Global Tender Alerts: EU TED, UK, Canada and SAM.gov procurement feed

Global Tender Alerts monitors public procurement tenders on official government portals and gives you one clean, de-duplicated JSON feed. Run it on a schedule and it works as a keyword-based tender alert: each run returns only notices you haven't received before, and you only pay for those.

Source	Coverage	Access
🇪🇺 TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)	EU 27 plus EEA, Switzerland and candidate countries, all above-threshold tenders	Official API v3, no key
🇬🇧 Find a Tender Service	UK above-threshold tenders	Official OCDS API, no key
🇬🇧 Contracts Finder	UK below-threshold tenders	Official OCDS API, no key
🇨🇦 CanadaBuys	Government of Canada open tenders	Official open data
🇺🇸 SAM.gov	US federal contract opportunities	Official API, needs your free key

Features

• Keyword alerts with whole-word, accent-insensitive matching, prefix wildcards (cyber*) and exclude words
• CPV code filter using prefix match (72 = IT services, 45 = construction, 48 = software)
• Country filter using ISO-2 codes
• Notice types: open tenders, planned tenders (prior information notices) and contract awards, which are useful for competitor intelligence
• Only-new mode remembers what it already delivered, so you're never charged twice for the same tender
• Cross-source de-duplication: a UK notice published on both Find a Tender and Contracts Finder comes out as one row, with the other listed in alsoPublishedOn
• Filters for open tenders only (deadline not passed) and minimum estimated value
• Normalized output: title, description, buyer, contact email and phone, deadline, value, CPV, procedure and notice URL

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud", "cyber*", "logiciel", "Software"],
  "sources": ["ted", "uk_fts", "uk_cf", "canadabuys"],
  "countries": [],
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "noticeTypes": ["competition"],
  "daysBack": 3,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true
}

Output example

{
  "id": "uk_fts:091204-2026",
  "source": "uk_fts",
  "noticeType": "competition",
  "title": "H&C1025 Sexual Health Services",
  "buyerName": "East Riding of Yorkshire Council",
  "buyerCountry": "GB",
  "buyerContact": {"name": "Peter Allen", "email": "peter.allen@eastriding.gov.uk", "phone": "+44 1482394790"},
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T22:16:45Z",
  "deadline": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z",
  "valueAmount": 8400000,
  "valueCurrency": "GBP",
  "cpvCodes": ["85000000", "85140000", "85141000"],
  "procedureType": "Open procedure",
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091204-2026",
  "alsoPublishedOn": [{"source": "uk_cf", "url": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e2d9dc88-…"}]
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per tender delivered ($5 per 1,000), with no start fee. With a daily schedule and focused keywords, a typical alert costs $1 to $5 a month.

FAQ

Keywords and languages. TED searches the full notice text in its original language, so add local-language terms (for example Software, logiciel, oprogramowanie). UK, Canada and SAM.gov notices are filtered on title, description and buyer name.

SAM.gov key. Sign in at sam.gov, open Account Details and generate a Public API Key. Keys for non-federal users are limited to about 10 requests a day. This Actor uses 1 or 2 requests per run.

Licensing. TED is reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. UK data is under the Open Government Licence v3.0. CanadaBuys is under the Open Government Licence – Canada. SAM.gov data is a US government work in the public domain. Every row includes its license attribution.

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