EU TED tenders monitor

Collect procurement notices from the anonymous TED Search API v3. Filter by CPV prefix, buyer country, notice type, and keywords. Each filter list matches any entry. Different filters combine with AND.

Run

Install with npm install, edit storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json, and run npm start. Run offline tests with npm test.

The sample requests up to five notices from the last two days for Germany or France with CPV prefixes 72 or 48. Dates use UTC. The cutoff is inclusive.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
lookbackDays	2	Publication lookback, 1 to 365 days
cpvCodes	[]	CPV prefixes, 1 to 8 digits
countries	[]	ISO3 buyer-country codes such as DEU and FRA
noticeTypes	[]	Exact types such as cn-standard and can-standard
keywords	[]	Case-insensitive substrings in title or buyer organisation name
language	eng	Three-letter language code, otherwise first available language
onlyNew	true	Emit new and changed notices; false also emits unchanged notices
maxItems	100	Maximum emitted records, 1 to 10000
stateStoreName	eu-ted-tenders-monitor-state	Persistent history for this monitor

The API query uses publication-date>=YYYYMMDD, classification-cpv IN (72000000 48000000), and buyer-country IN (DEU FRA). CPV clauses are sent only when every supplied code has eight digits. Shorter prefixes are checked locally against the date and country result set. Notice types and keywords are also checked locally. Broad searches may reach the page cap before finding all matches.

Requests use iteration pagination with up to 250 notices per page and a hard cap of 100 pages. Requests run sequentially, at least one second apart. HTTP 429 and 5xx responses retry up to three times with exponential backoff and Retry-After. Requests time out after 30 seconds. API timeouts, malformed responses, and repeated pagination tokens fail the run and appear in RUN_SUMMARY.

Output and history

Records contain publicationNumber, title, buyerName, buyerCountry, cpvCodes, noticeType, publishedDate, deadline, estimatedValue, currency, placeOfPerformance, noticeUrl, pdfUrl, source, license, checkedAt, changeType, and changedFields.

Countries, CPV codes, locations, and changed fields are arrays. Missing scalar values are null. Repeated codes are removed. publishedDate is YYYY-MM-DD. deadline is the earliest reported lot deadline with its original offset. Monetary values sum lot estimates when all supplied amounts are numeric and share one currency; otherwise they use total-value. Different currencies are never added or converted. Total-value can be an award value, so the output is not always a pre-award estimate.

State is a publication-number map of SHA-256 fingerprints and field snapshots under NOTICES in the named key-value store. Only successful charged pushes update history. checkedAt and change metadata do not affect fingerprints. First appearances have changeType: "new" and an empty changedFields array. Later differences produce changed and the names of differing fields. Reordered code arrays do not count as changes. Unchanged records are suppressed by default.

Use a different state store for independent filters or languages. Updates are detected only when their publication date remains inside the lookback window. A crash between a dataset push and a state write can repeat that result on restart. Each pushed record uses the PPE event result.

The default key-value store contains RUN_SUMMARY, including fetched, eligible, and pushed counts, API page count, query, totalNoticeCount, charge-limit status, errors when present, and stoppedAtPageCap when the cap ends pagination. Fetched counts include records examined before the result limit stops the run.

Source attribution and licence

Source: TED, Publications Office of the European Union, © European Union.

Each record carries Reuse permitted (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU); © European Union. The TED legal notice permits commercial and non-commercial reuse of procurement notices unless otherwise noted. Specific content may require additional rights clearance. This actor does not use TED logos and outputs buyer organisation names without contact-person fields. See TERMS.md for the checked terms and operational requirements.

Verification fixtures

test/fixtures/ted-search_iter.json and ted-page2.json contain real API responses saved on 2026-10-21 with trimmed titles and links. They are response-shape fixtures, not a guaranteed consecutive cursor sequence. Tests stub HTTP and use temporary local storage. For a local fixture run, preload scripts/offline-fetch.mjs with node --import ./scripts/offline-fetch.mjs src/main.js and point both CRAWLEE_STORAGE_DIR and APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR at a temporary directory containing the sample INPUT. Network probes and the live local run were intentionally deferred to the reviewer because this workspace has no network.