# EU Tender Monitor (TED): New Tenders by CPV, Country, Value (`prime619/eu-tender-monitor`) Actor

Get new EU public tenders from the official TED API, filtered by country, CPV code, keyword and estimated value. Only new notices since your last run, CSV and Excel files, short English or German summary for each notice. No API key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/prime619/eu-tender-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Philipp Primisser](https://apify.com/prime619) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.10 / 1,000 notice delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.
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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 Tender Monitor (TED)

> **Try it free:** Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, no credit card needed. One example run with the input below costs about **$0.03** (up to 10 notices at $0.003 each).

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "AT"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

Paste this into the **JSON** tab of the input form and click **Start**.

Find new public tenders in the EU's official procurement journal (TED) that fit your business: filter by country, CPV code, keyword and estimated value, and get only the notices you have not seen yet. Each notice comes with a short summary in English or German, and every run also saves a CSV and an Excel file.

The data comes from the official TED Search API of the EU Publications Office. No login, no API key, no website scraping.

### What you get

For every notice:

- title (original language) and the TED title with the main CPV label
- buyer, city and country, place of performance (NUTS)
- CPV codes, contract type (works, supplies, services), procedure
- deadline for tenders and days left
- estimated value and currency, when the buyer published one
- winner, for contract award notices
- link to the notice on TED and to the PDF
- a summary like this one:

> Contract notice (works) from Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. (Graz, Austria). CPV 45311200 Electrical fitting work. Procedure: open procedure. Deadline: 2026-11-04 (28 days left).

On top of the dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML via the Apify export), each run writes `tenders.csv` and `tenders.xlsx` to the key-value store. The Excel file has bold headers, filters, a frozen first row and clickable links.

### Typical setups

**Daily alert for your sector.** Countries `AT`, `DE`, CPV `72000000` (IT services), switch on *Only notices not delivered before*, and add an Apify schedule for every weekday morning. Each run returns only the notices that are new since the last run. Connect the run to email, Slack, Google Sheets or Make with Apify integrations if you want the list sent somewhere.

**Keyword search across Europe.** Leave countries empty, keywords `video production`, `Imagefilm`, `social media`, search in the full text, last 30 days.

**Market research on awards.** Notice type *Contract awards*, CPV `90910000` (cleaning), country `AT`, last 90 days. You get winners and award values.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Buyer countries | ISO codes, `AT` or `AUT`. Empty means all countries. |
| CPV codes | Prefix match. `72000000` covers all codes that start with `72`. |
| Keywords | Any of the words or phrases. Title only, or full notice text. |
| Exclude notices containing | Drops notices with these words in the title or description. |
| Notice types | Open calls for tenders (default), contract awards, prior information notices, or all. |
| Published in the last (days) | 1 to 90. |
| Skip calls whose deadline has passed | On by default. |
| Minimum / maximum estimated value (EUR) | Uses the value stated in the notice. Choose whether notices without a value are kept. |
| Only notices not delivered before | Remembers delivered notices per monitor (see below). |
| Monitor name | Optional name for the memory. Same name, same memory. |
| Maximum notices per run | Caps results and cost. |
| Summary language | English, German or none. Also sets the language of titles and links where TED has it. |
| CSV delimiter | Comma, or semicolon for Excel with German regional settings. |

#### How "only new" works

The Actor keeps a list of notices it has delivered in a named key-value store (`eu-tender-monitor-state`) in your own Apify account, one entry per monitor. The monitor is identified by its name, or, if you leave the name empty, by the filter settings. Delivered notices are remembered for 180 days. Notices that were found but not delivered (for example because of the result cap) show up in the next run.

### Pricing

Pay per event:

- **$0.003 per notice delivered**
- Apify's standard Actor start fee ($0.00005 per run)

You pay only for notices that end up in your dataset. A daily monitor that finds 5 new tenders costs about $0.015 per day. A run with nothing new costs only the start fee. Set *Maximum notices per run* or a maximum cost per run to stay in control.

### Data source and reuse

Source: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. TED notices may be reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes under the Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU). Please keep this credit if you publish the data. The Actor normalises the data (picks languages, adds the summary and deadline countdown) and does not change the content of the notices.

The Actor follows the TED fair-usage rules (well below 700 requests per minute, pauses between pages, backs off on errors).

Always check the official notice and the tender documents before you bid. Summaries are built automatically from the structured fields and can miss details.

### FAQ

**Why do some notices have no value?** Many buyers do not publish an estimated value. Use *Keep notices without a stated value* to decide what happens with them.

**Can I monitor national portals too?** Not yet. This Actor covers TED, which includes all EU notices above the EU thresholds and many below them.

**Something is wrong or missing?** Open an issue on the Actor page and tell me which notice and which filter.

### Further reading

- Free script version for your own machine: [ted-tender-alerts on GitHub](https://github.com/philippprimisser-max/ted-tender-alerts).

### Related Actors by the same developer

- [PDF to Text & Markdown with OCR](https://apify.com/prime619/pdf-to-text-markdown-ocr): turns PDFs, including scanned ones, into clean text, Markdown tables and RAG-ready chunks in 19 languages. Handy for tender documents and specifications.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/prime619/eu-tender-monitor/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

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

Country of the contracting authority. ISO codes like AT, DE, CH or AUT, DEU. Leave empty for all countries.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes. Trailing zeros are ignored, so 72000000 matches every IT service code starting with 72. Leave empty for all sectors.

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

A notice matches if it contains at least one of these words or phrases. Example: video, social media, Reinigung.

## `keywordScope` (type: `string`):

Title search is precise. Full text finds more, including notices where the word only appears in the description.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop notices whose title or description contains any of these words (case-insensitive).

## `noticeTypes` (type: `string`):

Open calls are what you can still bid on. Awards show winners and prices.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Look-back window. For a daily schedule with 'only new' switched on, 3 to 7 days is plenty.

## `onlyOpen` (type: `boolean`):

Only applies to calls for tenders and prior information notices.

## `minValueEur` (type: `integer`):

Uses the estimated value stated in the notice. Many notices give no value, see the next option.

## `maxValueEur` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit for the estimated value.

## `includeWithoutValue` (type: `boolean`):

When a value filter is set, notices without an EUR value are kept (on) or dropped (off).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers what earlier runs of this monitor delivered and returns only new notices. Ideal with an Apify schedule. You are only charged for new notices.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Optional. Runs with the same name share their memory of delivered notices. If empty, the filters themselves identify the monitor.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Caps the number of notices (and the cost) per run.

## `summaryLanguage` (type: `string`):

Short summary built from the notice data (type, buyer, CPV, procedure, value, deadline). No AI service or key involved. Also picks the language of titles and links where TED offers it.

## `csvDelimiter` (type: `string`):

The Excel file is always included as well.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "AT"
  ],
  "keywordScope": "title",
  "noticeTypes": "tenders",
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "includeWithoutValue": true,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxResults": 10,
  "summaryLanguage": "en",
  "csvDelimiter": "comma"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Matching TED notices with summary, deadline, value and links.

## `excel` (type: `string`):

tenders.xlsx with filters, frozen header and clickable links.

## `csv` (type: `string`):

tenders.csv (UTF-8 with BOM, comma or semicolon).

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Query used, notices scanned, already seen, filtered out and delivered.

# 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": [
        "AT"
    ],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("prime619/eu-tender-monitor").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": ["AT"],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("prime619/eu-tender-monitor").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": [
    "AT"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call prime619/eu-tender-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,prime619/eu-tender-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/8H0qzlZaniBnzvJRd/builds/Zla03r8xhPS8I1cht/openapi.json