Swedish Public Procurement Radar (TED)

Verified official source - never hallucinated. Every tender this Actor returns comes live from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the EU's official procurement database - not from an AI summary, not from a scraped portal, not from a stale index.

Why this Actor?

The Swedish public sector buys for hundreds of billions of SEK every year, and the tenders are announced in TED. LLMs know nothing about tenders published yesterday, generic AI web search cannot reliably list what is open right now, and scraping procurement portals breaks constantly. This Actor queries TED's official open API directly and returns clean, structured results your sales agent or monitoring workflow can act on - deadline-sorted, Sweden-locked and deterministic.

Features

• Find active Swedish public procurement tenders - open notices from the official EU database, sorted most-urgent-deadline first.
• Search Swedish government tenders by CPV code (e.g. 72 = IT services, 45 = construction) - 2 to 8 digits, broad or precise.
• Search public tenders by keyword - free text, sanitised before it reaches TED's query language (injection-safe).
• Filter tenders by Swedish region - optional NUTS code, e.g. SE11 for Stockholm.
• Get buyer, deadline and the official notice link for every hit - everything a bid/no-bid decision needs, in one JSON row.
• Sweden-locked at the query level - the search always filters on Swedish buyers and cannot be tricked into other markets.
• Live at the source, no AI in the loop - same query, same behaviour, fetched from TED at search time.

Use cases

• Daily tender monitoring for your industry: schedule one search per CPV category you sell into and get new tenders to webhook, e-mail or your CRM (about $12/month for a daily radar).
• Sales agents that hunt public contracts: let an AI agent watch procurement in your niche and draft a bid/no-bid summary per tender.
• Bid management pipelines: feed deadline-sorted tenders straight into your task system so nothing expires unnoticed.
• Market analysis: which Swedish authorities are buying what, and how often - grounded in official notices.
• Consultancy and reseller prospecting: a fresh, legal source of high-intent leads (a published tender is a budget with a deadline).

Input

{
    "cpvCode": "72",
    "keywords": "cloud",
    "region": "SE11",
    "onlyActive": true,
    "maxResults": 20
}

Provide cpvCode (2-8 digits) and/or keywords. region is an optional Swedish NUTS code (SE11 = Stockholm). Max 50 results per search.

Output (dataset items)

{
    "title": "Sverige - IT-tjänster - Nytt verksamhetssystem",
    "buyer": "Exempelstads kommun",
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "72268000"],
    "tenderDeadline": "2026-08-15",
    "published": "2026-07-01",
    "publicationNumber": "111111-2026",
    "tedUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/sv/notice/-/detail/111111-2026",
    "source": "TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu)"
}

Always verify deadlines and requirements in the official notice (the tedUrl link) before submitting a bid.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price	When
procurement-search	$0.40	Per successful search (up to 50 results)

One search returns up to 50 tenders - $0.40 flat, not per result. Invalid searches are free. A daily monitoring schedule costs about $12/month; twice daily about $24/month. No subscription, no minimum. Compare that with commercial tender-alert services that start at thousands of SEK per year for the same public notices.

Tip: combine with Apify Schedules to get a daily radar for your CPV categories, delivered to webhook, e-mail or your own agent.

FAQ

How do I find Swedish government tenders for free? The notices are public on ted.europa.eu, but the search UI is built for humans, not pipelines. This Actor gives you the same official data as structured JSON for $0.40 per search - cheap enough to automate daily.

Which tenders are included? Everything Swedish in TED: tenders above the EU thresholds plus voluntarily published ones. Small below-threshold Swedish tenders may be missing - that is a property of the source, stated honestly.

What is a CPV code? The EU's common procurement vocabulary - a numeric taxonomy of what is being bought. Two digits is a whole sector (72 = IT services); more digits narrow it down. You can combine a CPV filter with keywords.

Can I get notified about new tenders automatically? Yes: put this Actor on an Apify Schedule and attach a webhook or e-mail integration. New results land in your inbox, Slack or CRM without any manual searching.

Can my AI agent use this? Yes - via the Apify API or MCP. The output is compact JSON with the official notice link, so the agent can cite its source instead of guessing what might be procured somewhere.

Is the data really live? Every search hits TED's Search API v3 at run time. If a notice was published this morning and matches your query, it is in your results.

Privacy (GDPR by design)

Contact persons and other personal data that may appear in notices are never requested from the source and never returned - organisation- level data only.

Permissions & security

This Actor runs with Apify's limited permissions model: it reads its own input, writes to its own default dataset and calls TED's open API over HTTPS - nothing else. No API key is needed anywhere, and it requests no access to your other Actors, storages or account data.

Data source & license

Data comes from TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu), the official journal of EU public procurement, via its open Search API v3. Reuse is free, including for commercial purposes, under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the notice metadata license is CC0 1.0. TED is credited as the source in every result. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Union.

Terms of use

• Business use only. This Actor is intended exclusively for use in the course of business (B2B). By using it you confirm you are acting as a business, not a consumer.
• As is. The service and all data are provided "as is", without warranties of any kind - no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness or availability. A missed tender or deadline based on data from this service is not compensated.
• Liability cap. Total aggregate liability for all claims in any 12-month period is limited to the amount you paid for the service in that period. No liability for indirect or consequential damages, lost profits, lost business opportunities (including missed bid deadlines) or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
• Fair use. No bulk re-selling of raw data, no circumventing rate limits, no use that violates TED's terms.

Versioning & support

Versions are locked - the Actor never silently changes behaviour under you. Changes are released as new versions with a changelog entry.

Part of the Swedish Data Tools family: company lookup, company financials, new company registrations, public procurement search and official statistics - all built on official Swedish and EU data sources.

Changelog

• 0.1 - initial release: CPV/keyword/region search of active Swedish tenders on TED, deadline-sorted, pay-per-search pricing.