UK & EU Tenders Scraper: TED + Contracts Finder

UK, EU & US Tenders Scraper: Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, TED and SAM.gov

Get new public tenders from the UK, the EU and the US in one clean table, every day, straight from four official sources:

• UK Find a Tender: the UK's main service for higher-value public contracts.
• UK Contracts Finder: lower-value UK contracts.
• TED (Tenders Electronic Daily): the EU's official journal of public procurement, covering EU and EEA countries.
• SAM.gov: US federal contract opportunities (solicitations, presolicitations, sources sought).

This tenders scraper turns government contract notices into rows you can filter, schedule and send to Excel, Google Sheets, Slack, email or your CRM. Use it for daily bid alerts, public sector sales leads and procurement market research.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the EU Publications Office (TED), the UK Cabinet Office (Find a Tender), Crown Commercial Service (Contracts Finder) or the US General Services Administration (SAM.gov). It reads their public data services.

Why use this UK and EU tenders scraper

• UK, EU and US in one feed. Most tools cover only the UK, only TED or only SAM.gov. Here every notice has the same fields whatever the source, so one search covers three markets.
• Big and small UK contracts. Find a Tender and Contracts Finder together cover the large framework contracts and the small local ones.
• Daily tender alerts with watch mode. Turn on Only new notices and you get each tender once, never again. You only pay for new rows.
• Filters that match how bid teams work. Filter by keyword, CPV code (the whole CPV family is matched) and buyer country.
• No API key, no login, no proxies. It uses only official open data.
• Cheap and predictable. $2 per 1,000 notices, with no start fee.

What data you get

One row per notice, with the same fields for all three sources:

Field	Example	Notes
sourceName	UK Find a Tender	EU TED, UK Find a Tender, UK Contracts Finder or US SAM.gov
noticeId	106389-2026	Notice number on the source
title	Purchase & Installation of Multibeam Echosounder System	English title for TED when TED provides one
description	The Scottish Ministers, Marine Directorate invites tenders…	UK and US, up to 1,000 characters
buyerName	Scottish Government	The contracting authority (for SAM.gov, the federal agency)
buyerCountry	GBR	ISO 3-letter code (FRA, DEU, IRL, GBR, USA…)
buyerCity	Aberdeen	UK and US
cpvCodes	["38114000", "38110000"]	Common Procurement Vocabulary codes (empty for SAM.gov)
deadline	2026-12-09T12:00:00Z	Deadline for tenders (TED: earliest lot deadline)
valueAmount / currency	120000 / GBP	Estimated contract value, when the buyer published one (UK)
noticeType	cn-standard, tender or Solicitation	TED notice type, UK stage or SAM.gov notice type
status, mainCategory, procurementMethod	active, goods, open	UK only
publishedAt	2026-11-09T16:18:18Z	Publication date
url	https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/106389-2026	Official notice page
scrapedAt	2026-11-10T07:00:12Z	When the row was collected

Contact people (names, emails, phone numbers) are never collected. Emails and phone numbers inside notice descriptions are removed, so you get organisation-level data only.

Ready-made searches

Open one, click Try for free, and change the keywords or countries to fit your market:

• UK IT and software tenders
• UK construction tenders
• EU IT and software tenders
• EU construction tenders (CPV 45)
• Irish public tenders
• French public tenders (appels d'offres)
• German public tenders (Ausschreibungen)

How to get daily tender alerts in 3 steps

1. Pick the sources (all four by default) and add keywords (for example software, cleaning, solar), CPV codes (for example 72000000 for IT services) and buyer countries (for example GBR, IRL, FRA). Leave a filter empty to get everything.
2. Turn on Only new notices, give the search a watchlist name, and set Days back to 2.
3. Add a daily schedule in Apify Console, then send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Make, Zapier or n8n. You can also download them as Excel, CSV or JSON.

How much it costs

You pay $2.00 per 1,000 notices (pay per result), plus Apify's small platform fee. You are never charged for notices removed by your keywords, CPV codes or countries. In watch mode you are not charged for notices you have already received.

For example, a daily run that returns 40 new notices costs about $0.08, or about $2.40 a month. Set Max results to cap the cost of any run.

