication date. Export buyers, deadlines, values, classifications, descriptions, and source documents.

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

## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## TED EU Tender Search - European Public Procurement

Search published procurement notices from Tenders Electronic Daily, the official EU public-procurement portal. Filter by opportunity keywords, contracting authority, buyer country, CPV classification, or publication date and export buyers, deadlines, estimated values, descriptions, and official document links.

No API key, login, browser automation, or website scraping is required.

### What data can I extract?

- Official TED publication number, notice title, lot titles, and descriptions
- Contracting authority names, countries, cities, postal codes, websites, and emails
- Publication and tender deadline dates
- Main and additional CPV classification codes
- Countries and cities where the contract will be performed
- Estimated procedure and lot values with currencies
- Notice, procedure, contract-nature, legal-basis, and language codes
- Direct TED detail, XML, PDF, and HTML links

Each dataset row represents one published TED notice.

### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": "software",
  "buyer_country": "DEU",
  "publication_date_from": "2026-09-01",
  "language": "eng",
  "sort_direction": "desc",
  "max_items": 10
}
```

Country codes use ISO alpha-3 form and CPV codes contain eight digits. At least one search filter is required.

### Output example

```json
{
  "publication_number": "630118-2026",
  "title": "Poland - Security software package - EDR and SOC systems",
  "lot_titles": "EDR system | Managed SOC and SIEM service",
  "buyer_names": "Szpital Wojewodzki w Poznaniu",
  "buyer_countries": "POL",
  "publication_date": "2026-09-14",
  "cpv_codes": "48730000",
  "estimated_value": 400000.0,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "notice_type": "can-standard",
  "procedure_type": "open",
  "notice_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/630118-2026",
  "total_matches": 1752,
  "timed_out": false
}
```

### Common use cases

- European sales and bid-opportunity discovery
- Government-contract lead generation
- Procurement deadline and buyer monitoring
- CPV category and country market analysis
- Competitive intelligence and tender newsletters
- AI-assisted bid qualification and summarization

### Use with AI agents and MCP

The Actor turns TED's expert-search response into stable, flat records. An agent can discover current tenders, filter them by market and CPV category, summarize requirements, rank deadlines, or route official documents to a downstream bid workflow.

### Pricing and cost control

Output is billed per result at **$0.003 per result** (about $3.00 per 1,000 results), plus a $0.0005 Actor-start charge billed once per gigabyte of memory at run start. Use `max_items` to cap both output volume and charges. The price shown on the Apify Store listing is authoritative.

### Reliability

The Actor calls TED's official unauthenticated Search API, retries temporary failures, rejects malformed and timed-out searches, limits each page to the documented maximum, and emits the same 33 fields for every notice. It never silently treats a partial timeout as complete data.

### Limitations and responsible use

- TED controls source completeness, translations, corrections, and publication timing.
- Many fields are optional and vary by notice form and procurement stage.
- Estimated values are not final contract awards unless the source notice says so.
- CPV and country filters use official codes; invalid codes are rejected by TED.
- A search result is not a recommendation to bid. Confirm requirements and deadlines in the linked official notice.

### Turn this into a procurement monitor

1. Save one focused Task per CPV category, buyer, country, or market segment.
2. Schedule the Task daily or weekly so new notices enter a predictable review cadence.
3. Add an `ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED` Task webhook or integration and pass `resource.defaultDatasetId` into a CRM, bid-triage, notification, or downstream analysis workflow.

Related fleet tools: [Grants.gov Opportunity Search](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/grants-gov-opportunity-search) covers US funding opportunities, [USAspending Federal Awards](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/usaspending-federal-awards) shows completed US federal awards, and [Google News Search](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/google-news-search) tracks buyers and competitors.

### FAQ

#### What is TED?

Tenders Electronic Daily is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union dedicated to public procurement.

#### Do I need a TED API key?

No. TED's published-notice Search API is openly accessible without authentication.

#### Which country code format should I use?

Use a three-letter ISO code such as `DEU`, `FRA`, `POL`, `ESP`, or `ITA`.

#### Can I search by procurement category?

Yes. Enter the eight-digit Common Procurement Vocabulary code in `cpv_code`.

#### Why are some values or deadlines empty?

Different notice types publish different fields, and a notice can contain values or deadlines only at lot level.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Words or phrase to match in TED notice titles.

## `buyer_name` (type: `string`):

Text to match in contracting authority names.

## `buyer_country` (type: `string`):

ISO alpha-3 buyer country code, for example DEU, FRA, POL, or ESP.

## `cpv_code` (type: `string`):

Eight-digit Common Procurement Vocabulary code.

## `publication_date_from` (type: `string`):

Earliest TED publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `publication_date_to` (type: `string`):

Latest TED publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `language` (type: `string`):

TED three-letter language code used for multilingual text and document links.

## `sort_direction` (type: `string`):

Sort newest or oldest publication date first.

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

Hard limit on tender notices saved to the dataset.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "software",
  "language": "eng",
  "sort_direction": "desc",
  "max_items": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One flat row per published TED procurement 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 = {
    "keywords": "software"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("captainhandsome/ted-eu-tender-search").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("captainhandsome/ted-eu-tender-search").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 captainhandsome/ted-eu-tender-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,captainhandsome/ted-eu-tender-search"
        }
    }
}
```

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/bPM5DTJddLK8eHH2B/builds/2jqhDms16T0Ni0GK1/openapi.json