TED EU Tenders Monitor - Public Procurement Alerts

For bid teams, consultancies, suppliers and sales teams who sell to European public buyers. Get new TED tenders and EU tenders from the official TED API (Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's public procurement journal) in one clean dataset. Filter by CPV code, buyer country, contract value, keyword and buyer, return only notices you have not seen before on a schedule, and send each new one to Slack, Discord, Telegram or your phone. Built for public procurement Europe monitoring without copying notices by hand.

$0.005 per delivered notice — 1,000 notices = $5

It reads the official, public TED Search API v3 (api.ted.europa.eu). No scraping, no login, no proxy, no API key. Only notices that pass your filters are delivered, and only delivered notices are charged. Selling to the UK as well? See the sibling UK Tenders Monitor (Contracts Finder and Find a Tender): same inputs, same alerts.

What you get

One row per notice, flattened and ready for a spreadsheet, CRM or alert: publication number, notice type, title (English when TED has it, otherwise the original language with its language code), buyer name and country, publication date, bid deadline, estimated value and currency, CPV codes, procedure type, place of performance, the TED notice page link, a link to the tender documents, and the number of lots.

You want	Set
IT tenders in Germany over €200k	cpvCodes: ["72"], countries: ["DE"], minValue: 200000
Anything mentioning a topic, in any EU language	keywords: ["cybersecurity", "Cybersicherheit"]
One buyer family	buyerContains: "ministry"
Several countries	countries: ["IE", "NL", "BE"]
Who won what (competitor research)	noticeTypes: ["award"]
Early warning of future procurement	noticeTypes: ["planning"]
Only what is new since yesterday	onlyNewSinceLastRun: true on a daily Schedule

Quick start

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Run it with no filters at all and you get the 50 newest contract notices (open tenders) from the last 7 days across Europe.

Recipes

IT tenders in Germany over €200k to Slack

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "minValue": 200000,
  "noticeTypes": ["competition"],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/<T>/<B>/<token>"
}

Save it as a Task, add a daily Schedule, and Slack gets only the German IT services tenders published since the last run. The first run is the baseline and sends what was published in the window.

Daily EU tender alerts by CPV

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48", "79"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 2,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "discordWebhookUrl": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/<id>/<token>"
}

Construction tenders in France, Belgium and Luxembourg

{
  "cpvCodes": ["45"],
  "countries": ["FR", "BE", "LU"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Last quarter's awards for one category (competitor and pricing research)

{
  "noticeTypes": ["award"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-07-13",
  "publishedTo": "2026-10-10",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Alerts: Discord, Telegram, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, phone push or any app

Add one or more destinations in the Notifications (optional) section and each run sends the notices it delivered. It is a monitor that notifies you: it only reads the public TED API, and never bids, applies, contacts a buyer or logs in anywhere.

Channel	Fill in	What you get
Discord	discordWebhookUrl	One card per notice, 10 per message
Telegram	telegramBotToken + telegramChatId	Up to 10 notices per message, one line each
Slack	slackWebhookUrl	Block Kit message, up to 10 notices per message
Mattermost, Rocket.Chat	slackCompatibleWebhookUrl	A Markdown list
Microsoft Teams	teamsWebhookUrl	Adaptive Card from a Teams Workflows webhook
Google Chat	googleChatWebhookUrl	Card in a space
ntfy (phone push, no account)	ntfyTopic (optional ntfyServer, ntfyToken)	A push per notice, up to 10, then one "...and N more"
Pushover (phone push)	pushoverUserKey + pushoverAppToken	A push per notice, up to 10, then one "...and N more"
Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream	webhookUrl	One JSON POST per 100 delivered rows with the full dataset rows

Each message reads like New tender: Cloud hosting and managed services — Stadtwerke Beispielstadt GmbH, with the value, closing date, published date, country, CPV codes, lots and procedure, and a link to the TED notice. Nothing is sent when a run delivers nothing, a failing channel never fails the run, and notifications are free: you pay only for delivered notices. Webhook URLs and tokens are stored as secret inputs.

