TED Tenders Scraper: EU public procurement, normalized for people and AI agents

Every public tender published in the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), as one clean JSON row per notice: buyer, CPV codes decoded to English, values converted to EUR with the day's ECB rates, deadline with days left, lots, winners and awarded amounts. Export EU tenders and contract awards to JSON, CSV or Excel, monitor new calls for competition by country and CPV every day, and feed them to Google Sheets, n8n, Make or an AI agent, without learning the TED API or the eForms schema.

TED publishes about 3,000 procurement notices a day from all EU and EEA countries. The official API returns them as sparse, multilingual, per-lot arrays with 1,800 possible fields. This Actor turns that into a flat, predictable schema you can filter, chart or hand to an AI agent without reading the eForms specification.

Who uses it

• Bid managers and tender consultants who need a daily list of new EU tenders in their sector (CPV) and countries, in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Sales teams selling to the public sector who want to know which contracts were awarded, to whom and for how much.
• Analysts and researchers studying procurement volumes, values and winners across the EU.
• AI agents and automations (n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, MCP) that need flat JSON instead of 1,800 eForms fields.

What you get per row

Block	Fields
identity	publication number, notice id, TED page URL, PDF (English) and XML links, publication and dispatch dates, form type (competition, result, planning), notice type, procedure type, contract nature
text	title in the original language (titleLang), titleEn (TED's English headline: country, CPV, title), description
buyer	names, cities, countries (ISO alpha-3), main activity, buyer profile URL
placeOfPerformance	countries and NUTS regions
cpv	every CPV code with its English label, plus cpvDivisions (the 2-digit families, e.g. "Construction work")
lots	title, estimated value, currency, value in EUR, deadline, one entry per lot; lotCount
value	estimated (procedure level or sum of lots), currency, estimatedEur, awarded, awardedEur, ECB rate date
deadline	earliest tender deadline, date-time, daysLeft
award	winners and their countries (result notices)
links	submission portal, documents
extras	SME-suitable flag, contract duration in months, source attribution, scrape timestamp

Input

• Buyer countries: ISO alpha-3 codes (ESP, PRT, ROU, DEU, FRA, ITA…). Empty = all.
• CPV codes or prefixes: 45 (construction), 72 (IT services), 33 (medical), or full 8-digit codes.
• Place of performance (NUTS): e.g. ES70 Canarias, RO32 Bucharest-Ilfov.
• Notice kind: calls for competition (default), results (awards), planning, or all.
• Keywords: full-text search, any language.
• Published in the last N days (default 3) or explicit publishedFrom / publishedTo.
• Expert query: a raw TED expert-search string, for people who know the syntax; overrides the filters.
• Max items (default 500) and Only new since last run (monitoring mode, remembers publication numbers per account).

Examples:

{ "countries": ["ESP", "PRT"], "cpvPrefixes": ["72"], "formType": "competition", "publishedSinceDays": 7 }

{ "countries": ["ROU"], "formType": "result", "publishedFrom": "2026-10-01", "publishedTo": "2026-10-31", "maxItems": 2000 }

{ "nuts": ["ES70"], "formType": "competition", "publishedSinceDays": 1, "onlyNew": true }

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per notice row, charged only after the row is saved. No charge for platform usage. A country like Spain publishes roughly 150 to 250 calls for competition per day, so a daily monitor of one country costs about $0.50 to $0.75 per day; a full month of Spanish contract awards (about 4,000 rows) costs about $12.

Quality and limits

• Every row is validated against a strict schema before it is saved; invalid rows are logged and never charged.
• Measured on real runs (October 2026): 300 notices for Spain and Portugal in 2 seconds, 0 invalid rows; 88 % of competition notices carry an estimated value, 96 % a deadline.
• Values in EUR use the European Central Bank's daily reference rates; when the ECB feed is unavailable, non-EUR values keep their currency and estimatedEur is null.
• Multilingual texts are returned in the notice's original language, with the English headline TED generates in titleEn.
• The TED API rate-limits bursts; the Actor stays at one request per second and retries politely. A page holds 250 notices, so even large monthly extractions take under a minute per thousand rows.
• Personal data: buyer contact persons, phones and emails are intentionally not extracted. Buyers are public bodies; winners are companies.

Attribution and reuse

Data comes from TED, Publications Office of the European Union (https://ted.europa.eu). Notices can be freely reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; keep the attribution in meta.source when you redistribute.

How to use it

In the Apify Console: choose countries and CPV prefixes, press Start, download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

From your code (Apify API):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/islandata~ted-tenders-eu/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries": ["ESP"], "cpvPrefixes": ["72"], "publishedSinceDays": 1}'

In n8n, Make or Zapier: use the Apify node or app, pick islandata/ted-tenders-eu, schedule it daily with onlyNew: true and map the rows to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Slack or email. That is a complete EU tender alert in three nodes.

With an AI agent (MCP): connect the agent to https://mcp.apify.com?tools=islandata/ted-tenders-eu. The schema is flat and small: the agent calls the Actor with a country, a CPV prefix and onlyNew: true, then ranks by value.estimatedEur and deadline.daysLeft.

FAQ

Is this the official TED API? No. It uses the official, free TED Search API and returns its data normalized. You do not need a TED account or API key.

Which countries are covered? All EU member states plus EEA and other countries that publish on TED (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK legacy notices…). Use ISO alpha-3 codes.

Can I get awards (who won) as well as tenders? Yes: formType: "result" returns contract award notices with winners and awarded amounts, when the buyer published them.

Are the values comparable across countries? Yes: estimatedEur and awardedEur use the ECB reference rate of the publication day; the original currency is kept.

Does it include contact persons? No. Buyer organisations are public bodies and are included; contact names, phones and emails are not extracted.

In other languages

• Español: licitaciones públicas de la Unión Europea (TED, Diario Oficial) en JSON, CSV o Excel; una fila por anuncio con códigos CPV descifrados, importes en EUR, plazo con días restantes, lotes y adjudicatarios. Filtra por país, CPV, región NUTS y palabras clave; modo «solo nuevos» para alertas diarias.
• Français: appels d'offres européens (TED, Journal officiel de l'UE) en JSON, CSV ou Excel; une ligne par avis avec codes CPV décodés, montants en EUR, date limite et jours restants, lots et attributaires. Filtrez par pays, CPV, région NUTS et mots-clés; mode « nouveaux uniquement » pour une veille quotidienne.
• Deutsch: EU-Ausschreibungen (TED, Amtsblatt der EU) als JSON, CSV oder Excel; eine Zeile pro Bekanntmachung mit entschlüsselten CPV-Codes, Werten in EUR, Frist mit Resttagen, Losen und Zuschlagsempfängern. Filter nach Land, CPV, NUTS und Stichwörtern; Modus „nur neue“ für tägliche Überwachung.
• Italiano: gare d'appalto europee (TED, Gazzetta ufficiale UE) in JSON, CSV o Excel; una riga per avviso con codici CPV decodificati, importi in EUR, scadenza con giorni rimanenti, lotti e aggiudicatari.
• Português: concursos públicos da UE (TED, Jornal Oficial) em JSON, CSV ou Excel; uma linha por anúncio com códigos CPV descodificados, valores em EUR, prazo com dias restantes, lotes e adjudicatários.
• Română: licitații publice din Uniunea Europeană (TED, Jurnalul Oficial) în JSON, CSV sau Excel; un rând per anunț cu coduri CPV decodate, valori în EUR, termen cu zile rămase, loturi și câștigători. Filtre pe țară, CPV, NUTS și cuvinte-cheie; mod „doar noi” pentru alerte zilnice.