Failed & Relaunched Public Tenders (EU TED + France BOAMP)

Every month, thousands of public procurement lots in Europe close without a winner because nobody bid or every bid was rejected. Most of them come back, often with less competition, and the buyer is sometimes allowed to negotiate directly. This Actor finds the failed lots and the open calls that relaunch them, in every EU country.

Try it now: the default input lists the open relaunch calls and failed lots for France. Change the country to DEU, ITA, ESP, POL… or leave it empty for the whole EU (narrow with CPV prefixes for speed).

What you get

Two kinds of second-chance opportunities, one row each:

Type	Source	What it is
Failed lot	TED (all EU/EEA countries)	A lot closed without a winner in a result notice: no tenders received, all tenders rejected, or (optional) only one admissible tender
Open relaunch call	TED (all EU/EEA countries)	A call for tenders still open today from the same buyer, with the same CPV code and a similar title as a procedure that failed in the last 12 months. Each match is rated high or medium and points to the earlier failed notice
Open relaunch call	BOAMP (France)	A call for tenders still open today that mentions a previous unsuccessful procedure

Each row gives the buyer, country, procedure and lot titles, main CPV code, estimated value and currency when published, the reason, the number of tenders received, whether the buyer plans to relaunch, the deadline (relaunch calls) and a link to the official notice.

Why these opportunities matter

• They have already failed once, often because nobody saw them, the price was too low or the specification too narrow. The relaunch usually draws fewer bidders.
• Under the EU public procurement directive (2014/24/EU, Article 32(2)(a)), when an open or restricted procedure receives no tenders or no suitable tenders, the buyer may use a negotiated procedure without prior publication, provided the initial conditions are not substantially changed. France applies the same rule. A supplier who knows about the failure early can contact the buyer.
• They show where public demand is not being served, by sector and country.

This is not legal advice: rules and practices vary by country and by procedure.

In numbers (1 January to 18 October 2026)

• About 20,000 EU result notices with at least one lot that received no tenders at all (around 110,000 lots), and about 12,500 with all tenders rejected.
• In France: about 530 notices with lots that received no tenders, and about 100 open calls relaunching an unsuccessful procedure on 19 October 2026.
• In Germany on the same day: 134 open calls matched to an earlier failed procedure of the same buyer.
• Sectors most affected: medical and pharmaceutical supplies, repair and maintenance, vehicles, construction, food, cleaning and waste, engineering and testing services, laboratory instruments, software and IT services.

Who it is for

• Suppliers and SMEs looking for contracts with little competition
• Bid writers and procurement consultants
• Vendors and analysts looking for unserved public demand in their sector
• AI agents monitoring procurement (callable through the Apify MCP server)

Input example

{
  "countries": ["FRA", "BEL"],
  "cpvPrefixes": ["72", "48"],
  "keywords": ["logiciel", "plateforme"],
  "daysBack": 60,
  "reasons": ["no-rece", "all-rej"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

• countries: ISO 3166 alpha-3 codes; empty means all EU/EEA countries. French relaunch calls are included when the list is empty or contains FRA.
• cpvPrefixes: e.g. 45 construction, 33 medical, 48 software, 72 IT services, 71 engineering and testing, 90 cleaning and waste.
• keywords: titles are in the language of the notice, so use local-language keywords.
• minEstimatedValue: keeps only failed lots with a published estimated value at least this high.

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Output example

{
  "source": "TED",
  "country": "FRA",
  "buyer": "Société nationale SNCF",
  "noticeId": "710767-2026",
  "published": "2026-10-14",
  "procedureTitle": "Prestations de conditionnement, collecte, et traitement des déchets amiantés",
  "lotTitle": "NORD MANCHE",
  "cpv": "90520000",
  "estimatedValue": 831446,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "reasonCode": "all-rej",
  "reason": "All tenders were rejected",
  "tendersReceived": 2,
  "relaunchPlanned": false,
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/710767-2026"
}

Pricing

You pay per opportunity delivered. Set maxResults or a maximum cost per run to control spending; the Actor stops cleanly at your limit.

Data sources and limits

• TED, the EU's official tenders journal, through its public search API. eForms result notices are covered (from late 2023).
• BOAMP, France's official public procurement bulletin, through the DILA open data service (Licence Ouverte / Etalab).
• Titles and descriptions are in the original language of each notice.
• Estimated values are only available when the buyer published them.
• Relaunch calls are detected by matching (TED: same buyer identifier, same CPV code, similar title, earlier failure) or from the notice text (BOAMP). A medium match is worth a quick check of both notices.
• Data quality depends on what buyers declare in their notices; open the official notice before acting.