Public Tenders Search: UK, EU TED & SAM.gov Contract Notices

Search live public procurement notices from the UK, the EU and (with your own free key) the US in one schema, for bid managers, government contractors, consultancies and AI agents. It costs $0.004 per notice, so 250 notices cost $1.

One search across the big public procurement feeds, normalized into one schema: UK Contracts Finder (notices over £12k in England, Wales and Northern Ireland), UK Find a Tender (high-value notices), the EU's TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) and, with your own free key, US SAM.gov. Filter by keyword, CPV code, notice type, country and publication date; get buyer, value, deadline, CPV codes and direct links per notice.

Built and maintained by Lathewright. Lathewright is operated by AI systems under human ownership. A person reviews and approves everything we publish, send and sell. $0.004 per notice.

Why bid teams and agents use it

• Daily opportunity feed: schedule with publishedFrom = yesterday and your keywords or CPV prefixes; push new rows into a CRM, Slack or a bid tracker.
• One schema for four sources: title, buyerName, buyerCountry, valueAmount, valueCurrency, deadline, cpvCodes, url, the same for every source, so an agent can rank opportunities without parsing four formats.
• Awards intelligence: set noticeTypes: ["award"] to see who won what and for how much (competitor and pricing research).
• Pipeline: noticeTypes: ["planning"] returns prior-information and pipeline notices before the tender opens.

Example tasks

Paste any of these into the Input tab, or send the same JSON through the API. Prices are the per-result prices listed under Pricing.

1. UK software and cloud tenders from the last week

{
  "sources": ["uk-contracts-finder", "uk-find-a-tender"],
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-10-14",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50
}

What comes back: One row per notice with source, noticeType, publishedAt, deadline, title, buyerName, valueAmount, valueCurrency and url. Up to 100 rows, at most $0.40.

2. EU IT services tenders in Germany and the Netherlands

{
  "sources": ["eu-ted"],
  "cpvPrefixes": ["72"],
  "tedCountries": ["DEU", "NLD"],
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50
}

What comes back: TED notices whose CPV code starts with 72 (IT services).

3. US cybersecurity opportunities on SAM.gov

{
  "sources": ["us-sam-gov"],
  "samGovApiKey": "YOUR_SAM_GOV_API_KEY",
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "samNaicsCodes": ["541512"],
  "maxResultsPerSource": 25
}

What comes back: SAM.gov notices for NAICS 541512, fetched with your key.

Input

Field	Type	Notes
sources	array	uk-contracts-finder, uk-find-a-tender, eu-ted, us-sam-gov
keywords	array	Any-match on title and description (TED: full-text search server-side)
cpvPrefixes	array	e.g. 72 IT services, 48 software, 45 construction, 79 business services, 85 health
noticeTypes	array	tender (default), award, planning
publishedFrom, publishedTo	YYYY-MM-DD	Default: last 7 days
tedCountries	array	ISO-3 buyer countries for TED (DEU, FRA, NLD…)
samGovApiKey	secret	Free key from sam.gov (Account Details > API Key); required for us-sam-gov
samNaicsCodes	array	NAICS filter for SAM.gov
maxResultsPerSource	integer	Cap per source

{
  "sources": ["uk-contracts-finder", "uk-find-a-tender", "eu-ted"],
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud", "data platform"],
  "cpvPrefixes": ["72", "48"],
  "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-10-13",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 100
}

Output

{
  "source": "uk-find-a-tender",
  "noticeId": "098107-2026",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-078b22",
  "noticeType": "tender",
  "title": "British Sign Language Customer Information Service",
  "description": "The Rail Delivery Group is seeking a supplier to...",
  "status": "active",
  "buyerName": "Rail Delivery Group",
  "buyerCountry": "GB",
  "buyerRegion": "UKI",
  "buyerContactEmail": "procurement@raildeliverygroup.com",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "category": "services",
  "valueAmount": 1000000,
  "valueCurrency": "GBP",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T12:02:11+01:00",
  "deadline": "2026-12-08T12:00:00Z",
  "deadlinePassed": false,
  "suitableForSme": true,
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/098107-2026"
}

TED rows add tedNoticeType (e.g. cn-standard) and a pdfUrl; SAM.gov rows add solicitationNumber, naicsCode, setAside and samNoticeType.

Pricing

Event	Price
Notice found (tender)	$0.004

Plus Apify's start fee ($0.00005). 100 notices = $0.40. Notices filtered out by your keywords or CPV codes are never charged.

How to use it

• Console: fill in the form, Start, export CSV/JSON/Excel.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lathewright~public-tenders-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<token>
• n8n / Make / Zapier: Apify node → this Actor on a daily schedule → new rows to your pipeline; dedupe on source + ocid.

Use from an AI agent (MCP)

Add this Actor as a tool in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client with https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lathewright/public-tenders-search. The Actor description is the tool description, and the input fields above are the tool parameters. Example prompts: "Find UK public tenders for cloud or software published this week with deadlines", "Which German or Dutch IT services tenders on TED close this month?".

Data sources and fair use

• Contracts Finder and Find a Tender OCDS APIs (Open Government Licence v3), no key.
• TED Search API v3 (EU open data, reuse permitted with source attribution), no key for search.
• SAM.gov Get Opportunities public API, your own free key; SAM's daily request quota applies to your key.
• The Actor sends at most two requests per second per source. Buyer contact emails are the official procurement contacts published in the notices; no names are stored.

FAQ

Why do some tenders show deadlinePassed: true? Buyers republish or update notices after the deadline; the row still appears on its new publication date. Filter on deadlinePassed in your workflow.

Can I search by CPV on SAM.gov? SAM uses NAICS, not CPV; use samNaicsCodes.

Does keyword matching work on non-English TED notices? TED full-text search matches in the notice's original language; use local-language keywords for the best recall.