EU Public Tenders (TED) Scraper

EU Public Tenders (TED) Scraper finds EU public tenders and public procurement notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, ted.europa.eu, the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU) and exports them to JSON, CSV or Excel: title, buyer, country, CPV codes, estimated and awarded values, submission deadline, procedure type and links to the notice and the tender documents. Filter by country, CPV code, keywords, notice type (calls for tenders, contract awards, prior information), publication date, deadline and minimum value, or paste your own TED expert query - and schedule it as your own tender alert.

The Actor uses the official, open TED Search API published by the Publications Office of the EU. No scraping of HTML pages, no login, no API key, and the data is official EU open data that may be reused commercially (see Data source and licence below).

What can you do with it

• Get a daily tender alert for your sector: every new call for tenders in your countries and CPV codes, in a spreadsheet, Slack channel or CRM each morning after TED's daily publication.
• Build a bid pipeline: open tenders with at least two weeks left, above a minimum value, sorted by earliest deadline, with links to the tender documents.
• Research competitors and winners: contract award notices with awarded values, buyers, procedure types and CPV sectors, to see who wins public contracts in your market and for how much.
• Analyse public spending: bulk exports of notices by country, sector and period for research, journalism or market sizing.
• Feed tender data to software and AI: clean JSON for an internal tool, a bid/no-bid assistant or an LLM, without learning TED's expert query language, pagination and multilingual format.

Who it is for

• SMEs and sales teams tracking tenders in their country and sector (for example every IT services tender in Cyprus and Greece published this week) without paying for a tender-alert subscription.
• Bid consultants and tender writers who need a daily feed of calls for tenders with deadlines, values and document links, ready for a CRM, a spreadsheet or an AI assistant.
• Researchers, journalists and analysts studying public spending: award notices with winners' contract values, buyer types, procedure types and CPV sectors across the EU.
• Developers who want TED data in JSON/CSV without implementing the expert query language, the iteration-token pagination and the multilingual response format themselves.

Compared with paid tender-alert services (typically EUR 50-300 per month for one country and a handful of sectors), you pay only for the notices you actually download (from $0.004 per notice, see Pricing), you get the raw structured data instead of e-mails, you choose the filters freely, and you can schedule the Actor to run every morning after TED's daily publication.

How to use

1. Open EU Public Tenders (TED) Scraper and click Try for free (or Start).
2. Pick your buyer countries and CPV codes (a 2-digit prefix such as 72 covers a whole sector), and optionally keywords, notice types, a deadline or a minimum value.
3. Click Start, download the notices as CSV, Excel or JSON from the Output tab, and add a daily schedule to turn it into a tender alert.

Sample output (selected columns)

title	buyer.name	buyer.country	cpvMain	estimatedValue	submissionDeadline	noticeType
Cyprus - Software maintenance and support services for the hospital information system	Ministry of Health	CYP	72267000	250000 EUR	2026-11-20	cn-standard

(Illustrative row; the full record with links is shown under Output below.)

Input

All filters are optional and combined with AND. TED refuses a query that matches everything, so when no filter at all is set the Actor returns the newest notices of the last 7 days (the log says so); set at least one filter to search for what you need.

Field	Type	Default	Description
countries	array	all	Buyer countries as ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes, the format TED uses: CYP, GRC, DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP, POL, NLD, GBR, NOR, CHE, ... Two-letter EU/EEA codes (CY, GR, DE, ...) are converted.
cpvCodes	array	all	CPV codes (what is being bought). Full 8-digit codes (72260000) or prefixes for a whole division (72 = IT services, 45 = construction, 33 = medical, 79 = business services).
keywords	string	-	Words that must all appear in the notice text (any language, stemmed). Quote phrases: "web design" wordpress.
noticeTypes	array	all	TED notice type codes, e.g. cn-standard (contract notice = call for tenders), can-standard (contract award notice), pin-only (prior information notice). Full list below.
publishedAfter / publishedBefore	string	-	Publication date window. Absolute (2026-01-31, 20260131) or relative to now (30 days, 2 weeks, 6 months).
deadlineAfter	string	-	Only notices whose tender-receipt deadline is on/after this date. Absolute, or relative counted forward (7 days = at least a week left).
minValue	number	-	Minimum estimated value (or awarded value for award notices) in EUR. Notices stating another currency or no value are excluded when set.
onlyOpenForSubmission	boolean	false	Only competition notices whose submission deadline has not passed (as of the run start).
maxNotices	integer	500	How many notices to save. 0 = all matching notices (mind the cost: broad queries match hundreds of thousands).
sortBy	select	publication-date-desc	publication-date-desc (newest first), publication-date-asc, deadline-asc (earliest deadline first).
fields	select	basic	basic = the fields documented below. full adds description, identifiers, OJ S number, dispatch date, submission URL and raw (every field as returned by TED).
includeDocumentLinks	boolean	true	Add documentsUrl (where the buyer publishes the tender documents) when the notice states it.
query	string (Advanced)	-	Your own TED expert query. Replaces all filters above; the sort order is still appended unless the query has its own SORT BY.
scope	select (Advanced)	ALL	ALL = last 10 years, ACTIVE = TED's active notices (unexpired competitions, recent planning and result notices), LATEST = today's OJ S issue only.
preferredLanguage	string (Advanced)	eng	Language for multilingual values (title, buyer.name, description, links): eng, deu, fra, ell, ita, spa, pol, nld, ... English, then the notice's own language, are the fallbacks.

