EU Tenders (TED) Extractor and Monitor

Find European public tenders on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official EU journal for public procurement, and get them as clean, structured data. Search by keyword, CPV code, buyer country and publication date, keep only tenders that are still open for bids, and run it on a schedule to receive only the notices you have not seen before.

This EU tenders extractor uses the official TED Search API v3 (api.ted.europa.eu), which is public and needs no API key. It does not scrape web pages, does not log in anywhere and does not use proxies.

This actor is independent. It is not affiliated with, authorised or endorsed by the European Union, the European Commission, the Publications Office of the EU or TED.

What you can use it for

• Find bids to respond to: for example IT services (CPV 72000000) or software (CPV 48000000) tenders in the Netherlands that are still open.
• Daily or weekly tender alerts: schedule the actor with monitor mode on, then send new notices to e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets or your CRM using Apify's schedules and integrations.
• Market research: see which public bodies buy what, where, and for roughly how much (estimated values, where the buyer published one).
• Pipeline and competitor tracking: follow award results and contract modifications in your sector.

Why this TED actor

There are several TED tender actors on Apify Store. This one is built to be:

• Privacy-safe by design. It never requests contact names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, street addresses or the names of winning tenderers. Notices can contain that information; this actor does not collect it, so you have less personal data to look after.
• Made for monitoring. Monitor mode remembers which notices earlier runs delivered and skips them. Skipped notices are free.
• Easy to filter. Country codes as NL or NLD, CPV codes with or without the check digit, an "only open for tenders" switch, newest first, and a days-until-deadline field.
• Readable. Titles and buyer names in your preferred language where TED has them, with English as the fallback.
• Polite to the source. At least one second between API calls (two by default), with automatic back-off if TED is busy.

How to use it

1. Choose your filters: keywords, CPV codes and/or countries, and how far back to look.
2. Leave "Notice kinds" on calls for competition to see open opportunities, or add award results and other kinds.
3. Set "Maximum notices" to cap the cost of the run.
4. For alerts, switch on monitor mode, give it a monitor key such as nl-it-tenders, and add a daily schedule in Apify.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use them through the Apify API.

Input

Field	What it does
Keywords	Full-text search. A notice matches if it contains any keyword. Notices are in many languages, so add translations for better coverage
CPV codes	8-digit codes, for example 72000000 (IT services) or 48000000 (software packages). Matching includes sub-codes
Buyer countries	NL or NLD, DE or DEU, and so on
Notice kinds	Calls for competition (default), planning, award results, contract modifications, direct award pre-announcements, market consultations
Published within the last N days / from / to	Publication date range. Default: last 7 days
Only notices still open for tenders	Keeps notices with a submission deadline today or later
Monitor mode and monitor key	Only notices not delivered by an earlier run with the same key
Preferred language	3-letter code such as eng, nld, deu or fra
Newest first	On by default
Maximum notices	Cap to control cost
Advanced	Extra TED expert-search expression (dates as YYYYMMDD), page size, seconds between requests

Example input:

{
  "countries": ["NL"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "48000000"],
  "onlyOpenForTenders": true,
  "publishedWithinDays": 14,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Output

One row per notice. Example (a real notice, shortened):

{
  "publicationNumber": "718679-2026",
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/718679-2026",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-19",
  "formType": "competition",
  "formTypeLabel": "Call for competition (open opportunity)",
  "title": "Netherlands – Document management software package – Europese openbare aanbesteding 'Levering, implementatie, beheer en onderhoud van een Record Management Applicatie (RMA)'",
  "titleLanguage": "eng",
  "buyerNames": ["Raad van State"],
  "buyerCountries": ["NLD"],
  "buyerCities": ["Den Haag"],
  "cpvCodes": ["48311000", "48000000", "72263000", "72267000", "72268000"],
  "contractNature": "supplies",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "estimatedValue": null,
  "tenderDeadlines": ["2026-11-25"],
  "nextTenderDeadline": "2026-11-25",
  "daysUntilNextDeadline": 25,
  "source": "TED API v3 (api.ted.europa.eu)",
  "attribution": "Source: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), Publications Office of the European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. © European Union. ..."
}

Other fields: pdfUrl, xmlUrl, noticeType, noticeVersion, procedureTitle, placeOfPerformanceCountries, estimatedValueCurrency, estimatedValueSource (procedure, or sum of lots), officialLanguages, retrievedAt.

