# EU Public Tenders (TED) Notices (`opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices`) Actor

New EU public procurement notices from TED by country, CPV and date: buyer, title, value, deadline, links. Pay per notice, no subscription.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices.md
- **Developed by:** [Fodor Codrut](https://apify.com/opendatafeeds) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## EU Public Tenders (TED) Notices

Returns new EU public procurement notices from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) as clean JSON: one record per notice with buyer, title, sector codes, estimated value, deadline and links, filtered by country, CPV sector and publication date.

### What you get

Every notice TED published in your window, flattened from the official TED Search API: publication number, English title (plus the original-language title), buyer organisation and country, notice type (contract notice, award, modification), procedure type, contract nature, CPV codes, estimated value and currency, earliest tender deadline, NUTS codes of the place of performance, and direct links to the notice page, PDF and XML. No contact persons, emails or phone numbers are collected.

### Who it is for

Bid managers, tender-alert services, procurement consultancies and public-sector sales teams who need a daily feed of EU tenders for one or more countries or sectors without reading TED by hand or learning its expert query syntax. Works for Romania and the whole EU/EEA.

### Use cases

1. **Daily tender alerts for Romania.** Run with the defaults every morning and push new `cn-standard` notices (open tenders) to Slack, email or a CRM. Example filter: `countries: ["ROU"], noticeTypes: ["cn-standard"], sinceDays: 1`.
2. **Sector watch across CEE.** Track IT services tenders in Poland, Czechia and Hungary: `countries: ["POL","CZE","HUN"], cpvCodes: ["72000000"]`, then rank by `estimatedValue` and `deadline`.
3. **Award intelligence.** Pull `can-standard` notices for a sector to see which buyers award what and at which value, feeding a pipeline or a market report.

### Input

Runs with zero configuration (Romania, all notice types, last 7 days, 100 notices). Optional fields:

```json
{
  "countries": ["ROU", "POL"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "noticeTypes": ["cn-standard"],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

| Field | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `countries` | `["ROU"]` | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes of the place of performance. Empty = all countries. |
| `cpvCodes` | `[]` | 8-digit CPV codes, e.g. `45000000` construction, `72000000` IT services. Empty = all sectors. |
| `noticeTypes` | `[]` | eForms types: `cn-standard` (open tender), `can-standard` (award), `can-modif`, `pin-only`. Empty = all. |
| `sinceDays` | `7` | Only notices published in the last N days (1 to 365). |
| `query` | `""` | Advanced: a raw TED expert query that replaces the filters above. |
| `maxItems` | `100` | Stop after this many validated notices. This is your cost cap. |

### Output

One dataset item per notice. Example (real notice, fetched 2026-10-19):

```json
{
  "id": "700436-2026",
  "title": "Romania – Timber harvesting services – Servicii de exploatare forestiera - III - DS Timis",
  "titleNative": "România – Servicii de exploatare forestieră – Servicii de exploatare forestiera - III - DS Timis",
  "buyerOrganisation": "REGIA NATIONALA A PADURILOR - ROMSILVA RA",
  "buyerCountry": "ROU",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-12",
  "deadline": "2026-11-12",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "contractNature": ["services"],
  "cpvCodes": ["77211100"],
  "mainCpv": "77211100",
  "estimatedValue": 2828588.82,
  "currency": "RON",
  "placeOfPerformance": ["RO424", "ROU"],
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/700436-2026",
  "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/700436-2026/pdf",
  "xmlUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/700436-2026/xml",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-19T18:00:00.000Z"
}
```

`estimatedValue` is the sum of the lot values when all lots share one currency, otherwise the first lot's value; it is `null` when the buyer did not publish a value. `deadline` is the earliest lot deadline and is `null` for award and modification notices. Every item is validated against a strict schema before it is saved; invalid or duplicate notices are dropped and never charged.

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription. You pay only for what the run produces:

| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.0045 | once per run |
| Result item | $0.0045 | per validated notice saved to the dataset |

Use `maxItems` as your cost cap. Example: 500 notices cost about $2.25 plus the start fee. Invalid or duplicate records are never charged.

### Limits and refresh

- Source: TED, the official EU procurement journal (https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search). Public data only; notices are freely reusable under the EU's reuse policy. No personal data is collected.
- Crawling is polite: one request at a time, 100 notices per request, a randomized pause between requests, and the run stops on any block signal. A run of 100 notices takes about 10 seconds; 1,000 notices about 1 minute.
- Data freshness: TED publishes new notices every working day; run daily with `sinceDays: 1` for a complete feed, or weekly with the default 7.
- Limits: at most 5,000 notices per run (100 pages). For historical pulls, narrow by country or CPV and raise `sinceDays`.
- If TED changes its API fields, the Actor is repaired automatically and a new version is published.

### Use it from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client

This Actor is available as a tool through the Apify MCP server. Add the server to your client:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}
```

Then ask: "Use EU Public Tenders (TED) Notices to get this week's open IT tenders in Poland." The tool name is `opendatafeeds--eu-ted-tender-notices`.

You can also call it from code:

```js
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices').call({ countries: ['ROU'], noticeTypes: ['cn-standard'], sinceDays: 1, maxItems: 200 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

### Support

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Bug reports with the run ID are fixed first.

# Actor input Schema

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes, e.g. ROU, POL, CZE, HUN, DEU, FRA. Empty = all countries covered by TED.

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

8-digit Common Procurement Vocabulary codes to filter by sector, e.g. 72000000 (IT services), 45000000 (construction). Empty = all sectors.

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

eForms notice types. Common values: cn-standard (contract notice, i.e. open tender), can-standard (contract award), can-modif (modification), pin-only (prior information). Empty = all types.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

Only notices published within this many days.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional. A raw TED expert-search query that replaces the filters above, e.g. (buyer-country IN (ROU)) AND (classification-cpv IN (72000000)). See docs.ted.europa.eu.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many validated notices. You are charged per notice, so this is your cost cap.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "ROU"
  ],
  "cpvCodes": [],
  "noticeTypes": [],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "query": "",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `notices` (type: `string`):

Dataset of flattened TED notices (JSON, CSV, Excel).

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Counts of pushed, invalid, duplicate notices and pages fetched.

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "ROU"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices").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 = { "countries": ["ROU"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "ROU"
  ]
}' |
apify call opendatafeeds/eu-ted-tender-notices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/jfMl2kJLvpfTOscSP/builds/U2vDwWvWRHLeNaO50/openapi.json