# EU TED Tenders Monitor - Official API, Only New (`digivibetech/eu-ted-tenders-monitor`) Actor

Monitor EU TED public procurement notices via the official Expert Search API. Filter by country, CPV, notice type and date. Only-new mode for alerts. Organisation fields only — emails, phones and person names redacted. $0.0009 per notice, no start fee.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/digivibetech/eu-ted-tenders-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [DigiVibeTech](https://apify.com/digivibetech) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, AI, Business
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## Pricing

$0.89 / 1,000 tender notice (one ted notice returned)s

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## EU TED Tenders Monitor

Search and **monitor EU public procurement notices** from [TED](https://ted.europa.eu) via the **official Expert Search API** (`api.ted.europa.eu/v3`). Filter by buyer country, CPV, notice type and publication date. Turn on **only-new** mode to get alerts for notices you have not seen before.

Built for B2B lead gen, bid desks and research agents that need clean, machine-readable tender metadata — without scraping HTML or collecting personal contact details.

### What you get

One dataset item per notice:

- `publicationNumber`, `publicationDate`, `noticeType`, `procedureType`
- `buyerNames` (organisation), `buyerCountry`
- `titles`, `deadlineDates`, `cpv`, `placeOfPerformance`, `contractNature`
- `estimatedValue` + `estimatedValueCurrency` when present
- `noticeUrl` / `pdfUrlEn` links to the official TED page

### Input

| Field | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `query` | (optional) | Raw TED expert-search string |
| `countries` | - | ISO codes (`NLD`, `BEL`…) |
| `cpvPrefixes` | - | 2–8 digit CPV (padded to 8) |
| `noticeTypes` | - | e.g. `cn-standard` |
| `publishedSince` | - | Days or `YYYYMMDD` |
| `maxNotices` | 50 | Cap on charged notices |
| `onlyNew` + `monitorName` | false / default | Skip already-seen publication numbers |

Helpers are AND-combined with `query` when both are set.

### Example input

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "NLD"
  ],
  "publishedSince": "20261001",
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard"
  ],
  "maxNotices": 3,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

### Example output (one record)

Real record from a test run on the input above (dates and values change over time).

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "674496-2026",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-01",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "buyerNames": [
    "gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch"
  ],
  "buyerCountry": [
    "NLD"
  ],
  "titles": [
    "perceel 1 van 1"
  ],
  "deadlineDates": [
    "2026-10-26"
  ],
  "estimatedValue": null,
  "estimatedValueCurrency": null,
  "cpv": [
    "77211300"
  ],
  "placeOfPerformance": [
    "NL416",
    "NLD"
  ],
  "contractNature": [
    "services"
  ],
  "procedureType": "open",
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/674496-2026",
  "pdfUrlEn": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/674496-2026/pdf",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-18T05:39:36.080033+00:00",
  "matchedQuery": "buyer-country = \"NLD\" AND notice-type = \"cn-standard\" AND publication-date >= 20261001"
}
```

### Limits

- Data comes from the TED API as published. Fields the buyer left empty (for example `estimatedValue`) stay empty.
- TED covers EU-threshold notices. National-only tenders below the thresholds are usually not on TED.
- `onlyNew` remembers publication numbers per `monitorName`; renaming the monitor starts from scratch.
- It does not download tender documents or log in to e-procurement portals.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Tender notice returned | **$0.0009** |

No start fee. Failures and already-seen notices are free. Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops before it is reached.

### Compliance

- Official TED API only (no HTML scrape when the API works)
- Honest User-Agent with publisher contact details, ≤1–2 requests/s, Retry-After honoured
- `api.ted.europa.eu/robots.txt` returns 404 → no robots restrictions (RFC 9309); site robots only block private/login paths
- **No personal data:** emails, phones and natural-person contact fields are never requested; free-text is redacted when `redactContactDetails` is true (default)

### Use it in n8n, Make or Zapier

Schedule a daily run with `onlyNew: true`, then webhook on new dataset items.

*Maintained by DigiVibeTech. Questions: [digivibetech.com/support](https://digivibetech.com/support/)*

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Raw TED Expert Search query, e.g. buyer-country = "NLD" AND publication-date >= 20261001. Combined with the helper filters below using AND.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO country codes (NLD, BEL, DEU…). OR-combined in the TED query.

## `cpvPrefixes` (type: `array`):

2–8 digit CPV codes. Shorter codes are padded with zeros to 8 digits (72 → 72000000) and matched exactly on classification-cpv.

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

TED notice-type values, e.g. cn-standard, can-standard, qu-sy.

## `publishedSince` (type: `string`):

Either a number of days (e.g. 7) or a date YYYYMMDD / YYYY-MM-DD. Maps to publication-date >= …

## `maxNotices` (type: `integer`):

Newest matching notices to return (each costs $0.0009). Keep small for canaries.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Return only publication numbers not seen in earlier runs with the same monitor name. Ideal for a daily schedule + webhook.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Separate only-new monitors by using different names (letters, digits, '-' ; max 40).

## `redactContactDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Always recommended. Strips emails, phone numbers and contact-person patterns from free-text fields. Personal contact API fields are never requested.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "NLD"
  ],
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard"
  ],
  "publishedSince": "20261001",
  "maxNotices": 3,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "monitorName": "default",
  "redactContactDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All result items (overview view)

## `errors` (type: `string`):

Inputs that could not be processed, with the reason

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts of processed, billed and failed items

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "NLD"
    ],
    "noticeTypes": [
        "cn-standard"
    ],
    "publishedSince": "20261001",
    "maxNotices": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("digivibetech/eu-ted-tenders-monitor").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 = {
    "countries": ["NLD"],
    "noticeTypes": ["cn-standard"],
    "publishedSince": "20261001",
    "maxNotices": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("digivibetech/eu-ted-tenders-monitor").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "NLD"
  ],
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard"
  ],
  "publishedSince": "20261001",
  "maxNotices": 3
}' |
apify call digivibetech/eu-ted-tenders-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/EgKu1S7jc37WAlZyp/builds/EQC43GqKoENHF9t30/openapi.json