EU Public Procurement Market Stats (TED)

Most TED scrapers give you a pile of notices. This Actor gives you the numbers you would otherwise build in a spreadsheet from that pile: how much was awarded in a sector and country, what a typical contract is worth, how many companies bid, how often only one bid came in, and how often SMEs or foreign suppliers win.

It reads contract award notices and new calls for tender from the official TED Search API (Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's public procurement journal) and returns one row per market segment.

Who it is for

• Bid teams deciding which countries and sectors are worth entering
• Consultancies writing market sizing or go-to-market notes for public sector clients
• Researchers and journalists looking at competition in public buying (single-bid rates are a common red-flag indicator)
• Anyone who wants a monthly view of a market without reading thousands of notices

What you get per row

Field	What it means
segment	The group, for example POL / 72 (Poland, IT services) or 2026-09
cpvDivisionLabel	Plain name of the CPV division
awardNotices	Contract award notices published in the period
totalAwardValueEur	Sum of the notice values, converted to EUR
medianAwardValueEur, p90AwardValueEur, largestAwardValueEur	Typical, large and largest award
avgTendersPerAward	Average number of tenders received
singleBidSharePct	Share of awards where only one tender came in
openProcedureSharePct	Share of awards run as an open procedure
smeWinnerSharePct	Share of winning suppliers flagged as micro, small or medium
crossBorderAwardSharePct	Share of awards with a winner from another country
competitionNotices	New calls for tender in the same segment and period
topBuyers	Biggest contracting authorities by awarded value

A run summary (matched vs analysed notices, exchange rate date, top segments) is saved in the key-value store as SUMMARY.

Example input

{
  "cpvPrefixes": ["72", "48"],
  "buyerCountries": ["DEU", "FRA", "ESP", "POL", "SWE", "NLD"],
  "groupBy": "countryCpv",
  "daysBack": 90
}

This run (tested on 30 October 2026) read 3,809 award notices and 5,967 calls for tender and returned 12 rows, one per country and division, in under a minute.

Other useful set-ups:

• groupBy: "month" with one country and one CPV prefix gives you a trend line
• groupBy: "buyer" lists every contracting authority in a niche with its own stats
• Leave both filters empty and use groupBy: "country" for an EU-wide overview

Things to know before you rely on the numbers

• Values are what buyers publish. Framework agreements often state a maximum ceiling, so a single framework can dominate totalAwardValueEur. Use the median and largestAwardValueEur to spot that.
• Non-EUR values are converted with the latest ECB reference rates. The date is in fxRatesDate.
• A notice is placed in one segment. With a CPV filter it goes to the division that matched your filter. Joint procurements go to the first buyer country in your filter.
• maxNotices caps how many notices are read per type. If the cap cuts the data short, the log says so and SUMMARY.truncated is true.
• Notices published before the eForms switch (late 2023) have fewer structured fields, so some percentages can be empty for older periods.

Data and privacy

The Actor only requests organisation-level and aggregate fields from TED. It never asks for winner names, contact points, email addresses or phone numbers, and it does not store individual notices. Buyers in TED are public bodies. TED data is EU open data and may be reused, including commercially (see the TED legal notice and Commission Decision 2011/833/EU).

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay a small amount per segment row in the dataset, plus the standard Actor start event. Empty runs cost almost nothing. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

Questions or a custom version

Open an issue on the Actor page. Custom procurement datasets or dashboards can be ordered at https://studio.kayorama.nl/custom-web-scraping.