# EU TED Tenders API - Public Procurement Notices (official data) (`orzelcolony/eu-ted-tenders-api`) Actor

Search and monitor EU public procurement tenders from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) via the official API. Filter by keyword, CPV code, country, notice type, dates, deadline and value. Clean JSON with buyer details, values, deadlines and winners.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/orzelcolony/eu-ted-tenders-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Orzel](https://apify.com/orzelcolony) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
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## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 tender notices

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

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# README

## EU TED Tenders API – Public Procurement Notices

Search, filter and monitor **EU public procurement notices** from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU) and get them as clean, flat JSON. The Actor talks to the **official TED Search API** run by the Publications Office of the EU, so there is no HTML scraping, no proxies, no blocking and no missing notices: what TED publishes, you get, usually within the hour.

Every year TED publishes **hundreds of thousands of notices** worth over EUR 500 billion: calls for tender, contract awards, prior information notices and corrigenda from ministries, cities, hospitals, utilities and universities in all EU member states plus the EEA and other participating countries.

### What you can do with it

- **Find open tenders** in your sector and country before the deadline (e.g. CPV `72` IT services in `DEU` and `AUT`, deadline after today).
- **Monitor new notices** daily: set a *monitor key*, schedule the task, and each run returns only notices you have not received before. Pipe them to Slack, email, Google Sheets or your CRM with Apify integrations.
- **Win/loss intelligence**: pull *contract award* notices to see which companies win which contracts, in which countries, for how much.
- **Lead generation for B2G sales**: buyer name, country, city, email, phone and website of the contracting authority (official contact points published in the notice).
- **Market research and datasets**: thousands of notices per run with CPV codes, NUTS place of performance, estimated and awarded values, procedure types and durations.

### Input

All filters are optional and combine with AND. Leave everything empty to get the newest notices of the last 7 days.

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `keywords` | Words or phrases matched against title and description (any language). Choose *any* or *all* with `keywordMode`. |
| `cpvCodes` | CPV codes; 8 digits match exactly, shorter prefixes match the whole group (`72` = IT services, `45` = construction, `33` = medical, `09` = energy, `79` = business services). |
| `buyerCountries` | ISO alpha-3 codes of the contracting authority: `DEU`, `FRA`, `NLD`, `IRL`, `POL`, `ESP`, `ITA`, `SWE`, `NOR`, ... |
| `placeOfPerformanceCountries` | ISO alpha-3 or NUTS codes of where the contract is performed (`DEU`, `DE21`, `FR10`). |
| `noticeCategories` | `competition` (calls for tender), `result` (contract awards), `planning` (prior information), `change` (corrigenda), `modification`. |
| `noticeTypes` | Advanced: exact eForms notice types (`cn-standard`, `can-standard`, `pin-only`, `veat`, ...). Overrides categories. |
| `publishedAfter` / `publishedBefore` | Publication date window (YYYY-MM-DD). |
| `deadlineAfter` / `deadlineBefore` | Tender submission deadline window. `deadlineAfter` = today gives you only tenders still open. |
| `minEstimatedValue` | Minimum estimated procedure value. |
| `expertQuery` | Advanced: a raw TED expert-search query; when set, all other filters are ignored. |
| `maxItems` | How many notices to return (default 100, up to 10,000 per run). |
| `language` | Preferred language for title/description when a translation exists (`eng` default, falls back to the original). |
| `monitorKey` | Any name. With a key set, each run only returns notices not delivered under that key before. |
| `includeRaw` | Attach the full multilingual API record. |

Example input – open IT tenders in Germany and Austria worth at least EUR 500,000:

```json
{
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "buyerCountries": ["DEU", "AUT"],
  "noticeCategories": ["competition"],
  "deadlineAfter": "2026-10-20",
  "minEstimatedValue": 500000,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

### Output

One dataset item per notice:

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "715185-2026",
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/715185-2026",
  "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/715185-2026/pdf",
  "xmlUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/715185-2026/xml",
  "htmlUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/715185-2026",
  "title": "Germany – Software package and information systems – UEM OSS/MPC",
  "description": "Beschaffung von Workspace One OSS Lizenzen",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "formType": "competition",
  "legalBasis": "32014L0024",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-16",
  "dispatchDate": "2026-10-15",
  "deadlineDate": "2026-10-26",
  "deadlineTime": "12:00:00+01:00",
  "deadlineRequestDate": null,
  "buyerName": "Dataport AöR",
  "buyerCountry": "DEU",
  "buyerCity": "Altenholz",
  "buyerEmail": "dataportvergabestelle@dataport.de",
  "buyerPhone": "+49 43132950",
  "buyerWebsite": "https://www.dataport.de",
  "buyerLegalType": "body-pl-ra",
  "buyerMainActivity": "gen-pub",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "contractNature": "supplies",
  "cpvCodes": ["48000000", "72267000"],
  "placeOfPerformance": ["DEF0B", "DEU"],
  "frameworkAgreement": "fa-wo-rc",
  "awardCriteria": ["price"],
  "estimatedValue": 1.0,
  "estimatedValueCurrency": "EUR",
  "totalValue": null,
  "totalValueCurrency": null,
  "durationValue": null,
  "durationUnit": null,
  "lotTitles": ["UEM OSS/MPC"],
  "winnerNames": [],
  "winnerCountries": [],
  "winnerSize": null,
  "tenderValue": null,
  "tenderValueCurrency": null,
  "submissionUrl": "https://www.dtvp.de/...",
  "documentsUrl": "https://www.dtvp.de/...",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-16T14:31:02Z"
}
```

Contract award notices (`result`) fill `winnerNames`, `winnerCountries`, `tenderValue` and `totalValue`.

