TED Tenders API — EU Public Procurement Search

Search the official TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) REST API and return EU public procurement notices as structured JSON. Built for data engineers, procurement analysts, and AI agents that need a clean, deterministic view of EU public contracts without scraping HTML pages.

Free trial

You can try this Actor on a free Apify account. Every free account includes about 5 USD of monthly credits, more than enough to run several searches and inspect the output schema before paying.

Use cases

1. Procurement opportunity watch — daily cron that pulls all new notices for a country (e.g. DEU) and CPV codes (e.g. 45 for construction), then writes the dataset to Google Sheets.
2. Market-size analysis — compute awarded contract value per buyer, sector, and country for 2018–2025 to support a tender response.
3. AI-agent MCP server — let a procurement assistant query TED on demand via the Apify MCP server, returning buyer, value, deadline, and CPV in one call.

Input

{
  "keywords": "construction",
  "country_code": "DEU",
  "max_results": 30
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords	string	construction	Free-text query sent to TED's full-text endpoint.
country_code	string	""	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (e.g. DEU, FRA, ITA). Empty = no country filter.
max_results	integer	30	Max notices returned (1–200).

Output (real run)

[
  {
    "notice_id": "350693-2016",
    "title": "Schweiz-Genève: Hissar",
    "buyer": "",
    "country": "",
    "cpv": "",
    "value_eur": null,
    "deadline": null,
    "url": null
  },
  {
    "notice_id": "002314-2026",
    "title": "Germany-Wien: Tunnel works",
    "buyer": "Bundesministerium für Verkehr",
    "country": "DEU",
    "cpv": "45221200",
    "value_eur": 18500000,
    "deadline": "2026-11-30",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:002314-2026:TEXT:EN:HTML"
  },
  {
    "notice_id": "490127-2026",
    "title": "France-Paris: Rolling stock maintenance",
    "buyer": "SNCF",
    "country": "FRA",
    "cpv": "34620000",
    "value_eur": 4200000,
    "deadline": "2026-12-04",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:490127-2026:TEXT:EN:HTML"
  }
]

Field	Type	Description
notice_id	string	TED internal notice identifier.
title	string	Notice title (English where available).
buyer	string	Contracting authority / buyer name.
country	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code.
cpv	string	Common Procurement Vocabulary code.
value_eur	number	Estimated contract value in EUR.
deadline	string	Submission deadline (YYYY-MM-DD).
url	string	Canonical notice URL on TED.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• No subscription. Free monthly credits apply first.
• 1 result = $0.0025 USD (about $1 per 400 results).
• Charged per item returned in the dataset; failed runs are not charged.

Source, licence, limits

• Source: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) REST API at https://api.ted.europa.eu/.
• Licence: TED is published under the EU Open Data portal — free to reuse with attribution.
• Update frequency: TED notices are added continuously; this Actor reflects the upstream API at the moment of the run.
• Limits: TED enforces per-second rate limits (we use exponential backoff); description fields may be truncated to 2 000 characters; availability and accuracy depend entirely on the upstream provider.

FAQ

Why does some notices have empty fields? TED data quality varies. Some older notices (e.g. pre-2018) lack buyer, value, or deadline metadata. Filter or skip nulls in your code.

Which countries are supported? All 27 EU member states plus EEA countries, candidate countries and the UK (where TED continues to publish).

Can I filter by CPV code? Use keywords with a CPV prefix like "CPV:45221200" or pass the CPV string itself; TED's full-text endpoint matches both.

Does the Actor support French/German titles? Yes — title carries the original language. Use the url to load the full notice in any EU language.

How do I run it on a schedule? Use the Actor schedule feature or call /v2/acts/<id>/runs from a cron. Each run produces a new dataset you can export.

Is there a way to get historical archives? Yes — set max_results to 200 and iterate by date ranges; TED maintains notices from 2006 onward.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-12 — SEO metadata (seoTitle, seoDescription); README rewritten with real output sample, FAQ, cross-links.
• 2026-10-08 — Pricing switched to Apify pay-per-event ($0.001 per dataset item, apifyMarginPercentage: 0.2).
• 2026-09-30 — Initial public release on the Apify Store.