Danish Public Procurement Scraper — Udbud.dk Tenders

Search and extract Danish public procurement tenders from udbud.dk, the official national tender portal operated by Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen (the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority). Filter by keyword or status. Returns tender title, buyer, deadline, estimated value, CPV codes, NUTS region, and buyer contact info. No API key, no cookies, no login required.

How to scrape Udbud.dk data

This actor calls udbud.dk's own public search API directly — the same JSON endpoint the site's search page uses — rather than parsing rendered HTML. All Danish public bodies are required to publish procurement notices on udbud.dk, including notices below the EU publication threshold that never reach TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), making it the most complete source for Danish government contract opportunities: municipalities, regions, state agencies, universities, and hospitals.

Enter your search keywords (Danish works best — the source site is Danish), pick a status filter, and run. The actor pulls the search result list, then optionally fetches each tender's notice page to add the NUTS region and buyer contact details that aren't in the list view.

Who benefits from this data?

• Government contractors — Monitor new procurement opportunities daily across Danish municipalities (kommuner), regions, and state agencies. Never miss a relevant tender in your industry.
• Market researchers — Analyze Danish public spending patterns, procurement volumes, and contract award trends across sectors and regions.
• B2B sales teams — Identify which Danish public bodies are buying what you sell. Build targeted prospect lists across the Danish public procurement market.
• Consultancies and advisory firms — Track procurement activity by CPV category or region to advise clients on Danish market entry and bidding strategy.
• Compliance and legal teams — Monitor competitor contract awards and verify procurement procedural compliance.
• EU/EEA market intelligence — Larger Danish tenders above EU thresholds are also cross-published on TED; udbud.dk additionally carries the below-threshold national notices that TED never sees.

Search by keyword

Enter any keyword to find relevant tenders. The search matches against the tender title and description. Examples: "IT konsulent", "rengøring" (cleaning), "byggeri" (construction), "konsulentydelser" (consultancy services), "vedligeholdelse" (maintenance).

Filter by status

• Active only — tenders currently open, in evaluation, or otherwise live right now
• All — includes closed, awarded, and archived notices too (competitor and market-history intelligence)

Sort order

Sort by publication date (newest first, good for daily monitoring), submission deadline (soonest-closing first), or relevance (only meaningful when a keyword is set).

Region and contact enrichment

With fetchRegionAndContact on (the default), the actor makes one extra request per tender to pull the NUTS region code and the buyer's published email/phone, when available. Turn it off for a much faster run if you only need the list-level fields.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	String	IT konsulent	Free-text search matched against tender title and description (Danish keywords work best)
udbudStatus	Enum	active	active (open/live only) or all (incl. closed/awarded/archived)
sortBy	Enum	publicationDate	publicationDate, deadline, or relevance
sortDirection	Enum	desc	desc (newest/soonest first) or asc
fetchRegionAndContact	Boolean	true	Fetch NUTS region + buyer contact per tender (one extra request each)
maxResults	Integer	50	Maximum number of tenders to return (1–5,000)
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify proxy	Apify proxy settings

What data does this scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
itemTitle	String	Tender title
referenceNumber	String	udbud.dk notice ID
organization	String	Buyer (contracting authority) name
status	String	Competition, Result, Planning, Direct award preannouncement, Contract modification
publicationDate	String	Date the notice was published (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)
deadline	String	Bid submission deadline (ISO datetime), when open
estimatedValue	String	Estimated contract value
currency	String	DKK or EUR, as published
category	String	CPV classification title
cpvCodes	Array	CPV classification code + description
region	String	NUTS region name and code, e.g. Østjylland (DK042)
itemDescription	String	Full tender description
contactInfo	Object	Buyer contact e-mail / phone, when published
url	String	Direct link to the tender on udbud.dk
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of when the data was scraped
buyerCvr	String	Buyer's Danish CVR (company registration) number
coBuyers	Array	Other public bodies named as co-buyers on a joint procurement
isAmendment	Boolean	true if this notice amends an earlier one

Example output

{
    "itemTitle": "EIT Water - Think Tank Foresight Paper",
    "referenceNumber": "0ab400b4-c0e0-45c7-97f7-da798c918b9b",
    "organization": "Aarhus Universitet",
    "status": "Competition",
    "publicationDate": "2026-08-31",
    "deadline": "2026-09-11T08:00:00Z",
    "estimatedValue": "50000",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "category": "Research and development services and related consultancy services",
    "cpvCodes": [
        { "code": "73000000", "description": "Research and development services and related consultancy services" }
    ],
    "region": "Østjylland (DK042)",
    "itemDescription": "Open procedure regarding the procurement of consultancy services for a Think Tank foresight paper for Aarhus University on behalf of EIT Water.",
    "contactInfo": { "E-mail": "mane@au.dk", "Telefon": "93522402" },
    "url": "https://udbud.dk/detaljevisning?noticeId=0ab400b4-c0e0-45c7-97f7-da798c918b9b&noticeVersion=01&noticePublicationNumber=",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-31T14:09:50.612Z",
    "buyerCvr": "31119103",
    "coBuyers": [],
    "isAmendment": false
}

Tips for best results

• Daily monitoring: Run on a schedule with udbudStatus: "active" and sortBy: "publicationDate" to catch new tenders within hours of publication.
• Danish keywords: The search matches native Danish text — English keywords will miss most results. Use "rengøring" not "cleaning", "byggeri" not "construction".
• Competitor intelligence: Switch udbudStatus to all and search for competitor names or specific service descriptions to track what contracts they're pursuing or winning.
• Combine with TED: For full EU procurement coverage, pair this actor with our TED actor. Larger Danish tenders above EU thresholds appear on both udbud.dk and TED; udbud.dk alone additionally carries the below-threshold national-only notices.
• Turn off enrichment for speed: If you only need title, buyer, deadline, and value, disable fetchRegionAndContact to roughly halve the run time.

How much does it cost to run?

The udbud.dk data source is free and requires no login. Your only cost is Apify compute time and proxy usage. With region/contact enrichment on, each tender requires one extra request, so run time scales roughly linearly with maxResults.

Search size	Estimated time	Estimated cost
20 tenders	~15 seconds	$0.01 ($0.0005 per result)
100 tenders	~1 minute	$0.04 ($0.0004 per result)
500 tenders	~5 minutes	$0.15 ($0.0003 per result)

Actual cost depends on Apify plan and proxy usage; a run's final usage cost only settles after the run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run will undercount it.

Use as an API

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("studio-amba/udbud-dk-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "byggeri",
    "udbudStatus": "active",
    "maxResults": 50,
})

for tender in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{tender['itemTitle']} | {tender['organization']} | Deadline: {tender['deadline']}")

Limitations

• Search is in Danish: udbud.dk is a Danish-language portal; the free-text search matches native Danish terms, not translated English equivalents.
• Estimated value often absent: like most EU procurement portals, not every notice discloses a contract value before award (roughly 70% do, based on live sampling).
• Region/contact enrichment is best-effort: it's pulled from the notice's eForms detail markup, which is the piece of the site most likely to change; a miss on a single tender never fails the run.
• 100 results per search page: pagination is handled automatically, but very large maxResults values mean more requests and longer run times.

Other European procurement scrapers

Check the Studio AMBA actor catalog for more European public procurement data, including eTenders (Ireland), DOFFIN (Norway), TenderNed (Netherlands), TED (EU-wide), and Belgian public procurement.

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