# TED Tenders API — EU Public Procurement (`devone-studio/ted-tenders-api`) Actor

Search EU public procurement tenders from the official TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) REST API. Returns structured notices: buyer, country, value, deadline, CPV codes, link.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devone-studio/ted-tenders-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Ti Gg](https://apify.com/devone-studio) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 per results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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)

```json
[
  {
    "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Free-text query.

## `country_code` (type: `string`):

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (e.g. DEU, FRA, ITA).

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Max notices returned (1-200).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "construction",
  "country_code": "",
  "max_results": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results of the run, as JSON from the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devone-studio/ted-tenders-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devone-studio/ted-tenders-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call devone-studio/ted-tenders-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devone-studio/ted-tenders-api"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/iQIwYKjhawb12DdI3/builds/3d8St8dXbpbDojRBo/openapi.json