Government Tenders API: EU TED, UK Find a Tender & SAM.gov (beta)

What does this government tenders feed do?

It collects new public-sector tenders and contract opportunities from official government sources and returns them in one clean, consistent schema:

Source	Status	Coverage	How it's read
TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)	✅ Live	EU and EEA public procurement and the EU institutions	Official TED Search API v3, anonymous
UK Find a Tender	✅ Live	UK public procurement (above and below threshold, Procurement Act 2023 notices)	Official OCDS API
SAM.gov	🧪 BETA	US federal contract opportunities	Official Get Opportunities Public API, using your own free SAM.gov API key. Built to the published API docs and unit-tested, but not yet verified against the live API. Please report any problem in the Issues tab.
CanadaBuys	⛔ Disabled	Government of Canada (federal) tenders	Turned off pending permission from the publisher: the data is open data, but the download site's robots.txt disallows automated access, so this Actor respects that and does not contact it.

Each notice has the same fields whichever source it comes from: title, buyer, country, stage, CPV / NAICS codes, value, published date, deadline and links. Schedule the Actor daily with monitor mode for a feed that contains only new notices.

Main features

• One schema for several portals. No more separate logins, search UIs and export formats.
• Filters: keywords (any), exclude keywords, CPV codes (EU/UK), NAICS codes (US), country, notice stage (tender / planning / award) and a deadline window (e.g. closes in 7–60 days).
• Monitor mode: "only new since last run", with memory kept in a named key-value store. Each monitor is separate.
• Privacy by design: personal contact names, emails and phone numbers are never output (PIPEDA / GDPR / UK GDPR data minimisation). See Does it collect personal data?.
• Polite and official: only documented public APIs. Each source's rate limits and robots.txt are respected, Retry-After is honoured, and there is no proxy rotation, no browser and no anti-bot evasion.
• Cost control: you pay per notice output, and the run stops cleanly at your max cost per run.

What can you use it for?

• Bid and sales teams: a daily list of new tenders in your sector across the EU and UK (and the US, in beta).
• GovTech / SaaS vendors: watch CPV 72 (IT services) or NAICS 5415 for opportunities, and feed them into a CRM.
• Market research: count notices and values by buyer, country or code.
• AI agents and alerts: pipe new notices to Slack, email, Make or Zapier, or to an LLM that ranks them for fit.

How to use it

1. Pick the sources (TED and UK Find a Tender by default). For SAM.gov (beta), paste your SAM.gov public API key (free: sign in at sam.gov, then Profile > Account Details > Public API Key).
2. Add keywords and/or codes, and optionally countries and a deadline window.
3. Run it. For an alert feed, turn on Only new notices since last run and add a daily schedule.

Input examples

New IT tenders in Germany and Ireland closing in 10 days or more:

{ "sources": ["ted"], "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "48000000"], "countries": ["DE", "IE"], "deadlineMinDays": 10 }

Daily "new software tenders" monitor across the EU, UK and (beta) US:

{
  "sources": ["ted", "uk-fts", "sam"],
  "samApiKey": "<your SAM.gov key>",
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud", "cybersecurity"],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "monitorName": "software-daily"
}

US (beta) small-business set-asides in NAICS 5415 (computer systems design):

{ "sources": ["sam"], "samApiKey": "<key>", "naicsCodes": ["5415"], "publishedWithinDays": 7 }

Input fields

Field	What it does
sources	ted, uk-fts, sam (beta). The default is ted + uk-fts. SAM.gov is skipped (with a warning) if there's no key. CanadaBuys is disabled pending permission.
samApiKey	BETA. Your SAM.gov public API key. It's a secret input: stored encrypted, never logged and never output.
keywords / excludeKeywords	Matched against the title, description and buyer. On TED, keywords use TED's own full-text search.
cpvCodes / naicsCodes	Prefix match (72000000 = all of division 72). If you set codes, a notice must match at least one of them, so add a code for every source you use.
countries	ISO-2 codes (GB, DE, FR, US…). Sources outside these countries are skipped, which saves requests.
noticeStages	tender (default), planning, award.
publishedWithinDays	Fetch window, default 2 days.
deadlineMinDays / deadlineMaxDays / includeNoDeadline	Deadline window, in days from now.
onlyNewSinceLastRun / monitorName	Monitor mode.
maxNoticesPerSource / maxRequestsPerSource / samMaxRequests	Safety limits. SAM.gov allows 10 calls a day per personal key (1,000 with an entity role), so samMaxRequests defaults to 2.
includeDescription / descriptionMaxChars	Plain-text description, contact details removed.

Output

One dataset item per notice:

{
  "key": "ted:726498-2026",
  "source": "ted",
  "noticeId": "726498-2026",
  "title": "Trygghetsskapande Teknik",
  "titleEnglish": "Sweden – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – Trygghetsskapande Teknik",
  "description": "Kommunen avser att upphandla trygghetsskapande teknik …",
  "noticeStage": "tender",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "buyerName": "Värmdö kommun",
  "buyerCity": "Gustavsberg",
  "country": "SE",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "naicsCodes": [],
  "unspscCodes": [],
  "estimatedValue": 25000000,
  "currency": "SEK",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T22:00:00.000Z",
  "deadlineAt": "2026-11-05T23:00:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/726498-2026",
  "documentsUrl": "https://www.kommersannons.se/elite/Notice/NoticeDispatch.aspx?NoticeId=96290",
  "language": "swe",
  "licence": "© European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Procurement notices may be freely reused (TED legal notice; Commission Decision 2011/833/EU).",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T19:08:05.072Z"
}

Output fields

key (unique, source:noticeId), source, noticeId, referenceNumber, title, titleEnglish, description, noticeStage (tender / planning / award / other), noticeType (the source's own type), status, procedureType, buyerName, buyerCity, buyerRegion, country, countries, placeOfPerformance, cpvCodes, naicsCodes, unspscCodes, otherCodes (e.g. PSC, GSIN), setAside, estimatedValue, currency, publishedAt, deadlineAt (ISO 8601, UTC), url, documentsUrl, submissionUrl, language, licence, scrapedAt.

