EU Tenders API - TED Public Procurement Notices, CPV Filter

Every public contract above the EU threshold has to be advertised on TED. That is roughly 18,000 notices a week across 27 countries, in 24 languages, and the official search UI gives you a page you have to read by hand.

This Actor turns that firehose into a flat table you can filter, diff and pipe into a CRM — from the official TED API, not from scraping the website.

No API key. No proxies. No headless browser. Nothing that breaks the next time europa.eu is redesigned.

What one row looks like

Field	Example — a real notice, 581196-2026, as this Actor returns it
title	Germany – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – Ausschreibung SIEM-MSOC
buyerNames	["Hamburger Energiewerke GmbH"]
buyerCountries	["DEU"]
deadlineDate	2026-09-25
deadlineUtc	2026-09-25T10:00:00.000Z — the notice closes at 12:00 Berlin time, and that is kept
deadlineStatus	open
daysUntilDeadline	29
totalValue / totalValueCurrency	null / null — this notice publishes no value, and none is invented
cpvCodes	["72000000","72212730","48000000","79710000"]
procedureType	neg-w-call
contractNature	services
noticeTypeLabel	Call for tenders (contract notice)
noticeUrl	https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/581196-2026 — opens the notice
titleLanguage / buyerNameLanguage	eng / deu — which language each string actually came from

A notice that does publish a value returns both halves of it. On 2026-08-27, of 226 award notices carrying a value, 71 of them (31%) were not in euros — Polish złoty, Czech koruna, Swedish krona, Hungarian forint. 560656-2026 is 205998370 HUF; read that as euros and you are out by a factor of about 400. So the currency is never dropped.

The three things that make this different

1. "No deadline published" is not the same as "deadline passed"

A lot of notices carry no tender deadline at all. Treat that as a missing date and you either drop a live opportunity or show a bidder that it has already closed.

deadlineStatus is always one of three values, and they never blur into each other:

Value	Meaning
open	A deadline is published and it has not passed. daysUntilDeadline counts down.
closed	A deadline is published and it is in the past.
not-published	This notice does not publish a deadline. deadlineDate and daysUntilDeadline are null — not 0, not today's date.

The time of day is part of the deadline. Of the notices closing on 2026-08-27, all 250 sampled carried a clock time, and most of them closed at 09:00, 10:00 or 12:00 local. An Actor that compares dates only will keep calling those "open" until midnight. This one compares the actual instant, and publishes it as deadlineUtc, so a tender that shut at 09:00 Berlin time reads as closed from 07:00 UTC onward.

Switch on Only tenders whose deadline has not passed and the closed ones are skipped — but not-published ones are kept, because throwing them away would be a guess about something the notice never said.

2. It tells you which language it gave you

TED publishes a title in all 24 official languages, but the buyer's own name usually exists in one. So a row can honestly be an English title next to a German buyer name — and titleLanguage / buyerNameLanguage say so, instead of silently handing you a Hungarian string because that key happened to come first.

3. It never returns an empty table without saying why

If your filter matches nothing, you still get one row that tells you which case it was:

rowType	Meaning	Charged?
notice	A real notice	Yes
no-notices	TED answered normally and had nothing matching this search. The row repeats the exact query used	No
no-open-notices	There were notices, but every one had a deadline in the past and you asked for open ones only	No
unavailable	TED could not be read. reason carries the error	No
incomplete	Some notices were delivered, then the run had to stop early. The row says how many of the number you asked for arrived, and why	No

An empty dataset never means "the tool is broken" here, because there is no such thing as an empty dataset.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
daysBack	7	How far back to look for published notices
countries	empty	Buyer countries as ISO-3 codes: DEU, FRA, SWE. Empty means every country
cpvCodes	empty	CPV codes: 72000000 for IT services, 45000000 for construction. Empty means every category
noticeTypes	cn-standard, cn-social	cn-* are live calls for tenders, can-* are awards of finished contracts, pin-* are early heads-ups
openTendersOnly	false	Skip notices whose deadline has already passed. Notices with no published deadline are kept
maxNotices	200	Hard stop. You are charged per notice returned, so this is your cost ceiling
language	eng	Preferred language for titles and buyer names
maxRetries	3	Retries when TED times out or returns a server error. A 400 is never retried — it will not change

Pricing

You are charged per notice returned, and there is no start fee. The no-notices, no-open-notices, unavailable and incomplete rows cost nothing, and a run that reaches nothing costs nothing.

Verified, not assumed

Measured against the live API on 2026-08-27:

• POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search → HTTP 200, no API key
• 17,982 notices published in the previous 7 days
• limit above 250 is rejected with HTTP 400, so this Actor pages in 250s and never asks for more
• A German IT search (DEU + CPV 72000000, 3 days, the default notice types) returned 67 matching notices, delivered with English titles, real deadlines and working links

Source

European Union — Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official supplement to the EU Official Journal. Public, re-usable data. This Actor does not scrape the TED website and does not need credentials.

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