Example 1: IT tenders in Cyprus and Greece from the last 30 days (the default prefill)

{
    "countries": ["CYP", "GRC"],
    "cpvCodes": ["72"],
    "publishedAfter": "30 days",
    "maxNotices": 100
}

Builds the expert query (buyer-country IN (CYP GRC)) AND (classification-cpv = 72*) AND (publication-date >= 20260929) SORT BY publication-date DESC.

Example 2: open calls for tenders for construction work above EUR 1 million, earliest deadline first

{
    "countries": ["DE", "AT", "NL"],
    "cpvCodes": ["45"],
    "noticeTypes": ["cn-standard"],
    "onlyOpenForSubmission": true,
    "deadlineAfter": "14 days",
    "minValue": 1000000,
    "sortBy": "deadline-asc",
    "maxNotices": 200
}

Example 3: who won software contracts in Q3 2026 (award notices), with the raw TED record

{
    "keywords": "ERP \"software licence\"",
    "noticeTypes": ["can-standard", "can-social"],
    "publishedAfter": "2026-07-01",
    "publishedBefore": "2026-09-30",
    "fields": "full",
    "maxNotices": 0
}

Or skip the filters and pass an expert query built on TED's expert search page:

{
    "query": "(buyer-country IN (MLT)) AND (FT ~ (cloud)) AND (publication-date >= 20260101)",
    "scope": "ACTIVE",
    "maxNotices": 50
}

Output

One dataset item per notice (the basic preset; full adds the keys listed afterwards):

{
    "publicationNumber": "650123-2026",
    "noticeType": "cn-standard",
    "formType": "competition",
    "title": "Cyprus - Software maintenance and support services for the hospital information system",
    "titleLanguage": "eng",
    "buyer": {
        "name": "Ministry of Health",
        "country": "CYP",
        "city": "Nicosia",
        "website": "https://www.moh.gov.cy/",
        "type": "cga"
    },
    "cpvCodes": ["72267000", "72000000", "72260000"],
    "cpvMain": "72267000",
    "placeOfPerformance": ["CY000"],
    "estimatedValue": { "amount": 250000, "currency": "EUR" },
    "awardedValue": null,
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-20",
    "submissionDeadline": "2026-11-20T12:00:00+01:00",
    "procedureType": "open",
    "contractNature": "services",
    "lots": 1,
    "links": {
        "html": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/650123-2026/html",
        "pdf": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/650123-2026/pdf",
        "xml": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/650123-2026/xml",
        "ted": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/650123-2026"
    },
    "documentsUrl": "https://www.eprocurement.gov.cy/epps/cft/viewContractNotices.do?resourceId=12345",
    "language": "ell",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
publicationNumber	TED's unique notice number (number-year), the key of every TED URL.
noticeType, formType	What kind of notice it is (codes below) and the procurement stage: planning, competition, result, cont-modif, completion, dir-awa-pre, consultation, bri.
title, titleLanguage	Title in the preferred language when available (English by default), otherwise in the notice's own language; titleLanguage says which.
buyer	Contracting authority: name (several buyers joined with ; ), country (alpha-3), city, website, type (legal type code: cga central government, ra regional, la local authority, body-pl body governed by public law, pub-undert public undertaking, eu-ins-bod-ag EU institution, ...).
cpvCodes, cpvMain	All CPV codes of the notice and the main one.
placeOfPerformance	NUTS and/or country codes where the contract is performed, as TED returns them.
estimatedValue	Estimated value of the procedure (or the lot estimates added up) as { amount, currency }, or null.
awardedValue	Value of the contracts awarded in this notice (award/modification notices), or null.
publicationDate	Date published on TED (YYYY-MM-DD).
submissionDeadline	Earliest tender-receipt deadline across the lots, ISO 8601 with TED's UTC offset, or null (award and planning notices have none).
procedureType	open, restricted, neg-w-call, neg-wo-call, comp-dial, innovation, oth-single, oth-mult, ...
contractNature	services, supplies or works.
lots	Number of lots, derived from the lot-level values TED returned (best effort; null when none).
links	The notice as HTML, PDF and XML (authentic data) on ted.europa.eu plus the TED detail page.
documentsUrl	Where the procurement documents are published, when stated (and includeDocumentLinks is on).
language	Official language of the notice (lower-case 3-letter code).
scrapedAt	When the item was collected.

