Global Public Tenders & RFP Scraper — EU TED, UK Find-a-Tender, US SAM.gov

Aggregate live government tenders, RFPs and contract opportunities from EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, all 27 EU member states + Norway + Switzerland), UK Find-a-Tender service and US SAM.gov in one normalized JSON feed.

Built on official open APIs — no proxy, no scraping, no anti-bot fight. Filter by keyword, country, CPV / NAICS procurement code, contract nature (works / supplies / services), procedure type, buyer name, value range, deadline and publication date.

Perfect for government contractors, bid management teams, RFP-as-a-service agencies, defense / IT consulting firms, management consultants chasing public-sector work, and procurement intelligence platforms.

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🚀 What does this Tenders scraper do?

Source	What you get	Coverage
TED EU (ted_eu)	Every public-procurement notice published in the EU Official Journal — open calls, award notices, prior information notices, contract modifications	All 27 EU member states + Norway + Switzerland · ~3M notices / year · €2.4 trillion annual public procurement
UK Find-a-Tender (uk_fts)	All UK central + local government contracts above the WTO GPA threshold (~£139k for goods/services, £5.4m for works), in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format	England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland · ~80k notices / year
US SAM.gov (sam_gov)	Every federal contract opportunity, sources-sought notice, presolicitation, award and special notice	US federal government · ~30k active opportunities

Every record is normalized into the same schema — same field names, same units, same ISO date format — so you can filter, dedupe and ship straight to a CRM, BI tool, or Slack alert.

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💡 Use cases

• Bid teams — daily digest of every IT-services tender in DACH + UK + US delivered into Slack
• Procurement-intelligence SaaS — bulk-backfill historical contracts to seed search / analytics
• Government-contractor lead-gen — feed every "open" notice into HubSpot with deadline countdown
• Defense / IT consulting — track every notice with CPV 72* (IT) across the EU + UK + NAICS 541511/541512 in the US
• Grant / EU funding consultancies — sweep TED daily for relevant calls
• M&A and competitive intel — see which contractors are being awarded what, and at what value
• Press / policy research — TED contains every public-sector contract above WTO thresholds in the EU; great for transparency reporting

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⚙️ Input configuration

Common (apply to all sources)

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	string[]	["ted_eu","uk_fts"]	Which portals to query. Mix any of ted_eu, uk_fts, sam_gov.
keywords	string[]	[]	Free-text terms matched against title + description per source. Each term triggers a separate query per source.
publishedFrom	string	last 7 days	Earliest publication date (YYYY-MM-DD).
publishedTo	string	today	Latest publication date (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxResultsPerSource	integer	1000	Hard cap per source. 0 = unlimited (auto-paginates until exhausted).
language	string	"eng"	Preferred language for TED multilingual fields (titles, descriptions, buyer names). Falls back to any available language.

TED EU (ted_eu) — specific

Field	Type	Default	Description
tedCountries	string[]	[]	ISO alpha-3 buyer-country codes: DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP, NLD, POL, BEL, AUT, SWE, DNK, FIN, IRL, PRT, GRC, CZE, ROU, HUN, NOR, CHE, etc.
tedCpvCodes	string[]	[]	Common Procurement Vocabulary codes. Prefix match supported — 72 returns all IT codes, 45 all construction.
tedContractNature	string[]	[]	works / supplies / services.
tedNoticeTypes	string[]	[]	Notice type codes: cn-standard, can-standard, pin-only, cn-social, can-modif, etc.

UK Find-a-Tender (uk_fts) — specific

Field	Type	Default	Description
ukKeywords	string	""	Optional keyword override (UK API supports a single string).

SAM.gov (sam_gov) — specific

Field	Type	Default	Description
samGovApiKey	string	""	Required if sam_gov is enabled. Free, request at https://sam.gov/profile/details (Account Details → API Keys).
samGovNaicsCodes	string[]	[]	NAICS industry codes — 541511 (custom software), 541512 (IT consulting), 541330 (engineering services).
samGovNoticeTypes	string[]	[]	p (Presolicitation), o (Solicitation), k (Combined Synopsis), r (Sources Sought), a (Award), s (Special).

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📦 Output schema (normalized across all sources)

Field	Description	Example
source	"ted_eu", "uk_fts", or "sam_gov"	"ted_eu"
noticeId	Source-native notice identifier	"334744-2026"
noticeType	Native type code	"cn-standard"
noticeSubtype	Sub-classification	"can-standard"
title	Notice title (preferred-language)	"Germany – Industry specific software package..."
titleAllLanguages	TED multilingual title object	{"eng":"...","fra":"...","deu":"..."}
description	Long description	"Beschaffung einer Softwarelösung zur..."
buyerName	Contracting authority name	"ITSCare GmbH"
buyerCountry	ISO alpha-3 (TED), alpha-2 (UK/SAM)	"DEU"
buyerCity	Buyer city	"Berlin"
buyerEmail	Contact email if published	"procurement@..."
placeOfPerformance	Country / region codes	["DEU","BAV"]
procurementType	works / supplies / services	"supplies"
procedureType	Procedure type code	"open"
cpvCodes	CPV codes (TED / UK)	["48100000","72240000"]
naicsCodes	NAICS codes (SAM.gov)	["541511"]
estimatedValueAmount	Estimated value	250000
estimatedValueCurrency	Currency	"EUR"
publishedDate	ISO date	"2026-05-18"
deadlineDate	Submission deadline	"2026-06-15T17:00:00"
lastUpdated	Last revision timestamp	"2026-05-18T08:21:42+01:00"
noticeUrl	Source notice URL	"https://ted.europa.eu/.../334744-2026"
documentUrls	Linked tender docs	["https://.../document.pdf"]
language	Notice language	"eng"
ocidGlobalId	OCDS global ID (UK)	"ocds-h6vhtk-069aa3"
setAside	Set-aside program (SAM.gov)	"SBA"
responseUrl	Where to submit / view	"https://..."
rawSource	Full raw source payload	{...}
scrapedAt	UTC scrape timestamp	"2026-05-18T07:30:00Z"

