UK & EU Public Tenders: Find a Tender & TED

Get public sector tenders from the UK and Europe in one clean table: open opportunities, early (pipeline) notices and contract awards from Find a Tender (the UK's Central Digital Platform), TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's official journal of public procurement) and, optionally, Contracts Finder. Filter by keyword, CPV code, buyer country, contract value and deadline, and schedule it daily with "only new" to get a bid alert list of just the notices published since yesterday.

The data comes straight from the official open APIs. No login, no proxies, no browser, no scraping of web pages, so there is nothing to block and nothing to break when a website changes.

Try it in one click: the input is prefilled with a "software" search over the last 3 days, 50 notices at most (15 cents). Apify's free plan covers about 1,600 notices a month.

What you get

One row per notice, with the same fields whatever the source:

Field	Example
title	Corporate Power Purchase Agreements
buyer, buyerCountry, buyerCity	Kent County Council t/a LASER, GB, West Malling
value, currency	1500000000, GBP (estimated value; awarded value for awards)
deadline	2026-11-09T15:00:00+00:00 (tender or request-to-participate deadline)
publishedDate	2026-10-01T11:53:39+01:00
cpvCodes, mainCpvCode, mainCpvDescription	["09000000", "09300000", ...], 09000000, Petroleum products, fuel, electricity...
locationCodes	NUTS / ITL codes of the place of performance, e.g. ["UKF25"], ["FRK14"]
procedure, contractType	Open procedure, services
noticeKind, noticeType	tender / planning / award, and the source's own type (tender, tenderUpdate, cn-standard...)
aboveThreshold, suitableForSme	UK notices: above the procurement threshold; buyer says suitable for SMEs
awardedSuppliers	Award notices from the UK: the winning suppliers
description	The notice's description (up to 3,000 characters)
url	The notice on Find a Tender / TED / Contracts Finder
documentsUrl	Where the tender documents or the submission portal are, when the notice gives one
apiUrl	The machine-readable notice (OCDS JSON or TED XML)
source, noticeId, procurementId, id	Find a Tender, 092777-2026, ocds-h6vhtk-06b8f7, fts:ocds-h6vhtk-06b8f7:tender
licence, attribution	The licence of the row's data and the credit line it asks for (see below)

TED notices keep their original language for the title and description (titleLanguage says which, e.g. fra); English is used when the notice has it. mainCpvDescription is always in English.

The run also writes an OUTPUT record: per-source counts (pages read, notices read, matched, already delivered, output), whether each source finished, why a run stopped early, and how many notices each filter dropped.

How to search UK and EU public tenders in 4 steps

1. Add keywords (cleaning, cyber security) and/or CPV codes (72000000 covers all IT services).
2. Pick buyer countries (GB, IE, DE...) or leave empty for the UK plus every country on TED.
3. Set the date range (default: the last 3 days) and, if you like, a value range.
4. Run. For alerts, turn on Only new since the last run and schedule the actor daily.

Example: UK and Irish cleaning contracts, open now

{
    "keywords": ["cleaning"],
    "countries": ["GB", "IE"],
    "dateFrom": "7 days"
}

Example: daily alert for IT tenders over £/€100k anywhere

{
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "48000000"],
    "minValue": 100000,
    "dateFrom": "3 days",
    "onlyNew": true
}

Schedule it once a day. Each run returns only notices it hasn't returned before, and you pay only for those. The 3-day window gives overlap, so a notice published late or a skipped day is still caught.

Example: who won what (contract awards) in the Netherlands this month

{
    "countries": ["NL"],
    "noticeKinds": ["award"],
    "dateFrom": "1 month",
    "maxResults": 1000
}

A month of Dutch awards on TED is about 550 notices (measured 5 October 2026), so about $1.65. maxResults caps the bill; set it to 0 for no limit.

