# EU Tenders Search (TED) - Public Procurement Notices & Awards (`se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search`) Actor

Search EU public procurement notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) by keyword, CPV code, buyer country, notice type, publication date or open bid deadline. Returns title, buyer, values, deadline, CPV, winners and links. Official TED Search API, no key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Patrick Hebert](https://apify.com/se7enmethod) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 results

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## EU Tenders Search (TED) - Public Procurement Notices & Awards

Search **all EU public procurement notices** published on **TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)**, the official journal for tenders above EU thresholds (~700k notices a year from 27 EU states plus EEA and others), through the official **TED Search API**. No scraping, key, login or proxy.

### Use cases

- **Bid & tender alerts**: schedule daily runs for your keywords, CPV codes and countries and get only tenders still open for bids.
- **Sales prospecting**: find public buyers that purchase your product or service, with budgets.
- **Competitor & market intelligence**: award notices with winner names, countries, SME flags and contract values.
- **Consultants & bid writers**: build pipelines of opportunities for clients.

### Input

```json
{ "keywords": ["cybersecurity"], "cpvCodes": ["72000000"], "countries": ["DEU", "FRA"], "noticeKind": "contract-notices", "openForBidsOnly": true, "maxPerQuery": 200 }
```

CPV codes match their sub-codes (72000000 covers all IT services). Country codes are ISO alpha-3 (DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP, POL, NLD, IRL...). Use `noticeKind: award-notices` for results with winners.

### Output (one row per notice)

`publicationNumber, title, buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerCity, buyerWebsite, publicationDate, tenderDeadline, formType, noticeType, procedureType, contractNature, cpvCodes, placeOfPerformance, estimatedValue, estimatedValueCurrency, totalValue, totalValueCurrency, winnerNames, winnerCountries, winnerSizes, submissionUrl, documentsUrl, description, noticeUrl, pdfUrl, xmlUrl`. Queries with no matches or a query syntax error return `found: false` (with the API's error message) and are not charged.

### Pricing

Pay per result (per notice returned).

### Notes & attribution

Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Procurement notices are reused under the Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU). This actor reformats the data (selected fields, preferred-language text); it is not an official TED product, and the Publications Office of the EU does not endorse it. Fields depend on the notice (eForms notices since Oct 2023 are the richest); not every notice states values or winners. Personal contact details are not exported.

# Actor input Schema

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

Full-text search, one query per line, e.g. cybersecurity, road maintenance, cloud hosting.

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

Optional. Business-sector codes, e.g. 72000000 (IT services) matches all its sub-codes. Applies to every query.

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

Optional, e.g. DEU, FRA, IRL, NLD, POL.

## `noticeKind` (type: `string`):

contract-notices = open calls for tender (competition), award-notices = results with winners.

## `openForBidsOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keeps notices whose tender deadline is today or later.

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

Published from (YYYY-MM-DD).

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

Published until (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `publicationNumbers` (type: `array`):

Bulk lookup, e.g. 722952-2026.

## `expertQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional raw TED expert query, e.g. buyer-city="Paris". Combined with the filters above.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language used for titles and descriptions when TED has a translation.

## `maxPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Max notices per query.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Max results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "cybersecurity"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "DEU",
    "FRA"
  ],
  "noticeKind": "contract-notices",
  "openForBidsOnly": false,
  "language": "eng",
  "maxPerQuery": 250,
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All results in the default dataset (Overview view selected).

# 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"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "DEU",
        "FRA"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search").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"],
    "countries": [
        "DEU",
        "FRA",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search").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"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "DEU",
    "FRA"
  ]
}' |
apify call se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,se7enmethod/ted-eu-tenders-search"
        }
    }
}
```

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/YwAXCwKlgV00xgHro/builds/70XZlaDEfgJvB7VpY/openapi.json