TED, SAM.gov, UK & Brazil Tenders Scraper – Public Procurement

Public procurement tenders from EU TED, US SAM.gov, UK Find a Tender, UK Contracts Finder and Brazil PNCP in one unified format. Filter by keywords, CPV codes, countries, publication dates, notice type (tender, planning, award) and minimum value. Official APIs, pay per notice.

Price: $3.00 per 1,000 notices. Uses the official open-data APIs only, with no scraping of web pages, no proxies and no login. Skipped sources and empty results are free.

What data do you get?

Every notice, whatever its source, has the same flat fields:

Field	Example
source / sourceName	ted / EU TED, find-a-tender, contracts-finder, sam-gov, pncp
noticeId, url	692797-2026, link to the official notice page
title, description	original title and trimmed description
buyerName, buyerCountry	contracting authority and ISO country (SE, GB, US, BR…)
cpvCodes	["72000000", "72227000"]
procedureType	open, restricted, Competitive flexible procedure, Pregão - Eletrônico…
noticeType	unified: tender, planning, award, other (+ noticeTypeOriginal)
contractType	works, services, supplies / goods
publishedAt, deadline	publication date and tender submission deadline
estimatedValue, currency	2000000, SEK, BRL (awarded value for award notices)
lotsCount	number of lots
documentsUrl	where to download the tender documents (e-procurement platform)

Source-specific extras are always present (null if not applicable): language (TED), ocid and status (UK), solicitationNumber, naicsCode, pscCode, setAside, placeOfPerformance, awardee (SAM.gov). For Brazil PNCP: status, language (por), solicitationNumber (process number), placeOfPerformance (municipality, state, BR) and awardee (companies only, on contracts).

Why this tender scraper?

• 5 portals, 1 schema. EU + EEA + UK + US + Brazil public procurement in one dataset. You don't have to merge five different formats yourself.
• Official APIs only. Retries with backoff and rate limiting. If a source fails or is skipped, you get a free status row that explains why, and the other sources keep running.
• Fair interleaving. With maxItems: 100 you get notices from every source, not 100 from TED alone.
• Server-side filtering on TED. Keywords (full-text, all languages), CPV codes, countries and notice types go straight into TED's expert query, so results are fast.
• Brazil included. PNCP is Brazil's national procurement portal (Lei 14.133/2021): pregões, concorrências, dispensas with a bidding window, credenciamentos and signed contracts from federal, state and municipal buyers, with no API key.
• $3 per 1,000 notices for all five sources. Status rows and empty sources are free.

Use cases

• Bid / tender monitoring. Schedule a daily run with your keywords and CPV codes and get new opportunities in Slack, email or your CRM.
• Sales intelligence. Find public buyers that purchase your product category and see their deadlines and budgets.
• Competitor and market analysis. Use award notices to see who wins which contracts, at what value and in which countries.
• Consultancies and bid writers. Build tender alert services for clients.
• Research and journalism. Analyse public spending across the EU, UK, US and Brazil.
• Brazilian B2G suppliers. Monitor licitações from all 27 states in one feed, filtered by state and Portuguese keywords.
• AI agents. Give an LLM a single tool that answers "find open IT tenders in Germany over €1M".

How to use it

1. Optionally enter Keywords (e.g. software, cloud hosting) and/or CPV codes (e.g. 72000000).
2. Choose Sources, Notice types (default: open tenders), Buyer countries and the Published from / to window (default: last 7 days).
3. Optionally set a Minimum estimated value and, for US tenders, your free SAM.gov API key.
4. Click Start and export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect via API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets.

Tip: for monitoring, schedule the Actor daily with publishedFrom: "1 day".

Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array	ANY of these words/phrases (case- and accent-insensitive).
sources	array	ted, find-a-tender, contracts-finder, sam-gov, pncp. Default: all.
noticeTypes	array	tender (default), planning, award, other.
cpvCodes	array	CPV codes or prefixes, hierarchical (72000000, 45).
countries	array	Buyer countries, ISO 2-letter (DE, FR, GB, US, BR).
brazilStates	array	PNCP only: Brazilian states (UF), e.g. SP, RJ. Speeds up Brazilian searches.
publishedFrom / publishedTo	string	2026-10-01 or 7 days. Default: last 7 days.
minValue	integer	Minimum estimated value (notice currency).
maxItems	integer	Max notices in total. Default 100.
samApiKey	secret string	Free SAM.gov public API key (only for US).
descriptionMaxLength	integer	Trim descriptions. Default 1000, 0 = full.

