# EU TED Tenders - Public Procurement Notices Search (`staymeter-labs/eu-ted-tenders-search`) Actor

Search EU public procurement notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) by keyword, buyer country, CPV code and date. Official open API, structured output with deadline, estimated value, buyer and links. No key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/staymeter-labs/eu-ted-tenders-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Staymeter Labs](https://apify.com/staymeter-labs) (community)
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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# README

## EU TED Tenders Search — public procurement notices, official API

Search **every public tender published in the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)** by keyword, buyer country, CPV code, notice type and date — and get clean, structured JSON or CSV. Find new bids to respond to, monitor competitors' awards, or build a procurement dashboard.

### Why this Actor

- **Official source, no key.** Uses the European Commission's public TED Search API (v3). No browser, no proxies, no API key, no CAPTCHAs.
- **Multilingual data made simple.** TED returns every title as a dictionary of 24 languages and every lot as a parallel array. This Actor picks one clean title, buyer and deadline per notice, sums lot values (only when they share a currency) and exposes direct links to the notice page, PDF and XML.
- **Incremental monitoring.** Set *Published in the last N days* and schedule the Actor daily to receive only new notices. Notices are de-duplicated and only the latest version of each is returned.
- **Powerful filters.** Full-text keywords in any EU language, ISO country codes (`DE` or `DEU`), CPV codes or CPV branches (`72` = all IT services), notice types, contract nature (supplies / services / works) and *open for submissions only*.
- **Reliable.** Retries on rate limits and server errors, clear errors for invalid queries.

### Output

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `publicationNumber` | `667907-2026` |
| `noticeType` | `cn-standard` (contract notice), `can-standard` (award), `pin-only`… |
| `publicationDate` | `2026-09-29` |
| `title`, `description` | Title in English if available, else the original language |
| `buyerName`, `buyerCountry` | `Stadt Chemnitz`, `["DEU"]` |
| `performanceCountries` | `["DEU"]` |
| `contractNature`, `procedureType` | `["services"]`, `open` |
| `cpvCodes` | `["72200000"]` |
| `lotCount` | `3` |
| `estimatedValue`, `currency` | `966000`, `EUR` (`null` when the buyer did not publish one) |
| `awardedValue`, `awardedCurrency` | Total value on award notices |
| `deadline` | Earliest submission deadline, `2026-10-29` |
| `tedUrl`, `pdfUrl`, `xmlUrl` | Links to the official notice |

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "667907-2026",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-29",
  "title": "Nährstoffmanagement",
  "buyerName": "Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen Geschäftsbüro Landwirtschaft Oldenburg",
  "buyerCountry": ["DEU"],
  "contractNature": ["services"],
  "procedureType": "open",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "estimatedValue": null,
  "deadline": "2026-10-29",
  "tedUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/667907-2026"
}
```

### Input examples

New IT-services tenders from Germany and France in the last 3 days that are still open:

```json
{ "keywords": "software", "buyerCountries": ["DE", "FR"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "sinceDays": 3, "openOnly": true }
```

Contract awards in the Netherlands since 1 September:

```json
{ "noticeTypes": ["can-standard"], "buyerCountries": ["NL"], "sinceDate": "2026-09-01", "maxItems": 1000 }
```

### Use cases

- Bid teams: a daily list of new tenders matching your CPV codes and countries.
- Market research: who buys what, where and for how much.
- Competitor and award tracking with `can-*` notices.
- Feeding procurement data to dashboards, spreadsheets or AI agents (works via the Apify MCP server).

### Limits

- `estimatedValue` is only present when the buyer published it, so many notices have `null`.
- Only notices published on TED are covered (above-threshold EU procurement); national below-threshold tenders are not.
- `maxItems` defaults to 100; raise it for bulk runs.
- Not affiliated with the European Union. Source: TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (© European Union). Notices may be reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the original notices published on TED remain the legal reference.

### Pricing

Free to use — you only pay Apify's standard platform usage, which is tiny because this Actor calls an official API directly (no browser, no proxies).

# Actor input Schema

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

Full-text search across notice text (any EU language). Leave empty to list all notices matching the other filters.

## `buyerCountries` (type: `array`):

Country of the contracting authority: ISO 3166 codes such as DEU, FRA, ITA or DE, FR, IT. Leave empty for all countries.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes. A full 8-digit code matches exactly; a shorter prefix matches the whole branch (e.g. 72 = IT services, 45 = construction, 33 = medical equipment).

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

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

## `contractNature` (type: `string`):

Restrict to supplies, services or works contracts.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

Only notices published within the last N days. Ignored if Since date is set. Use with a schedule for daily monitoring.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

Only notices published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `untilDate` (type: `string`):

Only notices published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `openOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Restrict to notices whose submission deadline has not passed yet.

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

Stop after this many notices.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": "software",
  "contractNature": "any",
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "openOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 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": "software"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("staymeter-labs/eu-ted-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": "software" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("staymeter-labs/eu-ted-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": "software"
}' |
apify call staymeter-labs/eu-ted-tenders-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,staymeter-labs/eu-ted-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/eRlfbLH1kOKn5kdUI/builds/6oLAw0QoN9atw0bUa/openapi.json