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🧪 Example inputs

1. Daily IT-services watch across the EU + UK

{
  "sources": ["ted_eu", "uk_fts"],
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud", "cybersecurity"],
  "tedCpvCodes": ["72"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-05-15",
  "publishedTo": "2026-05-18",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 500
}

2. Construction tenders in Germany, France, Italy (this week)

{
  "sources": ["ted_eu"],
  "tedCountries": ["DEU", "FRA", "ITA"],
  "tedCpvCodes": ["45"],
  "tedContractNature": ["works"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-05-12",
  "publishedTo": "2026-05-18",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 2000
}

3. UK central-government contracts mentioning AI

{
  "sources": ["uk_fts"],
  "ukKeywords": "artificial intelligence",
  "publishedFrom": "2026-04-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-05-18",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 500
}

4. US federal IT-services opportunities + EU IT tenders

{
  "sources": ["sam_gov", "ted_eu"],
  "samGovApiKey": "YOUR_KEY_HERE",
  "samGovNaicsCodes": ["541511", "541512", "541519"],
  "samGovNoticeTypes": ["o", "k", "r"],
  "tedCpvCodes": ["72"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-05-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-05-18"
}

5. Historical backfill — every open call in Belgium from Q1 2026

{
  "sources": ["ted_eu"],
  "tedCountries": ["BEL"],
  "tedNoticeTypes": ["cn-standard"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-03-31",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 0
}

6. Multilingual TED with German titles

{
  "sources": ["ted_eu"],
  "tedCountries": ["DEU", "AUT", "CHE"],
  "keywords": ["Beratung"],
  "language": "deu"
}

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🧠 How it works

TED EU (api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search)

• POST with an Expert-Search query string (publication-date>=20260501 AND organisation-country-buyer=DEU AND notice-title=software).
• Field-equality is a substring match by default; combined with AND, OR, NOT, parentheses.
• Pagination via iterationNextToken — actor follows tokens until the source is exhausted or the cap is reached.
• 500+ requestable fields including all BT-* and OPP-* codes per the eForms SDK.
• No authentication.

UK Find-a-Tender (www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0)

• GET OCDS release packages filtered by updatedFrom / updatedTo.
• Output is full Open Contracting Data Standard JSON — parties, tender, items, value, documents.
• Pagination via links.next cursor.
• No authentication.

US SAM.gov (api.sam.gov/prod/opportunities/v2/search)

• GET with api_key, postedFrom, postedTo, title, ncode, ptype and offset pagination.
• Requires a free API key from sam.gov (public tier = 10 req/day, registered = 1,000 req/day).
• Returns full opportunity records with NAICS, set-aside, place of performance and contact info.

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🛑 Limits & notes

• TED is the authoritative EU procurement source — but values are often missing in the notice (filled in only at award).
• TED multilingual fields: titles and descriptions are objects keyed by 3-letter ISO language codes. The normalized title / description picks your preferred language, with titleAllLanguages preserved for downstream pickers.
• TED country codes are ISO alpha-3 (DEU, FRA), not alpha-2.
• UK FTS keyword filtering happens client-side after the OCDS package fetch (the API supports date filtering only).
• SAM.gov without an API key is effectively unusable (10 req / day). The actor skips it gracefully if no key is supplied.
• CPV vs NAICS — different classification systems. Use cpvCodes (TED + UK) and naicsCodes (SAM) appropriately.

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💰 Pricing

Monetized via pay-per-event on Apify — pay per tender notice saved. All upstream APIs are free.

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❓ FAQ

How fresh is the data? All three sources are near-real-time. TED publishes new notices every working day at 5pm CET. UK FTS and SAM.gov update continuously throughout the day.

Can I get the full XML / PDF of a tender? Yes — documentUrls and the rawSource field expose every linked document. For TED, links to PDF/HTML/XML in every EU language are inside rawSource.links.

Does this cover sub-threshold contracts (small council purchases)? No. TED, UK FTS and SAM.gov only publish opportunities above their respective procurement thresholds. For sub-threshold UK contracts, see Contracts Finder (separate API, ask for that as a follow-up actor).

Can I extend this to other portals (DACH bund.de, France BOAMP, India CPP, Brazil ComprasNet)? Yes — open an issue on the actor's Apify page with the portal name, and we'll evaluate adding it.

What's the difference between this and existing tender scrapers? Most existing actors cover one country. This is the only normalized, multi-country tender feed — EU + UK + US in one schema.

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• logiover/sitemap-to-url-crawler — crawl a buyer's website for related solicitation docs

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🆘 Support

Need another procurement portal added, or hitting a TED query that won't parse? Open an issue on the actor's Apify page.