# Romanian Public Tenders (TED) (`fintina-lab/romania-tenders`) Actor

Search EU-published public procurement notices for Romania (or other countries) through the official TED API: buyer, CPV, value, deadline, link.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fintina-lab/romania-tenders.md
- **Developed by:** [Fintina Lab](https://apify.com/fintina-lab) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Romanian Public Tenders (TED)

Search public procurement notices published in the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) for Romanian buyers (or any
other country) and get clean, structured records: title, buyer, CPV codes, notice type, estimated value, deadline and
the link to the notice. Data comes straight from the official TED API.

**Free while in beta. From November 2026: $0.005 per notice.**

### What you can use it for

- **Bid finders and consultants:** a daily list of new Romanian tenders in your CPV codes, with deadline and value.
- **B2B sales:** find which public buyers are buying what you sell, and when their contracts are awarded.
- **Market research:** count and size tenders by buyer, sector or period.
- **AI agents:** give an agent reliable procurement facts instead of scraped guesses.

### Input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["software"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72*"],
  "countries": ["ROU"],
  "noticeTypes": ["cn-standard"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

- `keywords`: words or phrases searched in the notice text; a notice matches if it contains any of them. Empty = no keyword filter.
- `cpvCodes` (optional): CPV codes, any match counts. End with `*` for a whole branch (`72*` = IT services).
- `countries`: buyer country, 3-letter ISO codes. Default `["ROU"]`.
- `noticeTypes` (optional): TED notice-type codes, for example `cn-standard` (contract notice), `can-standard`
  (contract award notice), `pin-only` (prior information notice). Empty = all.
- `publishedWithinDays`: default 7. Or set `publicationDateFrom` / `publicationDateTo` (`YYYY-MM-DD`, inclusive), which win over it.
- `maxResults`: default 100, up to 10,000.

### Output (one record per notice)

```json
{
  "publication_number": "721831-2026",
  "title_en": "Romania – Electricity – Achizitia de Energie electrica de medie si joasa tensiune",
  "title_original": "România – Electricitate – Achizitia de Energie electrica de medie si joasa tensiune",
  "buyer_name": "COMPANIA DE TRANSPORT PUBLIC SA Arad",
  "buyer_name_en": null,
  "buyer_country": "ROU",
  "buyer_city": "Arad",
  "cpv_codes": ["09310000"],
  "notice_type": "cn-standard",
  "procedure_type": "open",
  "estimated_value": 495867.77,
  "estimated_value_currency": "RON",
  "estimated_value_basis": "procedure",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-19",
  "deadline": "2026-11-16+02:00",
  "ted_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/721831-2026/html",
  "language": "RON",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-22T07:29:19+00:00"
}
```

(Illustrative record: the shape is from a real run, individual values are not copied from one notice.)

Fields TED did not publish for a notice are `null`, never guessed. Notes:

- `estimated_value` is the procedure's estimated value when TED publishes one (`estimated_value_basis: "procedure"`).
  Otherwise it is the sum of the lot values if they all share one currency (`"sum_of_lots"`), else `null`.
- `deadline` is the earliest lot deadline for submitting tenders. Award notices have none.
- `language` is the notice's original language (ISO 639-2, upper case); `title_original` / `buyer_name` are in it, `title_en`
  is TED's English title.

### Limits

- Up to 10,000 notices per run. The Actor pages through the API (100 per page), waits between requests and retries
  temporary errors (429 and 5xx) with backoff. A 100-notice run takes a few seconds.
- TED publishes notices above the EU thresholds, plus some below. Small national purchases that are never sent to TED
  are not here.
- Data is what TED publishes when you ask. No enrichment, nothing stored after the run.

### Data source and legal note

Official TED Search API (anonymous, read-only): `POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search`

- Docs: https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/latest/search.html
- OpenAPI spec (fields, limits): https://api.ted.europa.eu/api-v3.yaml
- Query language: https://ted.europa.eu/en/search/expert-search

TED's legal notice (https://ted.europa.eu/en/legal-notice) says the procurement notices can be freely reused, for
commercial or non-commercial purposes, under the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission
documents (2011/833/EU). Notices can contain contact details of people at the buyer; use them only for a lawful purpose.
Not affiliated with the European Union or the Publications Office.

### Coming next

Romania's national e-procurement system (SEAP / e-licitatie.ro) also publishes procurement open data on data.gov.ro.
If a licence and format check passes, it may be added as a second source for below-threshold national tenders. Not
included today, and this Actor does not scrape e-licitatie.ro.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Words or phrases searched in the full text of the notice. A notice matches if it contains ANY keyword. Leave empty to list all notices that match the other filters.

## `cpvCodes` (type: `array`):

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, e.g. "72000000" (IT services). A notice matches if it has ANY of these codes. End with \* for a whole branch, e.g. "72\*".

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

Country of the buyer (contracting authority), as 3-letter ISO codes. Default: Romania (ROU).

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

TED notice-type codes, e.g. "cn-standard" (contract notice), "can-standard" (contract award notice), "pin-only" (prior information). Leave empty for all types.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Used when no explicit dates are set below. Default 7.

## `publicationDateFrom` (type: `string`):

Overrides 'last N days'. Inclusive.

## `publicationDateTo` (type: `string`):

Defaults to today. Inclusive.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many notices. Default 100.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "ROU"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `notices` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "software"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "ROU"
    ],
    "publishedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fintina-lab/romania-tenders").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 = {
    "keywords": ["software"],
    "countries": ["ROU"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 30,
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fintina-lab/romania-tenders").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "ROU"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call fintina-lab/romania-tenders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fintina-lab/romania-tenders"
        }
    }
}
```

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/M3kgRnUfDlQU8E82B/builds/lRmGgvQNdRJ3rr6ad/openapi.json