EU Public Tender Search (TED)

Export current EU public-procurement notices from the official TED Search API into a spreadsheet or JSON feed.

The TED website already lets you search for free. Use this Actor when you need the same public notices as rows you can filter, schedule, and download: buyer, title, description, value, currency, deadline, and the official notice link. It does not log in to TED, scrape the website, or add information TED did not publish.

Why not just use the TED website?

TED is the source, and it stays free. The website is the right place to read one notice. This Actor is the right place to repeat a search:

• Every keyword has to match the title, unless you widen the search.
• The default keeps contract notices with a submission deadline that is still open. Award notices and closed notices stay out.
• Countries can be typed as Germany, DE, or DEU.
• The result is one row per notice, ready for CSV, Excel, a sheet, or an API call.
• Missing amounts, currencies, and descriptions stay null. They are never guessed.

What a precise search looks like

{
  "keywords": ["software"],
  "keywordMatch": "all",
  "keywordScope": "title",
  "countries": ["Germany"],
  "noticePurpose": "competition",
  "onlyOpenSubmissions": true,
  "minimumValue": 100000,
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 25
}

Input	Default	What it changes
keywords	none	Phrases to find. keywordMatch: all requires every phrase. any keeps a notice when one phrase matches.
keywordScope	title	description searches the procedure and lot text. fullText is the widest search.
countries	all countries	Buyer country. Names and ISO codes both work.
cpvCodes	none	CPV codes such as 72000000 for IT services.
noticePurpose	competition	award for results, planning for prior notices, all for every type.
minimumValue	0	A number above 0 keeps notices with a published estimated or total value at least that high. Notices without a value are left out.
onlyOpenSubmissions	true	Turn off to include closed and historical notices.
publishedWithinDays	30	Publication window, from 1 to 365 days.
maxResults	50	Stop after this many unique notices. Maximum 2,000.

Fields

Field	When TED publishes it
publicationNumber, tedUrl	Always
title, description	In the language TED provides. English is preferred when it exists. Descriptions longer than 2,000 characters are shortened.
buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerCity	Buyer identity
buyerEmail, buyerWebsite	Public buyer contact, when TED includes it
noticeType, procedureType	For example cn-standard and open
cpvCodes	Unique CPV codes
publicationDate, deadline	YYYY-MM-DD. The deadline is the submission deadline.
estimatedValue, estimatedValueCurrency	Procedure estimate and its currency, often EUR
totalValue, totalValueCurrency	Total value and its currency

A value without a currency, or a currency without a value, can happen because TED fills those fields separately. Both stay null when TED omits them.

Example

{
  "publicationNumber": "650347-2026",
  "description": "Vertrag zur besonderen Versorgung zur Verbesserung der digitalen, ärztlichen Versorgung für Patienten durch einen elektronischen Kommunikations- und Vernetzungsprozess nach § 140a SGB V über Videosprechstunde",
  "buyerName": "AOK Bayern - Die Gesundheitskasse",
  "buyerCountry": "DEU",
  "buyerCity": "München",
  "buyerEmail": "vergabestelle1@by.aok.de",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "cpvCodes": ["85100000"],
  "deadline": "2026-10-05",
  "estimatedValue": 2600500,
  "estimatedValueCurrency": "EUR",
  "totalValue": 2600500,
  "totalValueCurrency": "EUR",
  "tedUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/650347-2026",
  "source": "ted.europa.eu"
}

This example comes from fields the official API returned for that publication number. It is not a promise that every notice has an email or a value.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event. Platform usage is included in the price.

• $0.003 per saved notice, which is $3.00 per 1,000 notices
• $0.00005 when a run starts, once per GB of memory, with a minimum of one event
• Empty runs and failed searches do not add notice charges
• Duplicates are not written, so they are not charged

One run that saves 1,000 notices costs $3.00005. One thousand separate runs that each save one notice cost $3.05, because each run has its own start fee.

Examples:

• 25 notices in one run: $0.07505
• 100 notices in one run: $0.30005
• 1,000 notices in one run: $3.00005
• 10,000 notices, in runs of at most 2,000: $30.00025

Apify keeps 20% of event revenue. A measured 10-notice run used 256 MB for 2.5 seconds and cost $0.00019 of platform usage. From that measurement, about $2.38 of the $3.00 remains after Apify’s share and compute. That margin is an estimate, not a measured result for 1,000 notices.

Limits

• TED decides which fields exist. Many notices have no value and no email.
• The default search is deliberately narrow. Set noticePurpose to all, onlyOpenSubmissions to false, or keywordScope to fullText when you want the wider journal.
• A minimum value excludes notices that do not publish a value, even if the contract is large.
• Descriptions are shortened at 2,000 characters.
• Maximum 2,000 notices per run, and the publication window cannot exceed 365 days.
• You are responsible for your use of the data and for the TED terms of use.

FAQ

Does this replace the TED search page? No. It exports the public search result so you can reuse it. Open tedUrl to read the official notice.

Why are there fewer rows than on TED? The default keeps contract notices whose submission deadline is still open, and it requires every keyword to appear in the title. TED’s own search is broader.

Will every row have a budget? No. estimatedValue and totalValue are filled only when TED sends them. Use minimumValue above 0 if you want to drop notices without a published amount.