Public Tenders Scraper: UK, EU TED, Australia & US Procurement

Get government tenders and contract awards from several countries in one clean, normalized dataset: UK Find a Tender Service, UK Contracts Finder, EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, all EU/EEA countries), AusTender (Australia) and the US (Grants.gov, plus SAM.gov with your own free key).

Filter by keywords, CPV / UNSPSC / NAICS codes, country, amount and status (open or awarded), and switch on "only new notices" to get a daily alert with just what was published since the last run.

The Actor only uses official open-data APIs published by each government (no logins, no scraping of web pages, no proxies).

What does Public Tenders Scraper do?

Public Tenders Scraper collects government tenders, RFPs and contract award notices from official procurement APIs (EU TED, UK Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, AusTender, US Grants.gov and SAM.gov) in one clean schema. Filter by keyword, CPV / UNSPSC / NAICS code, amount, country and status, and use only-new mode for daily tender alerts.

Who is it for?

• B2G suppliers and SMEs that sell to governments in more than one country and are tired of checking five portals every morning.
• Bid consultants and tender agencies that monitor opportunities for many clients (one saved search per client with "Alert name").
• Market intelligence and sales teams: who won which contract, for how much, and which buyers are spending in your category (status "Awarded").
• Researchers and journalists analysing public procurement across countries with one schema.

What you get (one row per notice)

Field	Example
source, sourceName, country	eu-ted, "EU TED", ES
noticeId, referenceNumber, ocid	733607-2026
title, titleOriginal, description	English title (TED) + original-language title
buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerLocation	"Universidad del País Vasco", ES, "Leioa"
category, noticeType, procedureType	services, cn-standard, open
classifications, mainClassification	CPV / UNSPSC / NAICS / PSC codes with scheme
amount, currency, amountKind	318240, EUR, estimated / awarded / award ceiling
amountUsd, amountEur	converted with the day's ECB reference rates
publishedAt, closingAt	ISO 8601 dates (closing = deadline for bids)
status	open, closed, planned, awarded, cancelled
awardedTo, awardDate	winners of awarded contracts
url, apiUrl	official notice page and official machine-readable record
matchedKeywords, isNew, fetchedAt	which of your keywords matched

Every row has the same keys (null when a source does not publish that field), so it drops straight into Google Sheets, Excel, a CRM or a database. A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store shows per-source counts, warnings and errors.

Sources

Source	Country	What it contains	Notes
uk-fts	United Kingdom	Find a Tender Service: higher-value UK public procurement (planning, tenders, awards)	OCDS API, Open Government Licence
uk-contracts-finder	United Kingdom (England)	Contracts Finder: lower-value contracts (from ~£12k / £30k)	OCDS API, Open Government Licence
eu-ted	EU / EEA	TED: all above-threshold notices of the 27 EU countries and more	TED API v3 anonymous search; keyword search runs on the full text in every language
au-austender	Australia	AusTender contract notices (awarded contracts, with supplier and value)	OCDS API, CC BY. The open API does not include open tenders, so Australia only returns results with status "Awarded" or "All"
us-grants	United States	Grants.gov federal funding opportunities (grants and cooperative agreements)	Public API, no key. Grants, not procurement contracts
us-sam	United States	SAM.gov contract opportunities (solicitations, presolicitations, awards)	Needs your own free SAM.gov API key (see below)

UK notices that appear on both Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are de-duplicated (same title + buyer).

How to use it

Daily tender alert (most common)

1. Choose sources, add keywords (and CPV codes if you know them), status Open tenders.
2. Turn on Only new notices since the last run and give the alert a name.
3. Create an Apify Schedule (e.g. every weekday at 08:00) and add an integration: email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or a webhook. Each run returns only notices that were not delivered before, so you only pay for new ones.

Example input

{
  "sources": ["uk-fts", "uk-contracts-finder", "eu-ted", "us-grants"],
  "keywords": ["cyber security", "cybersecurity", "penetration test"],
  "status": "open",
  "daysBack": 2,
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "minAmount": 50000,
  "amountCurrency": "EUR",
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "cyber-alert"
}

Market research on awarded contracts

Status Awarded contracts, a date range of up to 92 days, add au-austender, and filter by UNSPSC / CPV codes to see winners and contract values.

