🇪🇺 EU Public Tenders & Government Contracts Scraper (TED Europa)

Extract active European public procurement contracts, direct buyer procurement emails, contract values in EUR, and submission deadlines from TED Europa with automated commercial opportunity scoring.

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🎯 What Does This Actor Do?

Every year, European public sector authorities publish more than €2 Trillion worth of procurement contracts across 27 EU member states on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily).

However, searching and monitoring TED manually is complex, fragmented across dozens of languages, and filled with unstructured legal forms.

This Actor connects directly to the official European Union Publications Office TED v3 API to:

1. Discover live, active public tenders across all EU countries based on your sector keyword (e.g. software, cybersecurity, consulting, medical equipment, construction, cleaning).
2. Extract direct procurement contacts: Official buyer organization, city, country, and direct contact emails of procurement officers.
3. Calculate urgency and time-to-deadline: Exact countdown in days natural (days_until_deadline) and urgency classification (URGENT < 15 days, OPEN, LONG_TERM).
4. Compute Opportunity Score (0–100): Prioritize contracts that offer the best return on bidding effort based on economic volume, bidding window, and direct contactability.
5. Deduplicate cleanly: Deterministic SHA-256 opportunity IDs guarantee zero duplicate records.
6. Provide direct links: One-click URL to the official tender notice and administrative bidding documents on ted.europa.eu.

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💡 Who Is This For?

• B2B Tech Agencies & SaaS Providers: Find high-value government software development, cloud infrastructure, and maintenance contracts.
• Consultancies & Advisory Firms: Target public sector strategy, management, and audit tenders.
• Suppliers & Distributors: Spot equipment, supplies, and medical procurement notices across Europe.
• Lead Generation & Market Intelligence Teams: Feed sales pipelines with verified public tender opportunities with procurement emails.
• Bid Managers & Proposal Teams: Never miss a tender deadline with automated urgency and countdown scoring.

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💰 Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Zero Waste Guarantee

This Actor operates under Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing:

Event	Price	What You Get
tender-extracted	$0.08 / event	1 fully verified, active European public tender with buyer details, contact emails, deadline, and opportunity score

🛡️ Zero-Charge Quality Guarantee: You are ONLY charged for valid, billable tender records. Any corrupt, expired, or invalid records are discarded automatically and cost you $0.00.

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Configure your search using simple, powerful filters:

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	String	"software"	Search keyword or sector (e.g., cloud, consulting, security, transport). Supports full-text search.
country	Select	"ALL"	Filter by EU Member State code: ESP, FRA, DEU, ITA, NLD, BEL, SWE, POL, etc.
contractNature	Select	"ALL"	Procurement category: services (consulting, IT), supplies (goods, equipment), or works (construction).
minValueEur	Integer	0	Minimum contract value in Euros. Exclude contracts below this value (e.g., 100000 for €100k+).
preferredLanguage	Select	"eng"	Preferred title language: English (eng), Spanish (spa), French (fra), German (deu), Italian (ita).
maxItems	Integer	20	Maximum number of verified opportunities to extract (1 to 500).

Example Input:

{
  "query": "cybersecurity",
  "country": "ESP",
  "contractNature": "services",
  "minValueEur": 50000,
  "preferredLanguage": "spa",
  "maxItems": 25
}

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📊 Output Schema

The Actor stores records in the default Apify dataset with the following structure:

Field	Type	Description
opportunity_id	string	Deterministic SHA-256 identifier (e.g. ted_34e6be6fbdf7ece9).
publication_number	string	Official TED notice identifier (e.g. 641327-2026).
title	string	Normalized tender title in your preferred language.
buyer_name	string	Contracting authority / government entity name.
buyer_country	string	ISO 3-letter country code (ESP, FRA, DEU, etc.).
buyer_city	string	City of the contracting authority.
buyer_emails	array	List of verified procurement officer and department emails.
primary_email	string	First verified direct email address for outreach.
has_direct_email	boolean	true if direct procurement email is available.
contract_nature	string	services, supplies, or works.
total_value_eur	number	Contract value in EUR (or null if undisclosed).
economic_tier	string	MEGA (>€10M), HIGH (>€1M), MID (>€250k), LOW (<=€250k), UNDISCLOSED.
classification_cpv	array	European Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes.
publication_date	string	Official date published on TED (YYYY-MM-DD).
submission_deadline	string	ISO datetime deadline for bid submission.
days_until_deadline	integer	Days remaining until submission deadline.
urgency_status	string	URGENT (<15 days), OPEN (15-45 days), LONG_TERM (>45 days).
opportunity_score	integer	Composite prioritization score from 0 to 100.
notice_type	string	Notice category (cn-standard for open competition).
notice_url	string	Direct link to official tender documents and specifications.
extracted_at	string	Extraction UTC timestamp.

Sample Output Record:

{
  "opportunity_id": "ted_34e6be6fbdf7ece9",
  "publication_number": "639755-2026",
  "title": "Netherlands – Software package and information systems – Standard Software Agreement",
  "buyer_name": "Gemeente Amsterdam",
  "buyer_country": "NLD",
  "buyer_city": "Amsterdam",
  "buyer_emails": [
    "h.wijdicks@amsterdam.nl",
    "inkoop@amsterdam.nl"
  ],
  "primary_email": "h.wijdicks@amsterdam.nl",
  "has_direct_email": true,
  "contract_nature": "supplies",
  "total_value_eur": 100000000.0,
  "economic_tier": "MEGA",
  "classification_cpv": [
    "48000000",
    "72000000"
  ],
  "publication_date": "2026-09-17",
  "submission_deadline": "2026-10-30T11:00:00Z",
  "days_until_deadline": 43,
  "urgency_status": "OPEN",
  "opportunity_score": 93,
  "notice_type": "cn-standard",
  "notice_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/639755-2026",
  "extracted_at": "2026-09-17T17:16:40.904094+00:00"
}

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⚖️ Legal & Compliance Notice

This Actor extracts public data published by the European Union Publications Office in compliance with:

• EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement.
• EU Directive 2014/25/EU on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors.
• European Open Data Directive (EU) 2019/1024.

All information processed is public government procurement data designed for transparent market access. This Actor does not bypass captchas, does not require authentication, and strictly respects official API rate limits.