EU Tender Opportunities

Open EU public procurement notices with the days remaining to bid — buyer, country, CPV codes, place of performance and value.

No login. No API key. No proxies.

The countdown, and a readable title

TED publishes a submission deadline on 100 % of tender notices and never publishes how long is left. That is the only number that matters to a company deciding whether to respond.

It also returns the title in whichever language happens to be indexed first — measured 13 September 2026, a German buyer with a Hungarian title. This Actor resolves the title to English where available, falls back to the buyer country's language, and records which language it used in titleLanguage.

A real run, IT services closing soon:

Tender	Country	Days left
Sweden – IT services: consulting, software development	SWE	1
France – Technical computer support services	FRA	1
Belgium – IT services: consulting, software development	BEL	1

52 of 80 results closing within a fortnight.

Why the deadline window matters

TED cannot sort. Every sort parameter returns an error, and its natural order mixes deadlines in 2027 with framework agreements running to 2038.

So "give me the 500 most urgent tenders in Europe" is not a query TED can answer — and an Actor that sorted an arbitrary sample would be quietly lying. Instead, Closing within (days) bounds the window at the source. Inside that window the result is complete, and ordering it by urgency means something.

It defaults to 60 days. Widen it to look further out, narrow it to 14 for a weekly bid review.

This also matters for cost: filtering deadlines server-side cut the notices fetched and discarded from 1,954 to 1 on the same query.

Output

Field	Example
title, titleLanguage	France – Sewerage management services, eng
buyerName, buyerCountry	Stadt Essen, DEU
submissionDeadline	2026-09-22T14:00:00+02:00
daysUntilDeadline	1
deadlinePassed	false
cpvMain, cpvCodes	72000000
contractNature	services / supplies / works
procedureType	open, restricted, negotiated
placeOfPerformance	NUTS codes
totalValueEur	present on about 42 % of notices
winnerName, winnerCountry	on award notices
publicationNumber, publicationDate	599726-2026
noticeUrl, xmlUrl	the notice and its machine-readable form

Input

{
  "noticeType": "open-tenders",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "maxDaysUntilDeadline": 60,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Field	Default	Notes
noticeType	open-tenders	Tenders, awards, prior information, social
openOnly	true	Drops closed deadlines, at the source
maxDaysUntilDeadline	60	The window that makes results complete
cpvCodes	["72000000"]	45000000 construction, 33100000 medical
countries	—	Three-letter codes: FRA, DEU, ESP
searchText	—	See the caveat below
maxItems	500	One row per notice
publishedAfter	—	Only used when the deadline filter is off

Use cases

• Bid pipeline — every open tender in your CPV codes and countries, ordered by how soon it closes.
• Market entry — which public buyers purchase what you sell, and where.
• Competitor tracking — switch to award notices to see who wins.
• Partner search — foreign buyers and suppliers active in your sector.
• Market sizing — declared contract values by CPV and country.

Limits, honestly

• Free-text search is language-bound. Notices are published in the buyer's own language, so a French keyword finds French notices and misses the German ones. Prefer CPV codes, which are language-neutral.
• totalValueEur is present on about 42 % of tender notices. Many buyers do not publish an estimate before bids.
• Award notices carry no submission deadline, so daysUntilDeadline is empty there by design.
• winnerName appears on roughly 90 % of award notices. Where several suppliers won different lots, all are listed together — TED does not say which lot each won, and this Actor does not guess.
• Deadlines reaching 2035 and beyond are real: long framework agreements. They are not errors, but they will dominate an unbounded window.
• Requests are paced out of courtesy to a free public service.
• Not affiliated with TED or the Publications Office of the European Union.