EU TED Tender Monitor

Search and monitor EU public procurement notices published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official EU journal for public tenders. The Actor uses only the official, anonymous TED Search API v3. It does no web scraping, needs no login, and works around no limits.

Use it to:

• get a daily or weekly list of new calls for tender that match your keywords, CPV codes and countries
• feed tenders into a CRM, spreadsheet, Slack or e-mail alert (through Apify integrations)
• build a lead list of public buyers for a sector

What it does

• Filters: full-text keywords, CPV codes (with or without sub-codes), buyer country, a publication-date range or the last N days, TED form type, minimum estimated value, and "still open for submission".
• Normalised output: one flat record per notice. Each record has the notice number, title, buyer, country, CPV codes, estimated value and currency, tender deadline, and links to the notice page, PDF and XML.
• Only-new mode: for scheduled runs. Notices that an earlier run with the same filters already delivered are skipped. The state is kept in a named key-value store.
• Privacy by default: contact persons, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are never requested from TED and never output.
• Max-cost aware: if you set a maximum cost per run, the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches that limit.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array of strings	–	Full-text keywords or phrases, combined with OR. TED searches the full notice text in any language, so a keyword can match a notice whose title does not contain it.
cpvCodes	array of strings	–	CPV codes such as 72000000 or 48000000-8, combined with OR.
cpvIncludeSubcodes	boolean	true	When on, 72000000 also matches 72212190 and other sub-codes.
countries	array of strings	–	Buyer country as ISO alpha-2 (DE) or alpha-3 (DEU), combined with OR.
lastNDays	integer	7	Publication window that ends today (UTC). Today counts as day 1. Ignored when publishedFrom is set.
publishedFrom / publishedTo	date	–	Explicit publication-date range. Both ends are inclusive.
formTypes	array	["competition"]	TED form types. competition means calls for tender. Leave empty to get all types.
minEstimatedValue	integer	–	Keep notices whose estimated value is at least this amount in valueCurrency.
valueCurrency	string	EUR	ISO 4217 currency used by the value filter.
includeWithoutValue	boolean	false	When a minimum value is set, also keep notices with no published value or with a different currency.
onlyOpenForSubmission	boolean	false	Keep only notices whose earliest deadline is still in the future.
onlyNew	boolean	false	Skip notices already delivered by an earlier run with the same filters.
stateKey	string	derived from the filters	Custom name for the only-new state.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of notices output per run (1–10,000).
language	string	eng	Preferred 3-letter language for titles and links. When TED has no title in that language, the original language is used.
includeBuyerWebsite	boolean	false	Adds the buyer organisation's website URL. This is never a personal contact.

Example:

{
  "keywords": ["software"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "countries": ["DE", "AT"],
  "lastNDays": 7,
  "minEstimatedValue": 100000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this. The example is a real item from a test run on 2026-11-03; see sample_output.json.

{
  "publicationNumber": "763816-2026",
  "title": "USŁUGA UTRZYMANIA I ROZWOJU GDAŃSKIEJ PLATFORMY EDUKACYJNEJ",
  "titleLanguage": "pol",
  "tedTitle": "Poland – System and support services – USŁUGA UTRZYMANIA I ROZWOJU GDAŃSKIEJ PLATFORMY EDUKACYJNEJ",
  "buyerName": "Gdańskie Centrum Informatyczne",
  "buyerNames": ["Gdańskie Centrum Informatyczne"],
  "buyerCountry": "POL",
  "buyerCountries": ["POL"],
  "buyerCity": "Gdańsk",
  "cpvMain": "72250000",
  "cpvCodes": ["72250000", "72230000", "72611000"],
  "placeOfPerformance": ["PL634", "POL"],
  "estimatedValue": null,
  "estimatedValueCurrency": null,
  "estimatedValueSource": null,
  "tenderDeadline": "2026-11-17T10:00:00+01:00",
  "publicationDate": "2026-11-03",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "formType": "competition",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "contractNature": "services",
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/763816-2026",
  "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/763816-2026/pdf",
  "xmlUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/763816-2026/xml",
  "source": "TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu), (c) European Union",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T12:09:44+00:00"
}

• estimatedValue uses the procedure-level value. If that is missing, it uses the framework value, and otherwise the sum of the lot values when all lots share one currency. estimatedValueSource tells you which one was used. A value that TED publishes as 0, meaning not disclosed, is output as null.
• tenderDeadline is the earliest deadline across lots. When TED gives a date with no time, only the date is output.

The Actor also writes a RUN_SUMMARY record to the run's default key-value store. It holds the TED query used, the total matches on TED, the number of notices scanned, delivered and skipped, the number of TED requests, and the duration.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Actor start (apify-actor-start, Apify default, per GB of memory)	$0.00005
tender-notice: one normalised notice written to the dataset	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000)

You pay only for notices that are delivered. Notices skipped in only-new mode, or removed by the value or open filters, are free. You can cap the cost of any run with Apify's "maximum cost per run" setting.

Scheduling alerts

1. Save a task with your filters and onlyNew: true.
2. Schedule it, for example daily.
3. Connect an integration (e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to the dataset.

Each run then delivers only notices that were not delivered before. The state is kept per filter combination in the named key-value store eu-ted-tender-monitor-state, under STATE-<hash> or under your own stateKey. It remembers the most recent 50,000 notice numbers. Delete that record to start again.

Data source, terms and attribution

• Source: TED Search API v3 (POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search). It is anonymous and needs no API key. Docs: https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/latest/index.html. OpenAPI spec: https://api.ted.europa.eu/api-v3.yaml.
• Reuse: TED data may be reused free of charge, including commercially, under the Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj/eng). See also the TED legal notice https://ted.europa.eu/en/legal-notice and the data-reuse help page https://ted.europa.eu/en/help/data-reuse. Acknowledge the source and do not distort the data. Every item carries a source attribution field.
• Fair use: TED publishes fair-use limits for re-users at https://ted.europa.eu/en/simap/developers-corner-for-reusers. The Actor makes at most 2 requests per second to TED, one run at a time. It backs off and retries on HTTP 429 and 5xx responses, and fetches up to 100 notices per request.
• Disclaimer: this Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Publications Office of the European Union. The official notice on TED is the legally binding version, so always check it before you bid.

Personal data

Notices can contain names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of contact persons. These are personal data under the GDPR. The Actor never requests those fields from TED, so they cannot appear in the output. Buyer organisation names and cities are output because they identify public bodies. You remain responsible for how you process the data you receive.

Limitations

• No currency conversion. The value filter compares only values in valueCurrency. Other currencies are excluded unless includeWithoutValue is on.
• The value and open-for-submission filters run after the TED search. The Actor may therefore scan more notices than it delivers, up to 50,000 per run. Those notices are not charged.
• Many notices publish no estimated value, so a minimum-value filter can remove a large share of the results. In the test run, 8 of 20 notices had a value.
• buyerCountry is the lead buyer. Joint procurements list every buyer in buyerCountries, and the country filter matches any of them.
• Full-text keyword matching is done by TED and covers the whole notice text.
• Notices are returned newest first, sorted by publication number.

Run locally

python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
apify run --input='{"keywords":["software"],"lastNDays":7,"maxItems":20}'
# or simulate pay-per-event pricing (optional max charge in USD):
./run_local.sh 0.05
# offline unit tests
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests