EU Tenders (TED): Contract Notices and Awards API

What it does: returns European public procurement notices from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's official journal for public contracts) as flat JSON records: title, an English headline, buyer, buyer country and city, CPV codes, estimated value and currency, tender deadline, whether it is still open, and the official notice link. For contract award notices it also returns the awarded value and the winning companies. Filter by country, full-text keyword, CPV code, value, date and "still open".

Why use it instead of scraping the TED website: it reads the official, documented TED Search API of the EU Publications Office, so there is no HTML parsing to break. TED's raw data uses nested, multilingual fields with one entry per lot; this Actor flattens each notice into one record with one value per field and picks your preferred language.

Use cases

• Find EU government contracts to bid on. Get a daily or weekly list of open calls for tenders in your sector and countries, with deadline, estimated value and buyer.
• See who won. Pull contract award notices to track which companies win public contracts in which countries, and for how much.
• Watch the pipeline. Prior information notices show what buyers plan to procure before the tender opens.
• Feed other tools. Results are plain JSON records, so they drop into a spreadsheet, a CRM, a Slack alert or an AI agent.

Input

{
  "stages": ["competition"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "countries": ["DE", "AT"],
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud hosting"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "valueCurrency": "EUR",
  "openOnly": true,
  "language": "eng",
  "maxItems": 200
}

• stages: competition (calls for tenders, default), planning (prior information notices), result (contract award notices).
• daysBack (1–31, default 7), or dateFrom / dateTo (YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive, at most 31 days apart). Dates are TED publication dates.
• countries: buyer countries as ISO codes, two or three letters (DE or DEU).
• keywords: TED full-text search over the whole notice. A notice matches if any keyword or phrase appears. Notices are in the buyer's language, so add translations as separate entries.
• cpvCodes: keeps a notice if any of its CPV codes falls under one of these. Trailing zeros widen the match: 72000000 matches all of 72xxxxxx (IT services) and 45 all construction work.
• minValue / maxValue with valueCurrency (default EUR): compared with the estimated value, or with the awarded value when no estimate is published. There is no currency conversion: notices in other currencies, or with no value, are dropped when you set either one.
• openOnly: keeps only notices whose tender deadline is still in the future.
• language: preferred language for title, description, buyer name and city (3-letter code such as eng, deu, fra). Falls back to English, then to the notice's own language.
• maxItems (default 200), maxPages (default 20; each page scans up to 100 notices).

Output

One record per notice. A real example (call for tenders published 2026-10-08, fetched 2026-10-11; description shortened here):

{
  "publication_number": "692801-2026",
  "form_type": "competition",
  "notice_type": "cn-standard",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-08",
  "title": "Request for Tenders for the Provision of an Airlifting Service of Materials at Connemara National Park; Wild Nephin National Park; and Burren National Park",
  "headline_en": "Ireland – Hire of helicopters with crew – Request for Tenders for the Provision of an Airlifting Service of Materials at Connemara National Park; Wild Nephin National Park; and Burren National Park",
  "description": "The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) intends to engage the professional services of a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to participate in a Single Party Framework Agreement for the...",
  "buyer_name": "Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage",
  "buyer_country": "IRL",
  "buyer_city": "Wexford",
  "cpv_codes": ["60424120", "60400000"],
  "contract_nature": ["services"],
  "procedure_type": "open",
  "place_of_performance": ["IE042", "IRL"],
  "estimated_value": 1500000.0,
  "estimated_value_currency": "EUR",
  "tender_deadline": "2026-11-10T17:00:00+01:00",
  "is_open": true,
  "awarded_value": null,
  "awarded_value_currency": null,
  "winners": [],
  "winner_countries": [],
  "winners_withheld": 0,
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/692801-2026",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-11T04:27:24Z"
}

A contract award notice (stages: ["result"]) from the same day has, for example, "awarded_value": 509561.0, "awarded_value_currency": "EUR", "winners": ["Rosenbauer Deutschland GmbH", "Wolfgang Jahn GmbH"], "winner_countries": ["DEU"].

Field	Meaning
publication_number	TED notice number, e.g. 692801-2026
form_type, notice_type	Stage (competition, planning, result) and TED notice type (e.g. cn-standard, can-standard, pin-only)
publication_date	Date the notice was published on TED
title, description	Procedure title and description in your preferred language when available. Descriptions are cut at 3,000 characters; email addresses and phone numbers are replaced with [email removed] / [phone removed]
headline_en	TED's English headline: country – main CPV category – title
buyer_name, buyer_country, buyer_city	The contracting authority (country as ISO 3-letter code)
cpv_codes	All CPV codes on the notice and its lots
contract_nature, procedure_type	works / supplies / services; procedure such as open, restricted, neg-w-call
place_of_performance	NUTS region and country codes where the work is done
estimated_value, estimated_value_currency	Estimated value of the procedure, when the buyer published it
tender_deadline, is_open	Earliest lot deadline for tenders (date-time with the buyer's UTC offset), and whether it is still in the future at fetch time
awarded_value, awarded_value_currency	Award notices: total value of the awarded contracts
winners, winner_countries	Award notices: winning companies that are clearly organisations, and the winners' countries
winners_withheld	Award notices: how many winners were not named, because they may be individuals (see Limits)
url	The official TED notice page

FAQ

How do I get EU tenders as JSON or CSV? Run the Actor with the filters you want. Results land in an Apify dataset, which you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API.

What is TED? Tenders Electronic Daily is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. Public buyers in the EU and EEA must publish contracts above the EU thresholds there. This Actor reads it through the official TED Search API.

How do I get only IT or software tenders in Germany? Set countries to ["DE"] and cpvCodes to ["72000000", "48000000"] (IT services and software packages). Add openOnly: true to see only tenders you can still bid on.

Can I see which company won a contract? Yes. Set stages to ["result"]. Each record has awarded_value and a winners list. Winners that may be individuals are counted but not named (see Limits).

How do I get new EU tenders every day? Create an Apify schedule that runs the Actor daily with daysBack: 2. daysBack counts calendar days in UTC including today, so 1 means today only. With 2 each notice appears on two consecutive runs; use publication_number to skip the ones you have already seen.

Why do keyword searches miss some notices? Notices are written in the buyer's language. Add each keyword in the languages you need, e.g. ["software", "Software", "logiciel", "oprogramowanie"], or filter by CPV code, which is language-independent.

Does it return contact details? No. Contact names, emails, phone numbers and addresses are never requested from TED. Each record links to the official notice.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.005 per run (start).
• $0.002 per notice returned, so $2 per 1,000 notices.

You only pay for notices that match your filters. Notices scanned and filtered out are free. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify to cap spend.

Limits

• Date range: at most 31 days per run. For longer histories, run once per month.
• A run stops after maxPages pages of 100 notices (default 20). TED publishes about 1,900 calls for tenders and 1,400 award notices per working day (Sep–Oct 2026), so wide runs without filters stop early; the log says when.
• Values, deadlines, CPV codes and cities are only present when the buyer published them. Value filters do not convert currencies.
• tender_deadline is the earliest deadline across the notice's lots.
• Winner names are returned only when the winner is clearly an organisation: its name carries a legal-entity form (GmbH, AG, S.A., S.p.A., SRL, Sp. z o.o., s.r.o., d.o.o., Ltd, Oy, AB and similar) or it is a public body (university, hospital, municipality...). Other winners may be sole traders or other individuals, so they are counted in winners_withheld but not named. Their names are on the official notice (url). In 1,000 award notices published 1–9 October 2026, 591 of 1,803 winners (33%) were withheld; companies that omit their legal form from their name are withheld too.
• Partnerships named after their partners (such as German GbR or Polish spółka jawna) are withheld, because their names are people's names.
• Source: TED, © European Union, reused under the TED legal notice. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the EU Publications Office.