`deadlineDate` is the deadline for receipt of tenders. Two-stage procedures (restricted, competitive dialogue, negotiated) publish a deadline for *requests to participate* instead, which you find in `deadlineRequestDate`; between the two, nearly every call for tender has a date. Buyer email, phone and website are the official contact points the authority published in the notice, filled for virtually all notices since the 2024 eForms switch.

### Pricing

The current price is always shown on the **Pricing tab** of this page. The Actor is priced per **notice returned** (or free while no per-notice price is listed) and uses no proxies and no browser, so platform usage is negligible. Notices that do not match your filters are never charged. A run returning 1,000 notices takes well under a minute. Use `maxItems` and the run's spending limit to control cost.

### Notes and limits

- Data source: the official TED Search API (`api.ted.europa.eu`). Notices are published by TED usually within one working day of dispatch; this Actor cannot be faster than TED itself.
- Older notices (before the 2024 eForms switch) have fewer structured fields; values such as buyer email or estimated value may be `null` where the notice did not contain them.
- TED notices can be freely reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes under the Publications Office legal notice. Buyer contact details are the official contact points that authorities publish for this purpose; please use them responsibly and respect applicable data-protection law.
- Use `expertQuery` for anything the simple filters do not cover; the TED expert search syntax supports all 1,800+ fields of the eForms standard.

### Integrations and API

Run it on a schedule, use the Apify API, webhooks or the Apify MCP server from any AI agent, and export to JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets or your database. Questions or a field you need added: open an issue in the Issues tab and it will be answered within days.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Words or phrases matched against the notice title and description in any language, e.g. "cloud computing", "road maintenance", "solar". Each entry is one search term.

## `keywordMode` (type: `string`):

Match notices containing ANY of the keywords, or ALL of them.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes. Full 8-digit codes match exactly; shorter prefixes match the whole group, e.g. 72 = IT services, 45 = construction, 33 = medical, 09 = energy.

## `buyerCountries` (type: `array`):

ISO alpha-3 country codes of the contracting authority, e.g. DEU, FRA, NLD, IRL, POL, ESP, ITA, SWE, NOR.

## `placeOfPerformanceCountries` (type: `array`):

ISO alpha-3 codes or NUTS codes of where the contract is performed, e.g. DEU or DE21.

## `noticeCategories` (type: `array`):

competition = open calls for tender (contract notices); result = contract award notices (who won, for how much); planning = prior information notices; change = corrigenda; modification = contract modifications. Empty = all.

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

Overrides Notice categories. eForms notice-type codes such as cn-standard, cn-social, can-standard, can-social, pin-only, pin-cfc-standard, veat, corr.

## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`):

Earliest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD.

## `publishedBefore` (type: `string`):

Latest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD.

## `deadlineAfter` (type: `string`):

Only notices whose tender submission deadline is on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD. Handy for 'still open' tenders.

## `deadlineBefore` (type: `string`):

Only notices whose tender submission deadline is on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

## `minEstimatedValue` (type: `integer`):

Only procedures with an estimated value at or above this number (in the notice's currency; most are EUR).

## `expertQuery` (type: `string`):

Raw TED expert-search query. When set, all filters above are ignored. Example: classification-cpv IN (72\*) AND buyer-country IN (DEU) AND publication-date>=20260101

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

Maximum number of notices to return (newest first).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Three-letter language code for title/description when a translation exists (eng, deu, fra, spa, ita, pol, nld...). English is used by default, falling back to the original language.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Set any name, e.g. 'it-tenders-germany', and schedule the task: each run then returns only notices not delivered under this key before. Leave empty to disable.

## `includeRaw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the original multilingual TED record under 'raw' (large).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "keywordMode": "any",
  "noticeCategories": [
    "competition"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "language": "eng",
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

JSON array of TED notices (buyer, title, CPV, country, deadline, value, winners) matching the input filters.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "software"
    ],
    "noticeCategories": [
        "competition"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("orzelcolony/eu-ted-tenders-api").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 = {
    "keywords": ["software"],
    "noticeCategories": ["competition"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("orzelcolony/eu-ted-tenders-api").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "noticeCategories": [
    "competition"
  ]
}' |
apify call orzelcolony/eu-ted-tenders-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/G8jIm0y77emGgbc5C/builds/eIqtOuxqwsxrhsupD/openapi.json