Belgian & EU Tenders Monitor (TED)

Find new public tenders from the official EU database TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), with a focus on Belgium. Filter by keyword (in Dutch, French or English), country, CPV sector, contract type and estimated value. Turn on "Only new since last run" and schedule it daily to get an alert for every new opportunity, for example in Google Sheets, Slack or email via n8n, Make or Zapier.

• ✅ Official EU open data (TED Search API), no login, no CAPTCHA, no scraping of HTML
• ✅ Clean, flat rows: title, buyer, sector codes, value, deadline, link
• ✅ Dutch / French / English titles with automatic language fallback
• ✅ "Only new" mode for daily alerts, no duplicates
• ✅ No personal data: contact names, e-mails and phone numbers are never collected

What can you use it for?

• Companies that bid on government contracts: get every relevant Belgian tender in your inbox each morning.
• Consultants and tender services: monitor several sectors (CPV codes) and countries at once.
• Analysts and journalists: export tenders by sector, region and value for research.

How to use it

1. Enter one or more keywords (e.g. schoonmaak, nettoyage, cleaning) or CPV codes (e.g. 90910000).
2. Keep Buyer countries on BEL, or add others (NLD, FRA, DEU, ...).
3. Choose how many days back to search.
4. Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.
5. For daily alerts: turn on Only new since last run and create a Schedule (e.g. every morning at 7:00).

Input example

{
    "keywords": ["schoonmaak", "nettoyage", "cleaning"],
    "countries": ["BEL"],
    "cpvCodes": [],
    "contractNature": ["services"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "onlyOpen": true,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "preferredLanguage": "nld",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Field	Default	Meaning
keywords	[]	Any of these words must appear in the notice. Max 20.
countries	["BEL"]	3-letter ISO codes of the buyer's country. Empty = all countries.
cpvCodes	[]	8-digit CPV sector codes.
contractNature	all	works, services, supplies.
publishedWithinDays	7	Only notices published in the last X days (1-365).
onlyOpen	true	Only calls for competition with a deadline that has not passed (no award notices). Off = full TED archive.
minValue / maxValue	empty	Estimated value in EUR. Notices without a published value are skipped when you use these.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	false	Only return tenders that an earlier run with the same search did not return yet.
preferredLanguage	nld	Language for title and buyer name (fallback: eng, fra, deu, nld, any).
maxResults	100	Maximum rows (and maximum cost) per run.

Output example

{
    "publicationNumber": "612345-2026",
    "title": "Schoonmaak van administratieve gebouwen",
    "titleLanguage": "nld",
    "buyerName": "Stad Antwerpen",
    "buyerCountry": "BEL",
    "noticeType": "cn-standard",
    "contractNature": "services",
    "cpvCodes": ["90910000", "90911200"],
    "placeOfPerformance": ["BE211"],
    "estimatedValue": 450000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-06",
    "deadline": "2026-11-12",
    "deadlineType": "tender",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/612345-2026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T08:00:00.000Z"
}

(Illustrative example, not a real tender.) Missing values are always null (or an empty list), never left out. deadline is the earliest deadline over all lots. deadlineType says what it is for: tender (submit your tender) or request (two-stage procedure: request to participate first).

Pricing

Pay per result: $4 per 1,000 tenders ($0.004 per tender). You only pay for tenders that end up in your dataset. Duplicates and invalid notices are never charged, and a run that fails before delivering results costs nothing. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Free Apify plan: a run returns at most 10 tenders. Upgrade to a paid Apify plan to get all results.

Integrations

Use the Actor from n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or the Apify API. A ready-made n8n workflow (daily → Google Sheets) is available from the author.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. TED is the official EU publication of public procurement notices and offers a public search API for re-use. The Actor uses that API, respects its fair-use limits (max 1 request per second) and collects no personal data.

Why do I not see small Belgian tenders? TED only contains tenders above the EU thresholds (and some voluntary publications). Smaller Belgian tenders are published only on the Belgian e-Procurement platform, which this Actor does not cover (yet).

Why are some values empty? Many notices do not publish an estimated value (in our test on real Belgian data only about 1 in 10 did) or a deadline. The Actor returns null instead of guessing.

What is a CPV code? The EU's sector classification. Examples: 90910000 cleaning services, 72000000 IT services, 45000000 construction work. Search the full list on ted.europa.eu.

How does "Only new since last run" work? The Actor remembers (per search) which tenders it already returned and skips those next time. Change a filter and it counts as a new search.

Limitations

• Only TED (EU-level) notices; no national-only platforms.
• Results depend on the TED API. If TED changes its data format, some fields may become empty until the Actor is updated.
• Keyword search uses TED's full-text search; the characters " and \ are removed from keywords.
• Value filters only compare amounts in EUR.

Support

Found a problem or need a custom field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.