EU Tender Bid Signals — TED Procurement Records

Official source. No API key. Pay per record.

This actor turns the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) into clean, per-notice bid-signal records. Each run queries TED's public v3 API and delivers one normalized record per procurement notice — the buyer (contracting authority), the classification (CPV), the contract nature, the deadline, the value, and the awarded organisation when present — all at the organisation level only. It is a decision-record, not a monitor or an alert.

What this is, in one paragraph

TED publishes hundreds of thousands of EU public-procurement notices. This actor reads them through the official keyless API and flattens each into a single row you can load into a spreadsheet, a CRM, or a pipeline: who is buying, what they are buying (CPV + nature), by when (deadline), for how much, and — on award notices — who won. Multilingual fields are flattened to their published values; nothing is invented or scored. Contact-person fields are never requested, so no individual's data enters the record.

Who buys this and for what job

• Bid and capture teams building a normalized pipeline of relevant EU tenders by sector (CPV) without scraping the TED website.
• Market-intelligence and BD teams tracking who is buying and who is winning across EU procurement.
• Analysts and researchers who need the structured notice facts with a link back to the official notice.
• Data engineers wanting a keyless, one-call feed of EU procurement records for a pipeline.

The job it does: turn published EU procurement notices into normalized org-level decision records — with provenance, and without an account or key.

Person suppression

TED notices can carry contact-person details. This actor requests and emits organisation-level fields only — the record schema has no person, contact, email, or phone field, so individual contact data cannot appear. Verified by the acceptance suite (a notice carrying a person field is ingested and the emitted record contains no person data).

Pricing

Pay per event. One event: one delivered bid-signal record. Tiered by your Apify plan; delivered before charged. No start fee. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
bid_signal_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
publishedSince	string (YYYYMMDD)	first of current month	Return notices published on or after this date. Earlier = more records.
cpvPrefix	string	—	Optional CPV prefix (2–8 digits) to filter to a sector (e.g. 45 construction, 33 medical).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per notice. Example from a real award notice:

{
  "record_id": "533445-2026",
  "publication_number": "533445-2026",
  "notice_type": "can-standard",
  "publication_date": "2026-08-03+02:00",
  "title": "Fornitura di dispositivi medici",
  "buyer_name": "ESTAR - Ente di Supporto Tecnico Amministrativo Regionale",
  "buyer_country": "ITA",
  "cpv_codes": ["33190000"],
  "contract_nature": ["supplies"],
  "deadline": null,
  "total_value": null,
  "winner_names": ["HERAEUS S.P.A.", "STRYKER ITALIA S.R.L.", "EUROPA TRADING - S.R.L."],
  "source": "EU TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)",
  "source_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/533445-2026",
  "licence": "EU TED ... Commission Decision 2011/833/EU ...",
  "attribution": "Source: EU Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)",
  "disclaimer": "Decision-record of a published EU procurement notice (TED) ... not a monitoring, alerting, or bid-writing service ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z"
}

Every run also writes an unbilled RUN_RECEIPT with the robots check, the query, notices seen, delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Cost guidance

One bid_signal_record per delivered notice, so cost = notices pulled × your plan's per-record price. 1,000 notices is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold); a 500-record default sample is $25 / $16.75.

Honest limitations

• It is a decision-record, not a monitor or alert. It returns the notices matching your window/filter at run time; it does not watch for new ones or notify you.
• Living source. TED publishes continuously; re-run to refresh. Notices are as-published (award notices carry winners; contract notices do not).
• Fields as published. Multilingual values are flattened to their published strings; nothing is translated or re-derived.
• Org-level only. No contact-person data, by construction.

Differentiation

Distinct from the NexGenData EU-tender products: fleet-1's eu-ted-tender-monitor and fleet-2's ungm-tender-award watch are monitors/alert feeds. This actor is the normalized decision-record shape — one flat org-level row per notice for loading and analysis, not a change-watch or notification. Narrower, specific job: the record, not the alert. It is also the EU counterpart to the NexGen Signal UK contract opportunity records actor (UK vs EU).

The NexGen Signal family

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Source: EU Tenders Electronic Daily (TED). Reused under the EU reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) with acknowledgement of source; reformatted to org-level records, values unmodified. Contact-person fields excluded.