Setup per channel is a minute or two: for Discord copy a channel webhook URL (Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks); for Telegram create a bot with @BotFather and give its token plus a chat id; for Slack create an incoming webhook at api.slack.com/apps; for Teams use a Workflows "Post to a channel when a webhook request is received" URL.

maxNotifications (default 25, max 100) caps how many notices go to chat and phone channels per run; the rest are still in the dataset. Use onlyNewSinceLastRun for alerts, otherwise a scheduled run repeats the same notices.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
keywords	[]	TED full-text search: notices matching any of these words or phrases. Works across EU languages. No quotes or brackets inside a word; up to 20.
cpvCodes	[]	CPV prefix match, searched by TED. 72 = all IT services, 72200000-7 = software programming. Invalid codes stop the run with an error.
countries	[]	Buyer country, two- or three-letter ISO code (DE or DEU). EL/GR = Greece, UK/GB = United Kingdom. Empty = all.
noticeTypes	["competition"]	competition (contract notices you can bid for; aliases tender, opportunity), award (contract award results; alias result), planning (prior information; alias prior-information).
minValue, maxValue	none	Euro bounds on the estimated value. Notices with no published value, or in another currency, are left out while either bound is set. No exchange rates are applied.
buyerContains	""	Buyer name contains this text (case-insensitive, matched on the name as published).
publishedWithinDays	7	1 to 90 days back, including today.
publishedFrom, publishedTo	none	Explicit YYYY-MM-DD range, at most 90 days. Overrides publishedWithinDays.
maxItems	50	Hard cap on delivered notices, 1 to 2,000, newest first.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	false	Deliver and charge only notices not delivered before for this same set of filters.
stateStoreName	ted-eu-tenders-monitor-seen-notices	Named store holding the alert memory.
notification fields	none	discordWebhookUrl, telegramBotToken, telegramChatId, slackWebhookUrl, slackCompatibleWebhookUrl, teamsWebhookUrl, googleChatWebhookUrl, ntfyTopic, ntfyServer, ntfyToken, pushoverUserKey, pushoverAppToken, webhookUrl, maxNotifications.

Keywords, CPV codes, countries, notice types and dates are turned into one TED expert-search query and run by TED itself. The value range and the buyer name are checked after download, so with a broad search they can make the run read more pages (the run stops at 60 pages or 15 minutes and says so in its status message).

How "only new" works

With onlyNewSinceLastRun, the Actor remembers each delivered notice by its TED publication number, in a named key-value store, per set of filters (changing a keyword starts a fresh baseline; changing maxItems or publishedWithinDays does not). Only notices actually delivered are remembered, so anything held back by maxItems or your spending limit turns up on the next run. A contract notice and its later award have different publication numbers, so the award alerts separately.

Example output

{
  "publicationNumber": "612345-2026",
  "noticeType": "competition",
  "noticeSubtype": "cn-standard",
  "title": "Cloud hosting and managed services",
  "titleLanguage": "eng",
  "buyerName": "Stadtwerke Beispielstadt GmbH",
  "buyerCountry": "DEU",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-09",
  "deadlineDate": "2026-11-10",
  "estimatedValue": 270000,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "72500000"],
  "procedureType": "open",
  "placeOfPerformance": "DEU",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/612345-2026",
  "documentsUrl": "https://vergabe.example/docs/612345",
  "lots": 2,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T09:00:00.000Z"
}

This sample is illustrative (synthetic buyer and domain names), shaped like TED's search results. Anything a notice does not publish is null, never guessed. title is English when TED has an English title, otherwise the original-language text with titleLanguage set to its code (deu, fra, pol). estimatedValue is the notice total when TED publishes one, otherwise the sum of the lot estimates when they share one currency; deadlineDate is the earliest lot deadline. buyerCountry is TED's ISO alpha-3 code. Awards and planning notices usually have no deadline.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through Apify's MCP server. Every input is optional, so a call can be as small as cpvCodes and publishedWithinDays.

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), with your own token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-ted-tenders": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y", "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=lukehunter/ted-eu-tenders-monitor",
        "--header", "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}"
      ],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Clients that support OAuth (Claude.ai, VS Code) can connect with just the URL https://mcp.apify.com?tools=lukehunter/ted-eu-tenders-monitor and sign in to Apify. Never paste a real token into a shared file or chat.

