EU and Dutch Tender Monitor (TED and TenderNed)

Know about a public tender the day it is published, not when a competitor has already bid. Governments, municipalities, hospitals, universities and utilities across the EU must publish their contracts. In the Netherlands they go to TenderNed, above the EU threshold they also go to TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). Reading both portals every morning is a job in itself, and the alerting services that do it for you start at four figures per year. This Actor reads both sources through their public JSON APIs and returns one clean feed: title, buyer, country, CPV codes, procedure, deadline, estimated value and a link to the notice. Filter by country, sector (CPV), keyword, buyer and value, run it on a schedule, and pay only for the tenders it finds.

A real run example: three days back, country NL, no further filters, returned 295 TenderNed publications and hit the 300 TED cap in 16 seconds, from a hospital tender for hygiene boxes to a province looking for a flexible pool of IT professionals under a framework agreement. Narrowed to CPV 72 (IT services) and one day back, the same run returns 14 TenderNed publications and 28 TED notices.

Who uses this

• Bid and sales teams at IT, construction, facility, consultancy and healthcare suppliers who need every relevant tender in their CPV range on the day it appears.
• Bid consultants and tender writers tracking several clients and sectors at once.
• Market and competition analysts following which authorities buy what, with award notices included.
• Lead generation: a public tender is a budget that has been approved. The buyer name and deadline tell you who to call and when.
• AI agents and data teams that want structured tender data without scraping two portals in two languages.

What you get per tender

Field	Example
source	ted or tenderned
noticeId	723093-2026 (TED) or 445954 (TenderNed)
publishedAt	2026-10-20
deadline	2026-11-27 (TED) or 2026-11-25T13:00:00 (TenderNed)
title	Europese aanbesteding ICT-dienstverlening
buyer	Stichting voor Algemeen Toegankelijk Onderwijs Eindhoven e.o.
buyerCountry	NL
cpvCodes	["72315000"]
procedureType	open, restricted, negotiated-with-prior-call
noticeType	cn-standard, can-standard (TED) or the Dutch publication type (TenderNed)
estimatedValue	700000 (TED only, TenderNed does not publish values)
currency	EUR
description	Up to 1000 characters of the notice text
url	Link to the notice on ted.europa.eu or tenderned.nl

{
  "source": "ted",
  "noticeId": "723093-2026",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-20",
  "deadline": "2026-11-27",
  "title": "Europese aanbesteding ICT-dienstverlening",
  "buyer": "Stichting voor Algemeen Toegankelijk Onderwijs Eindhoven e.o.",
  "buyerCountry": "NL",
  "cpvCodes": ["72315000"],
  "procedureType": "open",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "estimatedValue": 700000.0,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "description": "Middels deze aanbesteding wenst Aanbestedende dienst te komen tot ...",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/723093-2026"
}

Why two sources

TenderNed is the mandatory Dutch portal and carries every national tender, including the ones below the EU threshold that never reach TED. TED carries the EU-wide notices for all member states plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Dutch tenders above the threshold appear on both. With countries set to NL you get the full Dutch picture, with NL plus BE and DE you get the Benelux and Germany in one run.

Input

• countries: two-letter codes, default ["NL"]. NL switches on TenderNed, every code is served from TED.
• cpvCodes: CPV codes or prefixes. 72 is all IT services, 7226 software services, 45 construction, 79 business services. Prefixes cover everything below them on both sources.
• keywords: at least one must appear in title or description (case-insensitive). Use the language of the notice.
• daysBack: publication window ending today, 1 to 30. 1 is yesterday and today.
• buyerFilter: substring on the contracting authority, for example gemeente or Rijkswaterstaat.
• minValue: minimum published estimated value in EUR. Notices without a value are dropped when set, which limits the feed to TED.
• maxResults: cap on returned tenders, newest first, up to 1000.

How it works

TenderNed is read through its public publications API (list plus one detail call per tender for the CPV codes). TED is read through the official Search API v3 with an expert query that pushes country, CPV, keyword, buyer and value filters to the server. No HTML scraping, no login, no API key. Both sources are polled independently: if one is down, the other still delivers and the run log tells you which one was skipped. Results are deduplicated on notice ID and sorted newest first.

Use with AI agents and automation

• Schedule it daily at 07:00 and push the dataset to Slack, Teams, Google Sheets or your CRM with an Apify integration or a webhook.
• AI agents: call it as a tool from LangChain, LlamaIndex or over MCP so an agent can answer "which Dutch municipalities published an IT tender this week and when do they close?" with source links.
• Pipelines: JSON output per run, filter on noticeType to split new competitions (cn-*) from award notices (can-*).

Pricing

Pay per tender found: $0.005 per returned tender ($5 per 1,000), nothing for an empty run. A daily run for IT services (CPV 72) in the Netherlands returned 42 tenders on 23 October 2026, so a month of daily monitoring for one sector costs in the order of 6 dollars, and a run limited to new competitions or a narrower CPV range costs less. Compare that with commercial tender alert services at well over 1000 euros per year.

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Data source and compliance

Sources: TenderNed (PIANOo, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs) and TED (Publications Office of the European Union). Both are official, public and free to reuse. The data describes public bodies and procurement procedures. No personal data is collected or returned.

FAQ

Does a Dutch tender above the EU threshold appear twice? No. It is published on TenderNed and on TED under different identifiers, and the actor merges the two on title and buyer so you pay for it once. The newest publication wins, so a TED record can carry an estimated value that TenderNed does not publish. Why is estimatedValue empty for TenderNed? The TenderNed API does not expose the estimated value. TED does, when the buyer published it. Can I search in English? TED notices carry the title in the language of the buyer. For Dutch, German or French tenders use keywords in that language, or filter on CPV instead, which is language independent. Are award notices included? Yes. The noticeType field tells you whether a record is a new competition, a prior information notice, an award or a modification. Which countries work? All EU member states plus NO, IS, LI, CH and GB on TED. TenderNed is Netherlands only.

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