Filters in detail

• Keywords: a notice is kept if any keyword appears in its title, description, buyer or category names (case and accent insensitive). On TED, the official full-text search pre-selects notices and the same title/description check is applied, so boilerplate matches are dropped. TED titles come in English, but descriptions stay in the original language: add translations for non-English countries (software, logiciel, Softwareentwicklung…) or use CPV codes.
• Codes: matched as prefixes, so 72000000 (IT services) also matches 72212000. CPV applies to UK + TED, UNSPSC to AusTender, NAICS to SAM.gov. A source is only filtered by the codes of its own scheme.
• Amount: estimated value for open tenders, awarded value for awards (Grants.gov: award ceiling). Converted with ECB reference rates. Many notices publish no amount: keep or drop them with Keep notices without a published amount.
• Status: open (closing date not passed), open-and-planned (adds prior information / forecast notices), awarded, all.
• Dates: last N days (daysBack) or dateFrom / dateTo (max 92 days per run).

SAM.gov API key (optional)

SAM.gov only answers with a personal API key. It is free: sign in at sam.gov (Login.gov account), open Account Details, and request a Public API Key. Paste it in Your SAM.gov API key (stored as a secret input). Non-federal keys have a small daily request quota, so the Actor asks for 1,000 results per request and does not download descriptions. Without a key, SAM.gov is skipped with a warning and the other sources still run.

Pricing

Pay per event: USD 5 per 1,000 notices in the results (USD 0.005 per notice) plus a small start fee per run. Notices filtered out, duplicates and, with "only new", notices you already received are not charged. The Actor respects your "maximum charge per run".

Limits and good practice

• Requests are spaced out per API (1-2.5 s), with automatic retries and back-off on rate limits (HTTP 429) and server errors. Some UK runs wait up to a minute when the UK service asks to slow down.
• Wide searches without keywords can return thousands of notices per day; use Max notices, Max notices per source and Max API pages per source.
• If one source is down, the others are still saved and the problem is listed in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Data belongs to the publishing governments and is used under their open licences (UK Open Government Licence v3.0, EU TED reuse policy, AusTender CC BY, US public domain). Check each licence before redistributing.

Why use Public Tenders Scraper

• Six official sources in one schema: EU TED, UK Find a Tender, UK Contracts Finder, AusTender, US Grants.gov and (with your free key) SAM.gov.
• Comparable amounts: each notice carries its original amount plus amountUsd and amountEur (ECB rates).
• Daily alerts without duplicates: onlyNew remembers what you already received, per alert name, and does not charge for it again.
• Real filters: keywords, CPV (UK and EU), UNSPSC (Australia), NAICS (SAM.gov), EU countries, status and amount range. Filtered-out notices are not charged.
• Official open APIs only. No scraping of portals that forbid it.

Cost examples

Prices at the current pay-per-event rates (see Pricing). You can set a maximum charge per run in the run options.

Job	Approximate cost
One run with 50 notices	about $0.27 ($0.02 start + 50 x $0.005)
Daily alert with about 20 new notices, one month	about $3.60
1,000 awarded contracts for market research	about $5.02

Use it from your code, an integration or an AI agent

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("latamdatatools/global-public-tenders-monitor").call(run_input={
    "sources": [
        "uk-fts",
        "uk-contracts-finder",
        "eu-ted"
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "software",
        "cyber security",
        "cloud"
    ],
    "status": "open",
    "daysBack": 2,
    "maxItems": 50
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript / Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('latamdatatools/global-public-tenders-monitor').call({
  "sources": [
    "uk-fts",
    "uk-contracts-finder",
    "eu-ted"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "software",
    "cyber security",
    "cloud"
  ],
  "status": "open",
  "daysBack": 2,
  "maxItems": 50
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

No code:

• Schedules: run it daily or weekly from Apify Console (Schedules), with the same input saved as a Task.
• Integrations: send results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Make, Zapier, n8n or Airbyte from the Integrations tab, or call your own webhook when a run finishes.
• AI agents: add it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), so the agent can run Public Tenders Scraper and read the results.

FAQ

Is this the full TED / SAM.gov / Find a Tender database? It searches the official live APIs for the dates you choose (up to 92 days per run). For long historical exports, run several date ranges.

Can I get the tender documents? The url field links to the official notice, where documents are published. Many UK and EU tenders require registering on the buyer's e-procurement portal to download documents.

Why does Australia return nothing with status "Open"? AusTender's open data API only publishes awarded contract notices.

A country I need is missing? Open an issue with the country and the official API, and it will be considered.

How do I get new tenders by email or Slack every morning? Turn on onlyNew, save the input as a Task, add a daily Schedule, and connect the Slack or email integration (or a webhook) to the run's dataset.