Each run also saves RUN_STATS in the default key-value store: per-source requests, counts read, matched and output, the fetch window, and any error.

How much does it cost?

Pay per result: $0.002 per notice in the dataset, plus Apify's small standard Actor-start fee. 1,000 notices cost $2. A typical daily keyword monitor outputs 10–100 notices a day, which is about $0.60–$6 a month. Set a max cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it gets there ("stopped early: max cost per run reached").

Use it from AI agents (Apify MCP)

AI agents and assistants (Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients) can run this Actor through Apify's hosted MCP server. Add this to your MCP client's configuration. On first connection it opens your browser so you can sign in to Apify:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch-actor-details,markdemian/gov-tenders-feed"
    }
  }
}

Then ask things like "Find open EU tenders for cybersecurity services closing in the next 30 days" or "Any new UK NHS software tenders this week?"

Tips for agents:

• Set includeDescription: false and a small maxNoticesPerSource to keep responses short and cheap.
• Use countries to skip sources you don't need, and codes (cpvCodes, naicsCodes) for precise matching.
• Set a max cost (maxTotalChargeUsd in the call options) to cap what a single call can spend.

Sources and licences

Every item carries a licence field. Keep it when you republish the data.

• UK Find a Tender: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. (OGL v3.0). We re-checked the licence page on 28 Oct 2026. It allows you to copy, publish, adapt and exploit the information commercially, provided you acknowledge the source with that attribution statement and link to the licence where possible. The OGL does not cover personal data, and it does not let you imply official endorsement. The API also states the OGL in every response, and Find a Tender's terms say its content can be reproduced under the OGL.
• TED: © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. According to the TED legal notice and Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, the procurement notices may be freely reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes, and the source must be acknowledged. TED's fair-usage policy for the API (700 requests a minute) is respected: this Actor uses at most about 2 requests a second.
• CanadaBuys: currently disabled. The CanadaBuys tender data is published as open data under the Open Government Licence – Canada, but the download host's robots.txt disallows automated access. The source stays off until the publisher confirms automated downloads are fine; it is not contacted at all.
• SAM.gov (beta): US federal government data, retrieved with your own API key under SAM.gov's terms of use. Works of the US federal government are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these governments or agencies.

FAQ

Is it legal to use this data?

All enabled sources publish this data so that it can be reused, and the Actor only uses their official APIs. Follow each source's attribution terms (the licence field), and the terms of SAM.gov for your API key.

Does it collect personal data?

No, as far as is technically possible. Named contact points are never read into the output: SAM.gov pointOfContact, and Find a Tender contactPoint. Neither are SAM.gov awardee addresses (an awardee can be a sole proprietor). In descriptions, email addresses and phone numbers are replaced with [email removed] / [phone removed], and links that are really email addresses are dropped. Free text can still mention a person's name (e.g. "send questions to …"), and names can't be removed reliably, so treat descriptions as public-sector text that may mention officials. Buyer names are organisations.

Why is SAM.gov skipped or failing?

SAM.gov support is in beta: it follows SAM.gov's published API documentation and is unit-tested, but has not yet been checked against the live API, so field shapes may still change. SAM.gov requires each user's own API key. A personal key allows about 10 requests a day. Each request returns up to 1,000 notices, so one or two calls per daily run is enough. Keys must be renewed every 90 days. When SAM.gov rejects a key, the Actor says so in the log and RUN_STATS, and the other sources still run.

How fresh is the data?

TED publishes on working days (Monday to Friday). UK Find a Tender updates continuously. SAM.gov updates continuously.

How does monitor mode work?

The Actor remembers the keys of notices it has already output (for 180 days) in a named key-value store, and outputs only unseen ones. If a run is interrupted or hits a limit, the next run reaches back to the last complete run (up to 31 days), so notices aren't skipped. Use monitorName to run several independent monitors.

Why is CanadaBuys disabled?

The CanadaBuys data is open data, but the server it's downloaded from has a robots.txt that disallows automated tools. This Actor respects robots.txt, so CanadaBuys stays off until the publisher confirms automated downloads are allowed. Selecting it is not possible in the input.

Can I use it via API, Python, JavaScript, Zapier or Make?

Yes, like any Apify Actor: use the Apify API, the client libraries, webhooks or the Zapier and Make integrations.

Limitations

• SAM.gov: descriptions are not included, because the API returns only a link that needs your key. Use the url to read the full notice on SAM.gov.
• TED: deadlines are date-only (end of day, buyer's time zone). Titles and descriptions are in the original language, and titleEnglish is TED's English title line. Keyword search uses TED's full-text index.
• UK Find a Tender: "published in the last N days" uses the release update time, so an updated older notice can appear again. Monitor mode removes repeats. Stage filtering is done locally because the API's own stages filter returned incomplete results in testing.
• SAM.gov is beta and CanadaBuys is disabled (see above).
• Large back-fills need a higher maxRequestsPerSource. The default reads up to 2,000 notices per source per run.