Each run also saves a SUMMARY record in its key-value store: the query sent to TED, the total number of matches, notices saved, notices skipped and requests made.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• USD 0.002 per notice saved to your dataset (USD 2 per 1,000 notices).
• Notices skipped in monitor mode are free.
• Apify's standard start fee of USD 0.00005 per run applies.
• There is no separate platform usage charge for normal runs; Apify's platform costs are covered by the event prices.

Examples (arithmetic only):

Use	Cost
One run that saves 100 notices	about USD 0.20
A daily monitor for 30 days that saves 10 new notices a day	about USD 0.60, plus 30 start fees of USD 0.00005 each

Set "Maximum notices" or a maximum cost per run in Apify to stay in control. The actor stops cleanly when your limit is reached.

Limitations, honestly

• Data quality is the buyer's. Many notices have no estimated value, and some calls for competition have no machine-readable deadline. Fields are empty when TED has no value.
• Titles may be machine-assembled. TED's English titles often combine country, CPV description and the original-language title.
• Keyword search is literal. It does not translate, so add keywords in the languages you care about.
• TED is the authentic source. Only notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU are legally authentic. Always check the notice on TED before you bid.
• Coverage is TED only. National below-threshold tenders, for example many on TenderNed, are not on TED.
• Speed. The actor waits at least one second between requests, and each request returns up to 250 notices. Very large exports therefore take a little time.

FAQ

Can I use TED data commercially? Yes. The TED legal notice says that, unless otherwise noted, procurement notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU can be freely reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes. This follows Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents. Keep the source credit below and do not distort the meaning of the notices.

Is this a web scraper? Do I need proxies or a TED account? No to all three. It calls the official TED Search API, which is public and needs no key.

Why are there no contact names, e-mails or phone numbers? On purpose. Notices can include personal contact details, and many uses do not need them. Open the noticeUrl to see the full notice on TED when you are ready to bid.

How do daily alerts work? Turn on monitor mode, set a monitor key, and schedule the actor in Apify (for example every morning). Each run returns only notices that earlier runs with the same key did not deliver, and you can connect an integration to send them where you work. The memory is kept in a key-value store in your Apify account named rankoff-ted-tenders-monitor, and holds up to 20,000 notice numbers per key.

Why do I get a different number of results from the TED website? TED's website and this actor may use different default filters, for example on notice kinds, dates or active notices only. The SUMMARY record shows the exact query this actor sent, and you can paste it into TED's expert search to compare.

What does "Only notices still open for tenders" do? It keeps notices with at least one tender submission deadline today or later. Notices without a machine-readable deadline are left out when this is on.

Which CPV codes should I use? Use the broad code for a family to include all its sub-codes, for example 72000000 for IT services or 48000000 for software. The official CPV list is published by the EU.

What happens if TED is busy or rejects my query? The actor retries with increasing waits when TED is busy. If TED rejects a query, for example because of a mistake in an advanced expression, the run stops and shows TED's own error message. No notices are charged; only the small start fee applies.

Who made this actor? Rankoff B.V., a small company in the Netherlands (https://rankoff.io). It was built with AI assistance and tested against the live TED API before publishing.

Data source, licence and credit

Notices come from TED, published by the Publications Office of the European Union. Reuse is allowed under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, whose Article 6(2) lets the conditions require reusers to acknowledge the source, not to distort the original meaning or message, and accept that the Commission is not liable for any consequence of the reuse.

Every row carries this credit. If you republish the data, please keep it:

Source: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), Publications Office of the European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. © European Union. Reused under the Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU). Fields were selected and reformatted by this actor; only notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU are authentic.

Further notes:

• The European Union, the European Commission and the Publications Office are not responsible for this actor or for any use of its output.
• This actor uses no TED, SIMAP or EU logos or emblems.

Personal data

The actor requests a fixed list of organisation-level fields and refuses to start if that list ever includes contact, person, e-mail, phone, address, winner or tenderer fields. Buyer names are normally public bodies or companies. If you combine this data with other sources, you are responsible for your own data protection compliance.

Support

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