# EU Tenders API - TED Public Procurement Notices, CPV Filter (`neverempty/eu-tender-monitor`) Actor

Live EU public procurement notices straight from the official TED API. Filter by CPV code, country and notice type. Every row carries an English title, a real deadline and a link you can open, and says openly when a notice publishes no deadline instead of inventing one.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neverempty/eu-tender-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [NeverEmpty](https://apify.com/neverempty) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 notice returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

### Other tools by NeverEmpty

Every NeverEmpty Actor follows the same rule: it never returns an empty result to mean two different things, and it only charges for rows that actually carry an answer.

- **[sanctions-screening-official](https://apify.com/neverempty/sanctions-screening-official)** - name screening against the official OFAC, EU and UN lists
- **[website-contacts](https://apify.com/neverempty/website-contacts)** - emails, phones and social profiles from any website, no invented addresses
- **[domain-lookup](https://apify.com/neverempty/domain-lookup)** - WHOIS, DNS, MX, SPF, DMARC and SSL expiry for a list of domains

# Actor input Schema

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How far back to look for published notices. TED publishes roughly 18,000 notices a week, so a short window plus a CPV filter is usually what you want.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Three-letter country codes of the buying authority, for example DEU, FRA, SWE. Leave empty for every country.

## `cpvCodes` (type: `array`):

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, for example 72000000 for IT services or 45000000 for construction. Leave empty for every category.

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Which kinds of notice to return. cn-standard and cn-social are live calls for tenders, can-standard is an award of a finished contract, pin-only is an early heads-up.

## `openTendersOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip notices whose tender deadline is already in the past. Notices that publish no deadline at all are kept and marked as such, rather than thrown away.

## `maxNotices` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many notices. You are charged per notice returned, so this is also your cost ceiling.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Three-letter language code for the notice title and buyer name, for example eng, deu, fra. If a notice has no text in that language, the row says which language was used instead.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times to retry when TED times out or answers with a server error. Errors that will not change on a retry are not retried.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 7,
  "countries": [],
  "cpvCodes": [],
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard",
    "cn-social"
  ],
  "openTendersOnly": false,
  "maxNotices": 200,
  "language": "eng",
  "maxRetries": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All notices produced by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neverempty/eu-tender-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neverempty/eu-tender-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call neverempty/eu-tender-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neverempty/eu-tender-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/e6GKXNzPlARZGEafd/builds/KPYyndx2aEYcljm94/openapi.json