Official EU Public Tender Opportunities API

Unofficial independent tool. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Publications Office of the European Union or Tenders Electronic Daily.

Turn active EU procurement competition notices into a bounded, normalized feed for alerts, research, CRM enrichment, agents, spreadsheets, and opportunity monitoring. The Actor reads the anonymous official Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) Search API. It does not scrape a reseller, infer award probabilities, or claim that a notice is suitable for a particular supplier.

What does the tender monitor return?

Each row includes the official publication number and date, competition notice type, preferred-language title and buyers, places-of-performance countries, CPV classifications, submission deadlines, estimated procedure or compatible lot value when supplied, the official notice link, source attribution, retrieval time, and coverage telemetry. The coverage object records the official result count, number scanned, scan cap, timeout flag, truncation flag, and exact official query, so a partial source scan cannot look complete.

Only official competition-stage notice types are eligible. Award notices and planning notices that do not invite competition are excluded. Active API scope and latest notice versions are requested, then every result is independently filtered and deduplicated by publication number. This product normalizes the source and labels that transformation; the official notice remains authoritative.

Example

Fetch recent software and IT opportunities:

{
  "publicationStartDate": "",
  "publicationEndDate": "",
  "daysBack": 7,
  "noticeTypes": ["cn-standard", "pin-cfc-standard"],
  "countries": [],
  "cpvPrefixes": ["48", "72"],
  "search": "",
  "preferredLanguage": "eng",
  "scanLimit": 5000,
  "maxItems": 300
}

Country filters use ISO alpha-3 codes such as PRT, ESP, and DEU. CPV filters are prefixes containing two to eight digits, so 72 covers the broad IT-services family while 72000000 is narrower. Search is case-insensitive and applies to the normalized title, buyers, country codes, and CPV codes. Explicit publication dates override daysBack; the inclusive date span is capped at 30 days by the input contract.

Source and reuse behavior

Records come from the official TED Search API at https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search. The official TED legal notice is linked in every output row. TED procurement notices are published for reuse; this independent product adds filtering, field selection, language preference, normalization, deduplication, and coverage telemetry. It does not use an EU institution logo or imply endorsement. Source attribution is retained and the normalization is explicitly disclosed as a change from the source structure.

Multilingual fields prefer the requested three-letter TED language, then English, then a deterministic available language. Procedure-level estimated value takes priority. Lot values are summed only when their currencies are compatible; otherwise the value is omitted instead of manufacturing a total. Missing titles, values, or links remain missing. Dates, notice types, buyer names, and deadlines can be corrected by publishers, so schedule a fresh run before acting and retain retrieved_at_utc.

The API currently permits anonymous search, but availability and rate limits remain controlled by the source. Pagination is bounded to 5,000 source notices and 500 returned records. When a source result set is larger, each row says so through source_scan_truncated. This is preferable to silently returning an apparently complete subset.

Pricing

The first 10 returned records in each run are free. Each additional official_eu_tender costs $0.004. There is no start fee. The launch uses Pay per event + usage, so Apify platform usage is billed separately to the account running the Actor, including runs that return only free rows. At the hard maxItems=500 ceiling, the maximum custom event charge is $1.96.

Responsible use and support

This feed is discovery infrastructure, not legal, procurement, financial, or bid advice. Buyers can amend, cancel, postpone, or clarify notices. Users must read the linked official notice, confirm eligibility, deadlines, documents, language, jurisdiction, and applicable procurement rules before relying on a record. For a reproducible parsing or filtering issue, open the Actor's Apify Issues tab with the run ID, notice ID, query, and official URL.