Input example

{
    "sources": ["ted", "uk-find-a-tender", "uk-contracts-finder", "us-sam-gov"],
    "keywords": ["software", "data platform"],
    "cpv_codes": ["72000000", "48000000"],
    "countries": ["GBR", "IRL", "NLD"],
    "days_back": 2,
    "only_new": true,
    "watchlist_name": "it-uk-ireland-nl",
    "max_items": 200
}

Input	Default	What it does
sources	all four	ted, uk-find-a-tender, uk-contracts-finder, us-sam-gov
keywords	none	Keep notices whose title, description or buyer contains one of the words
cpv_codes	none	Keep notices in these CPV families (8-digit codes; 72000000 = all IT services). SAM.gov notices have no CPV codes and are left out when this is set
countries	none	Keep buyers in these countries (ISO 3-letter codes; UK and US accepted)
days_back	2	Notices published in the last N days (1-60)
only_new	off	Watch mode: return only notices not returned before for this watchlist
watchlist_name	default	Separate memory per search
include_awards	off	Also return contract award notices (who won)
max_items	100	Stop after this many notices
max_pages_per_source	20	Safety limit, pages of 100 notices per source

Output example

{
    "source": "uk-find-a-tender",
    "sourceName": "UK Find a Tender",
    "noticeId": "106389-2026",
    "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-07b7f5",
    "title": "Purchase & Installation of Multibeam Echosounder System",
    "description": "The Scottish Ministers, Marine Directorate invites tenders for the purchase and installation of replacement for the underwater components of a Teledyne Reson T50 multibeam system…",
    "buyerName": "Scottish Government",
    "buyerCountry": "GBR",
    "buyerCity": "Aberdeen",
    "noticeType": "tender",
    "status": "active",
    "mainCategory": "goods",
    "procurementMethod": "open",
    "cpvCodes": ["38114000", "38110000", "38000000"],
    "publishedAt": "2026-11-09T16:18:18Z",
    "deadline": "2026-12-09T12:00:00Z",
    "valueAmount": 120000,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/106389-2026",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T07:00:12.412Z"
}

Use the tenders API with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). Ask your agent, for example: "Find new UK and Irish IT tenders published in the last 2 days with a deadline after next week". The input and output schemas are typed, so agents can call it without extra instructions.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape public tenders? Yes. This Actor reads official public data that the EU, the UK and the US publish. TED data may be reused under the EU Publications Office's reuse policy, UK notice data is published under the Open Government Licence, and SAM.gov data is US federal government information. It collects organisation-level facts only, never contact people. Check the terms that apply to your own use of the data.

What is the difference between Find a Tender and Contracts Finder? Find a Tender (FTS) is the UK's main service for higher-value public contracts. Contracts Finder lists lower-value UK contracts. Using both gives the widest UK coverage. Since Brexit, UK tenders are no longer published on TED, so you need the UK sources and TED to cover both the UK and the EU.

What is SAM.gov? SAM.gov is where US federal agencies publish contract opportunities. This Actor returns solicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, presolicitations and sources-sought notices that are still active (and award notices if you turn them on). US notices use NAICS codes, not CPV, so filter them with keywords.

What is TED? Tenders Electronic Daily is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. Contracting authorities in EU and EEA countries publish their above-threshold tenders there.

Which CPV code should I use? Use the broad family code to catch everything below it. For example, 72000000 covers all IT services, 45000000 all construction work, 90900000 cleaning services and 79000000 business services. The Actor matches every sub-code of the code you give.

Which notices do I get? By default you get open calls for tenders and planned procurements (prior information notices). Turn on Include award notices to also get contract awards (who won and for how much).

Why are some TED titles not in English? TED titles combine the country, the sector and the buyer's own title. The buyer's part stays in its original language when TED has no English version.

It stopped working or returns nothing. The public APIs are sometimes slow or down for maintenance. The Actor retries, and the run status tells you which source failed. If it keeps failing, open an issue on the Issues tab and we will fix it.

Can you add a country or a field? Yes. Open an issue with the national portal or field you need.

Changelog

See the Changelog tab.