Example:

{
    "keywords": ["software", "cloud hosting"],
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
    "countries": ["DE", "FR", "GB"],
    "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
    "publishedFrom": "14 days",
    "minValue": 100000,
    "maxItems": 200
}

An empty input ({}) returns the newest open tenders of the last 7 days from all sources (SAM.gov is skipped without a key).

Output

Real sample (description shortened):

{
    "type": "tender",
    "source": "find-a-tender",
    "sourceName": "UK Find a Tender",
    "noticeId": "094532-2026",
    "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094532-2026",
    "title": "003726 - Internal Audit Management System",
    "description": "Replacement of Internal Audit Software system. Full requirements can be found in Document 3a…",
    "buyerName": "Durham County Council",
    "buyerCountry": "GB",
    "cpvCodes": ["48100000"],
    "procedureType": "Below threshold - open competition",
    "noticeType": "tender",
    "noticeTypeOriginal": "tenderUpdate",
    "contractType": "goods",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T09:57:17+01:00",
    "deadline": "2026-11-05T10:00:00Z",
    "estimatedValue": 170000,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "lotsCount": 1,
    "documentsUrl": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094532-2026",
    "status": "active",
    "language": null,
    "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-07802a",
    "solicitationNumber": null,
    "naicsCode": null,
    "pscCode": null,
    "setAside": null,
    "placeOfPerformance": null,
    "awardee": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T19:35:00.079Z"
}

{
    "type": "tender",
    "source": "ted",
    "sourceName": "EU TED",
    "noticeId": "692797-2026",
    "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/692797-2026",
    "title": "IT-Säkerhetsarkitekt",
    "buyerName": "Löf regionernas ömsesidiga försäkringsbolag",
    "buyerCountry": "SE",
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "72227000"],
    "procedureType": "open",
    "noticeType": "tender",
    "noticeTypeOriginal": "competition / cn-standard",
    "contractType": "services",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-07",
    "deadline": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00",
    "estimatedValue": 2000000,
    "currency": "SEK",
    "lotsCount": 1,
    "documentsUrl": "https://www.e-avrop.com/lof/e-Upphandling/NoticeLink.aspx?id=135558",
    "language": "swe"
}

Free status rows (type: "status") explain skipped or empty sources:

{ "type": "status", "source": "sam-gov", "sourceName": "US SAM.gov", "errorCode": "NO_API_KEY", "error": "US SAM.gov skipped: it requires a free personal API key. ..." }

errorCode values: NO_API_KEY, INVALID_API_KEY, RATE_LIMITED, NOT_APPLICABLE (e.g. country filter excludes the source), NO_RESULTS, BAD_QUERY, SOURCE_FAILED.

Brazil PNCP sample (real notice):

{
    "type": "tender",
    "source": "pncp",
    "sourceName": "Brazil PNCP",
    "noticeId": "82827148000169-1-000075/2026",
    "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/82827148000169/2026/75",
    "title": "CONTRATAÇÃO DE EMPRESA ESPECIALIZADA PARA EXECUÇÃO DE OBRAS DE INFRAESTRUTURA URBANA NO LOTEAMENTO SÃO JOSÉ III NO MUNICÍPIO DE PINHEIRO PRETO/SC",
    "buyerName": "MUNICIPIO DE PINHEIRO PRETO",
    "buyerCountry": "BR",
    "cpvCodes": [],
    "procedureType": "Concorrência - Eletrônica",
    "noticeType": "tender",
    "noticeTypeOriginal": "Concorrência - Eletrônica / Edital",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T00:00:35-03:00",
    "deadline": "2026-10-23T08:15:01-03:00",
    "estimatedValue": 1900479.41,
    "currency": "BRL",
    "status": "Divulgada no PNCP",
    "language": "por",
    "solicitationNumber": "12CC2026",
    "placeOfPerformance": "Pinheiro Preto, SC, BR"
}

Console views: Overview, Details, Source status.

Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing: you only pay for notices you receive. Platform usage is included.

Event	Price	When
tender	$0.003 per notice ($3.00 / 1,000)	Each tender notice saved to the dataset
Status rows	Free	Skipped sources, no results, errors

Job	Cost
Daily alert, ~30 new matching notices	$0.09 per day
1,000 notices	$3.00
10,000 award notices for market analysis	$30.00

Set Max cost per run in run options and the Actor stops cleanly when your budget is reached.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or n8n through the Apify MCP server. The input is small and typed and the output is flat JSON, which works well for tool calls. Example input an agent can send:

{
    "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
    "countries": ["DE", "NL"],
    "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
    "publishedFrom": "7 days",
    "minValue": 500000,
    "maxItems": 20
}

Typical prompts: "Find open construction tenders in Poland published this week", "Which UK councils tendered for waste collection over £1M this month?", "List recent US federal solicitations for drones" (needs a SAM.gov key), "Find pregões for software in São Paulo state published yesterday".

FAQ

Do I need API keys? Not for TED, Find a Tender, Contracts Finder or Brazil PNCP. SAM.gov requires a free personal key: sign in at sam.gov, go to Account Details, then Public API Key. Paste it into samApiKey (stored encrypted). Personal SAM.gov keys allow about 10 requests per day. Each request returns up to 1,000 notices, so one or two runs per day are fine.

How do keywords work? On TED they use TED's own full-text search, which covers every language and every notice field. On UK and US sources they match the title, description and buyer name. Keywords are OR-ed. TED notices are in the buyer's language, so add local terms if you need them (Software, logiciel, oprogramowanie).

How does Brazil PNCP work? The Actor reads PNCP's official open-data API (consulta v1). Notice types map like this: pregão, concorrência, concurso, diálogo competitivo, credenciamento and pré-qualificação are tender; a dispensa is tender when it has a bidding window and other when it is a direct purchase; inexigibilidade, auctions (leilão), revoked or annulled processes are other; manifestação de interesse is planning; signed contracts are award. Values are in BRL and times are Brasília time (-03:00). PNCP has no CPV codes, so it is skipped when you filter by CPV.

Why are Brazilian keyword searches slower? PNCP has no keyword search in its open API and limits request rates, so the Actor reads every notice of the window (about 1,000 notices per minute) and filters locally. Brazil publishes about 5,000 tender-type notices and 8,000 contracts per working day. For keyword alerts, use a short window (publishedFrom: "1 day"), add brazilStates, and use Portuguese keywords (software, limpeza, merenda). Without keywords the first results arrive within seconds.

Why are some values or deadlines empty? Buyers don't always publish an estimated value. Planning and award notices have no submission deadline. If you set minValue, notices without a value are excluded.

Why are TED dates without a time? TED publishes notices once a day, so publishedAt is a date (2026-10-07). Deadlines include the time and time zone.

Are UK below-threshold contracts included? Yes. Contracts Finder covers lower-value UK contracts. Find a Tender covers above-threshold contracts and Procurement Act 2023 notices. The same procedure can appear in both.

How far back can I go? As far as each API allows (TED and the UK services go back years, PNCP to 2021). SAM.gov limits one query to a 1-year window.

Can I monitor tenders daily? Yes. Create an Apify Schedule with publishedFrom: "1 day" and connect a webhook, Slack, email or Google Sheets integration.

Is it legal?

All five sources are official open-data APIs that governments publish so the public can reuse procurement data: TED (EU Publications Office, reuse allowed), Find a Tender and Contracts Finder (UK Open Government Licence), SAM.gov (US public data) and PNCP (Brazilian federal open data under the Access to Information Law).

The Actor does not collect personal data. It does not output contact persons, e-mails or phone numbers from the notices. Brazilian contracts signed with natural persons or sole traders are left out entirely, and CPF numbers, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and "Sr./Sra." names are removed from Brazilian notice texts. Follow each source's terms of use when you redistribute the data.

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Support & feedback

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