EU TED Tenders Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the EU-wide official journal for public procurement — every EU/EEA member state's contracting authorities publish notices there, from a Polish ministry's IT framework agreement to a German city's construction tender. TED's own v3 search API is keyless and public, but it returns deeply nested eForms-taxonomy JSON with 24-language multilingual fields ({"eng": [...], "pol": [...]}) that are painful to parse by hand. This Actor queries TED's public search API and flattens every notice into one buyer-ready row — buyer, title, CPV classification, estimated value, deadline, and award/winner info once a contract has been won. No API key, no login, no eForms-schema puzzle.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408/429/503/network errors — up to 5 attempts, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Per-notice fault isolation — one malformed notice is skipped and logged, never crashes the whole run.
• 🌐 Multilingual-first field extraction — English preferred, falling back through 24 EU languages so a title/buyer name is never silently dropped.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — validated fields, ISO-8601 timestamps, never the raw eForms JSON blob.
• 💰 Pay per output — no Actor start fee. You pay for the output events listed in Pricing.

💡 Use cases

• Bid-team pipeline — pull new EU-wide tenders matching a CPV code or country every day.
• Market intelligence — track which EU public bodies are buying what, and at what value, across all 27+ member states.
• Award tracking — monitor closed notices for winner names and countries on contracts you bid on.
• Lead generation — build a cross-border prospect list of buyers issuing contracts in your sector.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
query	string	no	'—'	Raw TED expert-query string (e.g. classification-cpv=72000000 AND buyer-country=POL). When set, used…
cpvCodes	array	no	['72000000']	CPV classification codes, OR-combined (e.g. 72000000 for IT services). Default is a confirmed-live,…
buyerCountries	array	no	[]	Buyer country codes, OR-combined (ISO3, e.g. POL, DEU). Leave empty to match all EU/EEA…
noticeTypes	array	no	[]	Notice types, OR-combined (e.g. cn-standard, can-standard). Leave empty to match all notice…
publishedFrom	string	no	'—'	Only include notices published on or after this date, e.g. 2026-01-01.
publishedTo	string	no	'—'	Only include notices published on or before this date, e.g. 2026-08-01. Must be on/after…
maxResults	integer	no	20	Hard cap on the number of notice rows returned by this run.
useProxy	boolean	no	False	Route requests through Apify Proxy. TED is EU public infrastructure with no observed anti-bot, so this defaults off —…

Example input

{
  "cpvCodes": [
    "72000000"
  ],
  "maxResults": 5,
  "useProxy": true
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
publication_number	string	TED publication number, e.g. 13-2026. Always present.
notice_id	['string', 'null']	Stable per-notice UUID.
title	string	Notice title, multilingual-first (English preferred).
notice_url	string	Public TED notice URL, built from the publication number.
notice_type	['string', 'null']	TED notice type enum, e.g. cn-standard (contract notice), can-standard (contract award notice).
form_type	['string', 'null']	TED form type enum, e.g. competition, result.
procedure_type	['string', 'null']	Procurement procedure type, e.g. open, neg-w-call, oth-single.
buyer_name	['string', 'null']	Contracting authority / buyer name, multilingual-first.
buyer_country	['string', 'null']	Buyer country, ISO3 code (e.g. POL).
buyer_city	['string', 'null']	Buyer city, multilingual-first.
place_of_performance_country	['string', 'null']	Place-of-performance country, ISO3 code.
cpv_codes	array	Deduplicated CPV classification codes; empty list when none present.
description	['string', 'null']	Lot description, multilingual-first.
estimated_value_amount	['number', 'null']	Estimated value of the first lot, parsed as a float.
estimated_value_currency	['string', 'null']	Currency of estimated_value_amount.
deadline_date	['string', 'null']	Submission deadline of the first lot; null on award notices (no open deadline).
publication_date	['string', 'null']	Notice publication date, as returned by TED.
winner_name	['string', 'null']	Winning supplier name, multilingual-first; populated on award notices only.
winner_country	['string', 'null']	Winner country, ISO3 code; populated on award notices only.
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when this row was scraped.

Example output

{}

💰 Pricing

No Actor start fee. You pay for the output events below.

Event	USD per event	Billing unit
result-row	$0.004	Charged per notice row written to the dataset.

1,000 output events cost $4.00 at the standard rate, with no start charge.

Existing subscriber discounts remain available in the Apify Pricing tab.

🚧 Limitations

• TED (EU-wide) only — national procurement portals are out of scope (see our UK Contracts Finder Actor for UK-specific coverage).
• No eForms XML/PDF document downloads, only the structured notice metadata.
• Real-time per-query only — no historical bulk export and no cross-run deduplication.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a TED account or API key?

No. TED's v3 search API is public and keyless — this Actor calls it directly.

Why does the default CPV code return so many results?

72000000 (IT services) alone matches 396k+ live notices — confirmed on TED. maxResults defaults to 20 to keep a first run fast and cheap; raise it once you've confirmed the filter shape you want.

What if a notice's title isn't in English?

TED's multilingual fields aren't guaranteed to carry an "eng" key. This Actor falls back to the generic "mul" key, then the first available language, so title/buyer_name/description/winner_name are never silently dropped.

Can I write my own TED expert query?

Yes — set query to any raw TED expert-query string (e.g. classification-cpv=72000000 AND buyer-country=POL) and it's sent verbatim, overriding every structured filter.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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