German Tenders Scraper (oeffentlichevergabe.de)

This German tenders scraper collects public procurement notices from Germany's official federal open-data service Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf (oeffentlichevergabe.de, run by the Beschaffungsamt des BMI). It covers Bund, Länder and Kommunen in one run, including below-threshold national tenders (Unterschwellenvergaben) that never reach TED. Output is normalized to a clean JSON schema, filtered by CPV, keywords and notice type. No API keys, no login, no personal-data scraping.

Why this actor?

The EU-wide TED database only carries tenders above the EU thresholds. A large share of German public spending happens below those thresholds and is published nationally, not on TED. If you only watch TED, you miss it. This actor reads the official German OCDS feed directly, so you see national and sub-threshold opportunities too.

• Official source, CC0 licensed: data comes from the government's own open-data API, released into the public domain.
• Same schema as our EU Tenders Scraper: pipe German, EU (TED) and Dutch (TenderNed) notices into one database without remapping.
• Tenders, awards and planning notices: watch open calls, track who won contracts, or catch prior information notices.

What data does it return?

Every notice is normalized to this structure:

{
  "id": "doe:ocds-mnwr74-8531ca93-ae3a-4311-b0e6-f2dad978e359",
  "source": "doe",
  "title": "Vergabe von Dienstleistungen zum Website-Support",
  "buyer": "KEA Klimaschutz- und Energieagentur Baden-Württemberg GmbH",
  "country": "DEU",
  "cpv_codes": ["72413000"],
  "notice_type": "tender",
  "publication_date": "2026-07-21",
  "deadline": null,
  "url": "https://oeffentlichevergabe.de/ui/de/notice/8531ca93-ae3a-4311-b0e6-f2dad978e359",
  "description": null
}

For award notices the underlying source also carries the winner and contract value.

How to use it

Example input, all fields optional:

{
  "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "keywords": ["cloud", "rechenzentrum"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "mode": "digest"
}

• noticeTypes: tender (open calls), award (who won), planning (prior information). Default tender.
• cpvCodes: prefix match. 72 matches all IT services (72000000...), 45442100 matches exactly. Empty = all categories.
• keywords: case-insensitive match on title and description.
• daysBack: publication window, 1 to 90 days. One bulk download per day.
• mode: search returns the dataset only; digest also writes a ready-to-send markdown summary (grouped by notice type) to the key-value store under the key DIGEST.

Tender monitoring and alerts

Run the actor on a daily or weekly schedule in digest mode and connect an Apify integration (Slack, email, webhook, Make, Zapier) to deliver the DIGEST markdown wherever your team works.

Use cases

• Bid monitoring in Germany: catch national and below-threshold tenders that TED-only tools miss.
• Contract award tracking: set noticeTypes to award to see who is winning public contracts and for how much.
• Market research: track which German public buyers purchase what, where, and how often.
• AI agents: the normalized output makes this actor easy to consume from Claude, Cursor or your own agent stack.

FAQ

Is this allowed? Yes. The data comes from the official German federal open-data API (Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf), released under a CC0 public-domain dedication. This actor uses the documented public API and collects no personal data beyond the organization-level procurement information the government itself publishes.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as the portal: German buyers publish continuously on business days. Run the actor on a schedule to stay current.

Does it cover the whole country? Yes, the service bundles federal, state and municipal notices, including national procedures below the EU threshold.

How does pricing work? Pay per event: a small fee per returned notice, and a flat fee per generated digest. maxItems caps your cost per run.

Can I combine it with EU and Dutch tenders? Yes. This actor shares its output schema with our EU Tenders Scraper (TED + TenderNed), so records merge cleanly.

Related Fetchwerk actors

All Fetchwerk procurement actors share the same normalized output schema, so you can merge them into one pipeline:

• EU Tenders Scraper: EU-wide open calls from TED plus Dutch tenders from TenderNed.
• EU Contract Award Radar: who won which EU public contract, for how much, against how many bidders.
• UK Tenders Scraper: UK public contracts from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, above and below threshold.

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