# EU TED Tenders API — Public Procurement Notices & Deadlines (`scarlet_harrier/eu-ted-tenders`) Actor

Search EU public procurement notices on TED by keyword, country, CPV code and publication date. One row per notice with title, buyer, CPV codes, deadline, estimated value and link. Official TED API, no key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scarlet_harrier/eu-ted-tenders.md
- **Developed by:** [Upton & Partners](https://apify.com/scarlet_harrier) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.50 / 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

## EU TED Tenders API — Public Procurement Notices & Deadlines

Search EU public procurement notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) by keyword, country, CPV code and publication date. Get one clean row per notice — title, buyer, CPV codes, deadline, estimated value and a link — as a table you can export to CSV, JSON or Excel, or pull via API.

Uses the **official TED Search API** (`api.ted.europa.eu`) run by the Publications Office of the European Union. No API key, no scraping, no proxies.

### What it does

- **Searches TED notices** with keywords, buyer countries, CPV codes, notice types and a publication date range
- **Understands CPV hierarchy**: searching `72000000` (IT services) also matches every sub-category
- **Accepts 2- or 3-letter country codes** (`DE` or `DEU`)
- **Returns tender essentials**: notice ID, title, buyer name and country, CPV codes, notice type, publication date, submission deadline, estimated value and currency, and a link to the notice on ted.europa.eu
- **Pages through large result sets** and keeps whatever it has already saved if a later page fails

### Use cases

- Tender alerts for bid teams and consultancies
- Market research: who buys what, where, and for how much
- Lead generation for suppliers selling to the public sector
- Procurement analytics and competitor tracking across EU member states

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Words or phrases to find in the notice (any matches). Optional. |
| `countries` | Buyer country, e.g. `DE`, `FR`, `IRL`. Optional. |
| `cpvCodes` | CPV codes, e.g. `72000000`. Sub-categories are included. Optional. |
| `noticeTypes` | TED notice types, e.g. `cn-standard`, `can-standard`. Optional. |
| `publishedFrom` / `publishedTo` | Publication date range, `YYYY-MM-DD`. Default: the last 30 days. |
| `maxResults` | Cap on notices returned. Default 100. |

```json
{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity"],
  "countries": ["DE", "FR"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-10-24",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "noticeId": "737053-2026",
  "title": "Návrh a vývoj AI řešení pro laserová zařízení",
  "buyerName": "Narran s.r.o.",
  "buyerCountry": "CZE",
  "cpvCodes": ["72230000", "72200000"],
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-23",
  "deadline": "2026-11-23",
  "estimatedValue": 4440000,
  "currency": "CZK",
  "valueType": "estimated",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/737053-2026"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per notice returned. You only pay for results.

### Notes

- Uses the official, free TED Search API. Data is public procurement information published by the Publications Office of the European Union. TED notices may be reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes; the source is TED (https://ted.europa.eu) and the TED name and logos are not licensed for your own use. See the [TED legal notice](https://ted.europa.eu/en/legal-notice).
- Titles are shown in the language the buyer published (English where TED provides it). Estimated value is the procedure value, or the sum of lot values when they share a currency; award notices show the awarded value (`valueType: "awarded"`). Not every notice states a value or a deadline, so those fields can be `null`.
- Sorted newest first. If nothing matches, the run finishes with zero results and you pay nothing.
- Business notices name organisations, not private individuals; no personal data is collected beyond what buyers publish in the notice.
- This Actor was built and is maintained with AI assistance, with human review. Issues are answered within a few days.

# Actor input Schema

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

Words or phrases to find in the notice text (any of them matches). Leave empty to filter only by country, CPV code or date.

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

Country of the buying authority, as a 2-letter (DE, FR, IE) or 3-letter (DEU, FRA, IRL) ISO code. Leave empty for all countries.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, e.g. 72000000 (IT services). A code also matches all of its sub-categories. Shorter codes such as 72 are padded to 72000000.

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

TED notice type codes, e.g. cn-standard (contract notice), can-standard (contract award notice), pin-only (prior information notice). Leave empty for all types.

## `publishedFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: 30 days ago.

## `publishedTo` (type: `string`):

Latest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today.

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

Stop after this many notices in total.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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": [
        "cybersecurity"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scarlet_harrier/eu-ted-tenders").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": ["cybersecurity"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scarlet_harrier/eu-ted-tenders").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": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ]
}' |
apify call scarlet_harrier/eu-ted-tenders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/81UkcbdDDyZRb6rFw/builds/rcbitWm5ezv8luG8w/openapi.json