EU Tenders Monitor — TED Public Procurement Alerts

Never miss a public tender you could have won.

The EU publishes hundreds of thousands of procurement notices a year on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) — the official journal every public contract above EU thresholds must appear in. The companies that win them are usually the ones that saw them first. This Actor watches TED for your CPV codes, countries and keywords, and with diff mode returns only tenders that weren't there yesterday: schedule it daily, wire a Slack/email/webhook integration, and get bid opportunities delivered instead of hunting for them.

It reads the official TED Search API (European Union open data). No login, no proxies, no scraping tricks.

What can it do?

• Filter by CPV code (72000000 = IT services, 45000000 = construction, 79000000 = business services...), buyer country (ISO3: ESP, FRA, DEU...) and keywords on the title/buyer
• Diff mode (newTendersOnly): only tenders not seen in previous runs — the foundation of a bid-alert pipeline
• Unified, clean output: English title resolved from TED's 24-language data, buyer name, country, CPV codes, publication date, submission deadline, notice type and direct links (detail page + PDF)
• Signals per run: totals by country, top CPV codes, newest publication, next deadline
• Export JSON/CSV/Excel, run via API, MCP-ready

Use cases

Who	What
Companies selling to the public sector	Daily alerts for your CPV + country — be first on every relevant RFP.
Bid consultancies	One scheduled run per client profile; feed pipelines and win-rate dashboards.
Market intelligence	Track which governments are buying what, and how fast, by sector.
Competitor watch	Keyword-match competitor names in tender titles and buyers.

Input

{
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
    "countries": ["ESP", "PRT"],
    "keywords": ["cloud", "software"],
    "sinceDays": 7,
    "newTendersOnly": true
}

Parameter	Type	Description
cpvCodes	Array	CPV codes to watch. At least one of cpvCodes/countries/keywords is required.
countries	Array	Buyer countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3).
keywords	Array	Case-insensitive match on English title + buyer name.
sinceDays	Integer	Look-back window (default 7).
maxItems	Integer	Cap per run (default 200).
newTendersOnly	Boolean	Diff mode — only tenders not seen in previous runs.
trackNewTenders	Boolean	Adds isNew to every tender (default true).
computeSignals	Boolean	One summary item per run (default true).

Output

One item per tender:

{
    "type": "tender",
    "tenderId": "465706-2026",
    "title": "Spain - IT services - FHIR system maintenance",
    "buyer": "Agencia Española de Medicamentos",
    "buyerCountry": "ESP",
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "48422000"],
    "noticeType": "cn-standard",
    "contractNature": ["services"],
    "publishedAt": "2026-07-07+02:00",
    "deadlineAt": "2026-08-01+02:00",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/465706-2026",
    "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/465706-2026/pdf",
    "isNew": true
}

Plus one tender_signals summary item per run.

Quick-start recipes

Daily bid alerts for Spanish IT tenders (schedule daily + Slack):

{ "cpvCodes": ["72000000"], "countries": ["ESP"], "newTendersOnly": true }

Cloud tenders anywhere in the EU:

{ "cpvCodes": ["72000000"], "keywords": ["cloud"], "sinceDays": 14 }

Construction opportunities in France + Germany:

{ "cpvCodes": ["45000000"], "countries": ["FRA", "DEU"], "newTendersOnly": true }

FAQ

Is this data free to use? Yes — TED is the EU's official procurement journal and its Search API is public open data, published precisely so businesses can find opportunities.

Which countries are covered? All EU member states plus EEA and other countries that publish to TED. Note TED covers contracts above EU thresholds; smaller national tenders live on national portals (on the roadmap).

What's a CPV code? The EU's Common Procurement Vocabulary — a hierarchy of ~9,500 codes describing what's being bought. Using a division-level code (e.g. 72000000) matches everything under it.

How does diff mode behave on the first run? Returns everything in the window and primes the memory; from the second run on, only new tenders.

Changelog

1.0

• Initial release: official TED Search API v3, CPV/country/keyword filters, English title resolution from 24 languages, deadlines, diff mode with isNew, per-run signals.