# EU Tender Monitor — TED Public Procurement (`relevate/eu-tender-monitor`) Actor

Monitor EU public procurement tenders from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). Filter by CPV codes, countries, keywords and deadlines. Monitor mode returns only NEW tenders since the last run — ideal for scheduled bid-team alerts and AI agents.

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

from $5.00 / 1,000 tender returneds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## EU Tender Monitor — TED Public Procurement Scraper

Monitor **EU public procurement tenders** from [TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)](https://ted.europa.eu) — the official journal where every above-threshold public contract in the EU must be published.

Filter by **CPV codes**, **countries**, **keywords** and **deadlines**. Turn on **monitor mode** and schedule the actor to get **only new tenders since the last run** — a zero-noise daily feed for your bid team, CRM, or AI agent.

### Why this actor

- ✅ **Official data source** — uses the public TED API (no scraping of protected sites, no legal gray zone, no broken selectors).
- ✅ **All 27 EU countries + EEA** — one actor for your entire market.
- ✅ **Monitor mode** — remembers what you've already seen; a scheduled run outputs only *new* tenders. Perfect for daily alerts.
- ✅ **Bid-ready fields** — buyer, submission deadline, estimated contract value, CPV classification, direct links to the notice (HTML/PDF/XML).
- ✅ **AI-agent friendly** — clean JSON output; plug it into an LLM to score tender fit against your company profile.

### Typical use cases

| Who | How |
|---|---|
| Bid / tender teams | Daily scheduled run → email or Slack with new tenders matching your CPV + country |
| Sales teams (IT, construction, consulting) | Track which public contracts your prospects and competitors are bidding for (add `can-standard` notice type for award data) |
| AI agents / RAG pipelines | Feed structured tender JSON into an agent that drafts go/no-go recommendations |
| Market analysts | Pull historical publication volumes by CPV and country |

### Input

| Field | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `countries` | `["CZE", "SVK", "DEU"]` | Place of performance. ISO alpha-3 preferred; two-letter codes (`CZ`, `SK`, `DE`) are accepted and converted automatically. Empty = whole EU. |
| `cpvCodes` | `["72", "48"]` | Prefix match. 72 = IT services, 48 = software, 45 = construction, 79 = business services, 71 = engineering. |
| `keywords` | `"cloud OR kubernetes"` | Optional full-text search. |
| `daysBack` | `7` | Publication window. |
| `noticeTypes` | `["cn-standard"]` | Contract notices (default). Add `can-standard` for contract awards. |
| `onlyOpenDeadlines` | `true` | Drop tenders you can no longer bid on. |
| `monitorMode` | `true` | Only new tenders since last run (per filter combination). |
| `maxResults` | `200` | Safety cap. |

### Output example

```json
{
    "publicationNumber": "453020-2026",
    "title": "Czechia – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support",
    "buyer": "Ministerstvo zemědělství",
    "country": "CZE",
    "deadline": "2026-07-27",
    "estimatedValue": 36000000,
    "currency": "CZK",
    "cpv": "72000000",
    "noticeType": "cn-standard",
    "publicationDate": "2026-07-08",
    "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/453020-2026",
    "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/453020-2026/pdf"
}
```

Every run also writes a `RUN_SUMMARY` record to the key-value store with the result counts, the resolved filters and the exact TED query used — handy for integrations, debugging and AI agents.

### Scheduling a daily alert

1. Set your filters, enable `monitorMode`.
2. Create a **Schedule** in Apify Console (e.g. every morning at 7:00).
3. Add an **integration** (email, Slack, webhook, Make, Zapier) on the actor run — you'll only be notified when there are new tenders.

### Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee per run start plus a fee per tender returned. You only pay for results — an empty monitor run costs almost nothing.

### Data source & fair use

All data comes from the official, publicly funded [TED API](https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/latest/index.html). TED data is free to reuse under the EU open-data policy. This actor does not collect personal data.

### Roadmap

- CZ national tenders below EU threshold (NEN / Věstník veřejných zakázek)
- SK national tenders (ÚVO)
- German Vergabe portals
- Tender-fit scoring with your company profile

# Actor input Schema

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

Country codes to monitor, e.g. DEU (or DE), CZE, SVK, AUT, POL. Leave empty for all of the EU.

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

CPV classification prefixes, e.g. 72 (IT services), 48 (software), 45 (construction), 79 (business services). '72' matches every CPV starting with 72. Full codes like 72212000 also work.

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Optional full-text keywords (TED expert query FT operator). Example: cloud OR kubernetes.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How many days back to search. Ignored when monitor mode has already stored a checkpoint (then it continues from the last seen publication).

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

TED notice types. Default = active competition notices only (contract notices). Add 'can-standard' for contract award notices (market intelligence about winners).

## `onlyOpenDeadlines` (type: `boolean`):

Drop tenders whose submission deadline already passed.

## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers which tenders were already returned (per this actor + your account) and outputs only new ones. Combine with a schedule for daily alerts.

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

Safety cap on the number of tenders returned per run.

## `minExpectedResults` (type: `integer`):

Health check: when set, the run fails if it returns fewer tenders than this. Use it in scheduled pipelines to get alerted when a data source breaks instead of silently receiving an empty dataset. Leave empty (or 0) to disable. Do not combine with monitor mode, where an empty result is normal.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "DEU",
    "CZE",
    "SVK"
  ],
  "cpvCodes": [
    "45",
    "71"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard",
    "can-standard"
  ],
  "onlyOpenDeadlines": true,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "maxResults": 200,
  "minExpectedResults": 0
}
```

# 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 = {
    "cpvCodes": [
        "72",
        "48"
    ],
    "noticeTypes": [
        "cn-standard",
        "cn-social",
        "pin-cfc-standard"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("relevate/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 = {
    "cpvCodes": [
        "72",
        "48",
    ],
    "noticeTypes": [
        "cn-standard",
        "cn-social",
        "pin-cfc-standard",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("relevate/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 '{
  "cpvCodes": [
    "72",
    "48"
  ],
  "noticeTypes": [
    "cn-standard",
    "cn-social",
    "pin-cfc-standard"
  ]
}' |
apify call relevate/eu-tender-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,relevate/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/pl1XQSSmLqUjIoOOQ/builds/NjiMCdoFtXRf8Eosh/openapi.json