EU TED Procurement Watchlist Monitor

Monitor EU Tenders Electronic Daily procurement notices through the official TED Search API and emit structured opportunity records for scheduled bid alerts, market research, and procurement intelligence.

This Actor is for government-contracting teams, proposal shops, consultants, market researchers, agencies, and vendors who need repeatable EU tender watchlists without scraping the TED website.

What It Does

Provide TED expert queries and optional filters:

• CPV codes or CPV prefixes
• place-of-performance country codes
• publication date windows
• buyer or topic terms through TED expert search
• notice type filters through TED expert search

The Actor calls the official public TED API, normalizes multilingual notice fields, extracts buyer names, countries, CPV codes, deadlines, and source links, then compares against previous runs so schedules can emit only new notices.

Output

Each result is one matched TED notice:

{
  "recordType": "eu_ted_procurement_notice",
  "changeType": "new_notice",
  "publicationNumber": "300001-2026",
  "title": "France - IT services - Cloud migration support for public agency",
  "buyerNames": ["Demo Public Agency"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-05-12+02:00",
  "deadlineDate": "2026-06-15+02:00",
  "countries": ["FRA"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/300001-2026"
}

The run also stores:

• RUN_SUMMARY with source status, counts, and errors
• NOTICE_EXPORT with all emitted notice records
• NEW_ONLY for scheduled alert workflows
• BUYER_BRIEF for a short reviewable report
• SLACK_ALERTS for webhook-style notification payloads

Why Use This Instead Of A Broad Tender Scraper?

Broad tender scrapers are useful when you want everything. This Actor is built for watchlists:

1. Define one or more TED expert queries.
2. Add CPV and country filters if needed.
3. Schedule the Actor daily or weekly.
4. Send new matches to Slack, email, Sheets, CRM, or a bid pipeline.
5. Review the TED source notice before making bid decisions.

The Actor uses the official TED API and does not need private credentials.

Pricing

Dry runs are free. Live runs use Pay per Event:

• first 25 live matches are free for Apify free-plan users
• then $0.004 per emitted TED notice match

This charges only when a notice matches the user's watchlist and is emitted.

Limits And Compliance

TED notices can contain multilingual, lot-level, repeated, or missing fields. Deadline and buyer fields can vary by notice form. Verify bid-critical decisions on the source TED notice and procurement documents.

This Actor is not procurement, legal, or bid advice.

Example Input

{
  "queries": ["publication-date >= 20260501"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "countries": ["FRA", "DEU", "ESP"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
  "compareToPreviousRun": true,
  "includeUnchanged": false,
  "dryRun": false
}

Good Use Cases

• EU procurement opportunity watchlists
• CPV-specific tender monitoring
• country-specific bid alerts
• market sizing for public-sector categories
• agency reports for suppliers and proposal teams
• official-source procurement datasets for BI and AI workflows

Local Development

npm install
npm test
npm run build
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage APIFY_INPUT='{"dryRun":true}' npm start