Example. You ask: "Which German public bodies published IT tenders worth over €200k this week, and when do they close?" The agent calls the tool lukehunter--ted-eu-tenders-monitor with:

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "minValue": 200000,
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 25
}

It is charged $0.005 per delivered notice, capped by maxItems. Each input property description is short and carries an example, so agents fill it in correctly.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.005 per delivered notice. A notice is charged only after it is accepted into the dataset, and only if it passed your filters (and, in alert mode, was not delivered before).

Notices delivered	Cost
20	$0.10
50 (default cap)	$0.25
2,000 (maximum)	$10.00

maxItems (hard maximum 2,000) and your Apify per-run spending limit both stop delivery before the cap is passed. Reading TED, filtering and sending notifications cost nothing extra. Price changes follow Apify's notice rules; the Pricing tab always shows the rate you are charged.

Limitations

• EU open data, attribution required. TED notices are public data of the European Union, free to reuse under the EU Publications Office's reuse policy. If you republish them, credit the source, for example "Source: TED, European Union, https://ted.europa.eu", and see the TED legal notice for the exact terms.
• Not affiliated with the EU. This is an independent Actor reading the public TED API. Always confirm deadlines and requirements on the official TED notice page (the url field) before bidding.
• Coverage is what TED publishes. TED carries notices above the EU thresholds plus some national ones; many below-threshold tenders are only on national portals, which this Actor does not read.
• Values are often missing, and never converted. Many notices publish no value, and values come in the buyer's currency. With minValue or maxValue set, notices without a euro value are left out; leave the bounds empty to see them with null values or another currency.
• Titles and buyer names are in the notice language when no English version exists; titleLanguage says which.
• Time window, not archive. Each run covers at most 90 days and reads at most 60 pages (up to 15,000 notices) over at most 15 minutes. When a window is bigger than that, the run says it stopped early; narrow the dates or add filters.
• TED query changes. TED's field names and query syntax are versioned by the Publications Office. If TED rejects an optional field the Actor drops that column and says so in the status message; if it rejects the search itself, the run fails with TED's message and nothing is charged.
• Rate limits. Requests are paced at about one a second, and 429/5xx responses are retried with backoff. If TED stays unavailable, nothing is charged and the run fails with a clear message.

Use it from your code, Make, Zapier or n8n

Built for automated pipelines: small runs, stable field names, one row per item, and you pay only for rows actually delivered.

One API call that runs the Actor and returns the data (replace $APIFY_TOKEN with your token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations):

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lukehunter~ted-eu-tenders-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"keywords": ["software"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "publishedWithinDays": 7, "maxItems": 20}'

JavaScript (npm i apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('lukehunter~ted-eu-tenders-monitor').call({
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "cpvCodes": [
    "72"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python (pip install apify-client):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient(os.environ['APIFY_TOKEN'])
run = client.actor('lukehunter~ted-eu-tenders-monitor').call(run_input={"keywords": ["software"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "publishedWithinDays": 7, "maxItems": 20})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items

Schedules, webhooks and no-code tools: save your input as a Task, add a Schedule (e.g. hourly or daily), and attach a webhook or one of the Integrations tab's connectors (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack) to push each run's results into your own system.

Only new items each run: set "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true on a scheduled Task and every run after the first delivers, and charges for, only items it hasn't delivered before for that same input. That makes it a ready-made change feed.

Feedback: an honest rating on the Store page, good or bad, helps others decide if this Actor fits their needs. Missing a field or found a problem? Open an issue on the Actor page.

FAQ

Is this the official TED API? Yes. It calls the public TED Search API v3 that the EU Publications Office provides, anonymously, with an honest User-Agent and no proxy.

What is a CPV code? The Common Procurement Vocabulary is the EU classification of what is being bought. 72 is IT services, 45 construction, 33 medical equipment, 79 business services. Enter any 2 to 8 digits as a prefix.

Why is a notice I saw on the TED website missing? Check its type (the default is competition only), its publication date against your window, and whether minValue/maxValue excluded it for having no euro value.

Does it cover the UK? TED no longer carries UK tenders after Brexit, except Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework. Use the UK Tenders Monitor for Contracts Finder and Find a Tender.

Can I get tenders in Slack, Discord or Telegram every morning? Yes: set onlyNewSinceLastRun, add a destination and a daily Schedule. See the recipes above.

Does it submit bids or contact buyers? No. It only reads and reports.

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