With fields: "full" every item also has description (procedure or first lot description), noticeIdentifier and procedureIdentifier (eForms UUIDs; the procedure identifier links the contract notice, its award notice and modifications), noticeVersion, noticeSubtype, ojsNumber (OJ S issue, e.g. 205/2026), dispatchDate, submissionUrl and raw, the record exactly as the TED API returned it (requested fields only).

The Overview tab of a run shows title, buyer, country, deadline, estimated value and the TED link; the full items are available as JSON, CSV, Excel or through the API like any Apify dataset.

Notice type codes

Code	Meaning
pin-only, pin-buyer, pin-rtl, pin-cfc-standard, pin-cfc-social, pin-tran	Prior information notices: a buyer announces what it plans to buy (some can be used as a call for competition).
cn-standard, cn-social, cn-desg	Contract notices: calls for tenders you can bid on (standard regime, light regime for social and other specific services, design contests).
qu-sy, subco, veat, pmc	Qualification system, subcontracting, voluntary ex-ante transparency and pre-market consultation notices.
can-standard, can-social, can-desg, can-tran	Contract award notices: the result of a procedure, with the awarded value.
can-modif, compl	Contract modification and contract completion notices.
brin-ecs, brin-eeig	Business registration information notices (not procurement).

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model, so you only pay for what you get:

• $0.004 per saved notice (one dataset item), and
• $0.005 per run start.

1,000 notices therefore cost $5.005, whichever filters and presets you choose; fields: "full" costs the same per notice. The exact prices are shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Platform usage (compute) is covered by these prices and is not billed separately. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options if you want a hard cap; everything saved until then stays in the dataset.

How it works

1. The structured filters are turned into a TED expert search query (shown in the log), or your raw query is used as is.
2. The query is validated with TED's syntax check (checkQuerySyntax), so a typo produces a clear error message instead of an empty dataset. If only the check endpoint objects, the search is still attempted; the run fails only when TED rejects the search itself.
3. Notices are fetched from POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search in iteration mode (TED's scroll pagination, which has no limit on the number of results) in pages of up to 250 notices, until maxNotices, the end of the results or an error. Only organisation-level fields are requested; contact persons, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are never requested.
4. Every notice is normalised into the item above: multilingual values are resolved to your preferred language, numeric strings become numbers, lot-level deadlines are combined into the earliest one, and links are completed from TED's documented URL patterns when missing.

Politeness: at most 2 requests in flight, 200-500 ms between requests, exponential backoff on HTTP 429 / 5xx (up to 5 retries) - far below TED's fair-usage limit of 700 requests per minute. A run with 500 notices usually takes well under a minute. The log ends with a summary: pages fetched, notices received and saved, duplicates skipped and the total number of matching notices.

Limitations

• Update cadence: TED publishes one OJ S issue per working day (Monday to Friday, around 06:00 CET; nothing on weekends and EU holidays). A notice sent by a buyer appears on TED a few days later. Running the Actor more often than once a day does not surface more notices.
• Language coverage: TED stores titles, buyer names and descriptions in the languages the buyer provided. Many notices carry an English title, but a lot of them (and most descriptions and buyer names) are available only in the notice's own language; titleLanguage/language tell you what you got, and preferredLanguage lets you pick another language first.
• Values: estimatedValue and awardedValue are what the buyer declared. Many notices (especially prior information and light-regime notices) state no value; minValue only matches values declared in EUR.
• Lots: TED's search index is notice-based, so lot-level data comes back as lists without lot identifiers; submissionDeadline is the earliest lot deadline and lots is a best-effort count.
• Below-threshold tenders (national procurement below the EU thresholds) are mostly not on TED and therefore not in this Actor.
• Pre-2024 notices (the old TED schema) have fewer fields than eForms notices; some values may be null for them.
• The TED API is occasionally unavailable during maintenance; the Actor retries with backoff and reports a clear error if the API stays down.

Data source and licence

All data comes from the TED Search API (api.ted.europa.eu), the official public interface of TED operated by the Publications Office of the European Union, used within its fair usage policy. According to the TED legal notice, the procurement notices published in the OJ S can be freely reused, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, under the Commission's reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents); the editorial content of the TED website is licensed under CC BY 4.0 and its metadata under CC0. Reuse of content that depicts identifiable private individuals or includes third-party works may require additional rights, and TED's logos may not be used without the Publications Office's consent. Only the electronically signed notices in the OJ S are authentic; the links.xml and links.pdf of every item point at the source notice.