Good to know

• Keywords. UK notices are matched on title, description and buyer name. TED matches the whole notice text, in each notice's own language, so a German notice won't match cleaning. Add translations (Reinigung, nettoyage, limpieza) to cover more of Europe.
• Value filters use the notice's own currency (GBP in the UK, EUR for most TED notices, some in PLN, SEK, CZK...). No exchange rates are applied. When you set a value range, notices that don't state a value are left out.
• Still open only (on by default) drops opportunities whose deadline has passed. Notices without a deadline stay.
• "Only new" remembers up to 60,000 notice IDs per search in a key-value store named public-tenders-state in your account. Changing the filters starts a new memory, unless you give the search a saved search name. A UK tender and its later award are separate notices; updates to a tender you already have are not "new".
• Coverage. Find a Tender has every UK notice under the Procurement Act 2023 (above and below threshold) and above-threshold notices from before it. TED has every EU above-threshold notice plus the EEA and others; since 2021 it has no UK notices. Contracts Finder is off by default: under the Procurement Act new UK notices go to Find a Tender, and on 5 October 2026 Contracts Finder's own search showed no notices at all. Turn it on if you need its older below-threshold notices once its search works again.
• Speed. TED returns 250 notices per request and is quick. Find a Tender allows each client only about a dozen requests a minute, so the actor reads it slowly and waits out its limit when hit (it never fails a run for that). Find a Tender publishes ~450 notices a working day at 100 per request: the default 3 days takes about 1–2 minutes, 10 days about 7 minutes (measured), a month roughly 20–25 minutes. TED-only searches finish in seconds.
• Maximum results is shared fairly between sources. Each source gets an equal part, and what one source doesn't use goes to the others. With a limit of 100, one UK match and 242 TED matches give Find a Tender 1 + TED 99, not TED 100. When a source is cut, the status message says so, e.g. Reached maxResults (100): Find a Tender 1 (all), TED 99 of 242. Rows past a source's equal part are output when the slower source finishes.
• Failures are free and isolated. If one source is down, you still get the other's notices and the OUTPUT record says what failed (turn on Fail the run if a source fails to fail instead).

How much does it cost to get public tender data?

$3 per 1,000 notices returned, so Apify's $5 monthly free credit covers about 1,600 notices. The default daily alert (3 days, one keyword) is typically 10–100 notices, 3–30 cents.

Pay per notice returned (tender-found). Notices filtered out, duplicates, notices already delivered in "only new" mode, and sources that fail cost nothing. The run stops cleanly at your maximum cost per run.

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FAQ

Is this the official Find a Tender or TED API? It reads both official APIs for you and returns one table with the same fields from each. It is not run by, or affiliated with, the UK Government or the EU Publications Office.

How do I get daily tender alerts by email or Slack? Turn on Only new since the last run, schedule the actor daily, and add Apify's Slack or email integration to the schedule. Each run sends only notices it hasn't sent before.

Does it cover Contracts Finder? Yes, as an option. It is off by default because new UK notices under the Procurement Act 2023 are published on Find a Tender.

Which CPV code should I use? Use the broad division to catch everything under it: 72000000 IT services, 48000000 software, 45000000 construction work, 79400000 consulting, 90910000 cleaning, 85000000 health and social work.

Use it from an AI agent or the API

• Minimal input: {"countries": ["GB", "IE"], "dateFrom": "7 days", "maxResults": 20}. Set maxResults to cap the work and the cost (default 100).
• Cost: $0.003 per notice returned. Filtered-out and already-seen notices and failed sources are free. 20 notices = $0.06.
• Run time (our runs): TED-only searches 2–17 s (20 to 1,000 notices). Searches that include Find a Tender (any search with GB or no country) read it slowly to stay within its rate limit: about 1 minute for 15 matches over 7 days with a CPV filter, 2–6 minutes for 30, because Find a Tender has no server-side CPV or value filter.
• Results: the default dataset, one row per notice; the per-source report is the OUTPUT record in the key-value store.
• Works over the Apify MCP server (search-actors, then call-actor).

Licences and attribution

• Find a Tender and Contracts Finder: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated." Credit line: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• TED: the European Union's legal notice for TED says its data "can be freely reused, for commercial or non-commercial purposes", with the source acknowledged: Source: Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu.

Every row carries its own licence and attribution, and the OUTPUT record lists the credit lines for the run. This actor is not affiliated with the UK Government, the Cabinet Office or the Publications Office of the EU.

Privacy

The actor reads only published procurement notices. It does not output the contact points in them (names, emails and phone numbers of buyer staff).

Integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Slack or email with Apify integrations, or pull them from the API in JSON, CSV or Excel. Pair "only new" with a daily schedule and a Slack or email integration for a no-code bid alert.