Personal data: the Actor requests only organisation-level fields and discards any field that could hold contact persons, e-mail addresses or phone numbers. Buyer names and cities are public bodies, not people.

Integrations

• Make, Zapier, n8n and other automation tools: add the Apify integration (the official "Apify" app/node), choose Run an Actor with this Actor and your input, and use Get dataset items (or the "Actor run finished" trigger) to pass the records on - for example to a CRM or a Google Sheet of new tenders every morning after TED's daily publication. Each tool also accepts Apify webhooks: Console -> Actor -> Integrations -> Webhooks, event Run succeeded.
• AI agents (MCP): Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com, or the @apify/actors-mcp-server package) exposes this Actor as a tool to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients: the agent calls eu-tenders-ted-scraper with an input such as {"countries": ["CYP"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "publishedAfter": "7 days"} and reads the dataset items back.
• API and SDKs: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/davidts~eu-tenders-ted-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items with the input as JSON body returns the records directly; the Apify client libraries for JavaScript and Python wrap the same call.
• Schedules: Console -> Schedules runs the Actor daily or weekly with a saved input and, combined with a webhook or integration, delivers only what is new.

Troubleshooting

Log message	What it means
No filter was given, so the newest notices of the last 7 days are returned	Set at least one filter (or a raw query) to search for what you need.
Input field "countries" contains "..."	Use alpha-3 codes (CYP, GRC) or two-letter EU codes, not country names.
TED rejected the query: Syntax error ...	The raw query (or keywords) is not valid expert syntax; the message gives the column. Test queries on TED's expert search page.
TED's syntax check rejected the query ... Trying the search anyway	The check endpoint objected but the search may still work; if the search is rejected too, the run fails with TED's message.
TED rejected the field(s) ...	TED changed a field name; the Actor continues without that field (its value is null) - please report it.
TED rejected the request ("...") without naming a field; retrying with the field names known to work live	TED refused the request without saying which field it dislikes; the Actor retries once with the field names a public client uses live and lists the left-out fields at the end - please report it.
The query matched no notices	Widen the filters (dates, CPV prefix) or check the country codes.
TED rate-limited the requests (HTTP 429) / server error	TED's fair-usage limit or maintenance; the Actor already retried with backoff. Run again later.
maxNotices is 0 (no limit)	A reminder that every matching notice will be saved and charged.

FAQ

How much does it cost per 1,000 tenders? $4 per 1,000 notices ($0.004 each) plus $0.005 per run, whatever filters or field preset you choose. Platform usage is included. A daily alert for one sector that returns a few dozen notices costs a few cents per run. You can cap the cost of any run in the run options.

Is it legal to use TED data? What about GDPR? Yes - the Actor does not scrape web pages; it calls TED's official open API within its fair-usage policy, and the Publications Office states that OJ S notices can be freely reused, commercially or not (see Data source and licence). The Actor never requests contact persons, e-mail addresses or phone numbers. This is not legal advice.

Can I export tenders to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets? Yes. Every run's dataset downloads as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML from the Output tab. For Google Sheets, import the CSV, use the Google Sheets Import & Export Actor from the Apify Store or a Make/Zapier scenario, or point =IMPORTDATA() at the API URL of the last run's dataset (the URL contains your API token, so keep the sheet private).

How do I get a daily tender alert? Create a schedule in Apify Console (Schedules) that runs Monday to Friday after about 07:00 CET with your filters plus scope: "LATEST" (only the latest daily OJ S issue, so each run returns just that day's new notices) and noticeTypes: ["cn-standard"] (calls for tenders). Add an e-mail/Slack integration or webhook to receive the new notices. Running more than once a day does not find more notices, because TED publishes once per working day.

Can I use it from my code, a CRM or an AI agent? Yes. POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/davidts~eu-tenders-ted-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input as JSON returns the notices directly; the Apify JavaScript and Python clients and Apify's MCP server (for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents) work too. See Integrations.

Does it include national tenders below the EU thresholds? Mostly not - they are usually published only on national portals, not on TED. See Limitations.

If this Actor saves you time, a short review on its Store page helps other people find it - thank you! Missing a filter or field? Open an issue on the Issues tab and I will look at it.

Changelog

The full history is in the Actor's CHANGELOG.md (also shown in the Information tab in Apify Console).

• 0.1 (2026-10) - first release: structured filters and raw expert queries, iteration-mode pagination, multilingual normalisation, basic/full presets, document links, pay-per-event pricing.