EU Tenders Watch: New TED Notices, CPV Labels & EUR Values

EU Tenders Watch finds new EU public tenders and government contracts in Europe published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). Filter by CPV code, country, keyword, date and value.

• Get a daily shortlist of new TED notices for your sector and countries.
• Read English CPV labels alongside the buyer's title or TED's English headline.
• Compare stated values in EUR using ECB reference rates; unknown values stay empty.
• Enable Only new since last run and give each watch its own name.
• Schedule in Apify and export the rows to CSV, Excel or your own integration.

Try it now: click Start. The form is prefilled with CPV 72000000 (IT services), so your first run returns the newest IT tenders in under a minute.

Data comes from the official TED Search API. No scraping, no login, no proxy.

Source: TED, Publications Office of the EU. Data changed by this Actor (see "Credit, changes made"). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Union or the Publications Office of the EU.

What does EU Tenders Watch do?

• 🔎 Searches TED public procurement notices by CPV code, buyer country, keyword, publication date and value.
• 🇬🇧 English headline where TED has one. The buyer's English title if there is one, otherwise TED's English headline (country and sector in English, the buyer's own words in their language). The original is kept.
• 🏷️ Adds CPV labels. Every CPV code gets its English name (9,454 codes from the official EU list).
• 💶 Converts values to EUR with the European Central Bank reference rate of the run day.
• 🧹 Skips repeats. Duplicate rows inside a run are dropped, and a named watch skips notices it already returned.
• 🔔 Only new since last run. Schedule it and get only fresh tenders each time.
• 📤 Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it via the Apify API, or send results to email, Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook.

Who is it for? Use cases

• Bid and sales teams at IT, consulting, construction or service firms: get a daily list of open EU tenders in your CPV codes and countries.
• Lead generation: find public buyers that are spending money in your sector right now.
• Contract award research: switch to "Contract awards" to see who won, for which buyer, and for how much.
• Tender alert services and agencies: run one watch per client, each with its own name.
• Data teams: feed clean EU procurement data into a CRM, sheet or BI tool through the API.

How to get EU tender alerts

1. Open the Input tab. Add a CPV code (for example 72000000 for IT services), a country, a keyword, or all three.
2. Set Maximum results. You pay $0.003 per result, so this is also your cost cap (see Pricing).
3. Click Start. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the API.
4. For alerts: tick Only new since last run, give the watch a name, and add a Schedule (for example every morning).

Quick answers:

• A CPV code with trailing zeros also matches everything below it. 72000000 covers all IT services (72xxxxxx). 72200000 covers software programming and consultancy.
• Several CPV codes or countries are OR. Different filters are AND. Example: (CPV 72000000 or 48000000) and (DE or FR) and keyword "cloud".
• Notice type. Default is open tenders (contract notices). Switch to "Contract awards" to see who won, or "All".
• Newest first. If you cap the results, you get the newest notices.
• Advanced: the advancedQuery box takes any TED expert-search condition, added with AND (for example contract-nature=services). See the TED API docs.

What data you get: example output

One row per TED notice. Example (shortened):

{
  "noticeId": "741024-2026",
  "title": "Denmark – Software package and information systems – Rammeaftale for Standardsoftware - 26/21024",
  "titleSource": "ted-english-headline",
  "titleOriginal": "Rammeaftale for Standardsoftware - 26/21024",
  "buyerName": "Energinet",
  "buyerCountry": "DK",
  "cpvMain": "48000000",
  "cpvMainLabel": "Software package and information systems",
  "estimatedValue": 320000000,
  "currency": "DKK",
  "valueEur": 42810509.98,
  "deadline": "2026-11-03",
  "procedureTypeLabel": "Open procedure",
  "tedUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/741024-2026",
  "source": "Source: TED, Publications Office of the EU"
}

Every row carries the credit line Source: TED, Publications Office of the EU. Full field list: the Output tab (dataset schema).

Why use this TED tenders tool

Problem with raw TED data	What this Actor does
Titles come in 24 languages	title is the most English version TED has: the buyer's English title if there is one, otherwise TED's own English headline (country and CPV label in English, then the original title in its language). The original text is kept in titleOriginal.
CPV codes are numbers	cpvLabels gives the English name of every code (9,454 codes bundled from the official EU list).
Values come in 20+ currencies and in 5 different fields	One estimatedValue + currency + valueType, plus valueEur using the European Central Bank rate of the run day. If no rate exists, valueEur stays empty. We never guess.
The same notice shows up again and again	Duplicate rows inside a run are dropped. With Only new since last run, each named watch skips ids it already returned. Two runs of the same watch at the same moment can still overlap, so schedule one at a time.
You only want what is new	Turn on Only new since last run. The Actor remembers what it gave you. Schedule it daily and you get only fresh notices.
Errors are cryptic	Bad input gives a plain message ("CPV code 'abc' is not valid. Use 8 digits..."). TED errors are passed on with TED's own words.

Input examples

IT tenders in Germany and France, only new, for a daily schedule:

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "countries": ["DE", "FR"],
  "daysBack": 2,
  "sinceLastRun": true,
  "stateKey": "it-de-fr",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Cybersecurity or cloud tenders worth at least EUR 500,000:

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "cloud"],
  "keywordMode": "any",
  "keywordScope": "title",
  "minValueEur": 500000,
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Who won? Contract awards for software:

{
  "cpvCodes": ["48000000"],
  "noticeStage": "awards",
  "daysBack": 30,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Input fields

Field	What it does
cpvCodes	8-digit CPV codes (OR).
countries	Buyer countries, 2-letter codes (OR).
keywords, keywordMode, keywordScope	Words to find; any or all; in full text or title only.
noticeStage	contracts (default), awards, all.
daysBack or publishedFrom / publishedTo	Date range. Default: today and the 2 days before.
minValueEur, maxValueEur, includeUnknownValue	Value filter in EUR. Many notices state no value, so by default they are kept.
sinceLastRun, stateKey	Only-new mode and the name of the watch. Use one name per schedule.
includeDescription	Adds the description text (original language).
maxItems	Result cap. Default 100, hard cap 5,000 per run.

Tender alerts: how "Only new since last run" works

• The first run uses your normal date range and saves the ids it returned.
• Later runs start from the last publication date and skip every id already returned.
• If a run stops early (your maxItems or cost limit), the date does not move forward, so nothing is lost. The next run continues where you stopped.
• If you change the filters, the memory resets and the Actor tells you so in the log.

How much does it cost? Pricing

Pay per event: $3.00 per 1,000 results plus $0.005 per run start. You pay only for what you get.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Result (one row in the dataset)	$0.003 per result

Cost per 1,000 results: $3.00 + $0.005 start = $3.005. Platform usage (compute, storage) is included in these prices; you do not pay it on top.

Run	Cost
Default run (100 results)	$0.305
500 results	$1.505
1,000 results	$3.005
Worst case: 5,000 results (the hard cap)	$15.005
Empty run (nothing new)	$0.005

Cost alarms, built in:

• maxItems defaults to 100 and cannot exceed 5,000 per run. The run stops at that number, newest notices first.
• Apify "Maximum cost per run" is respected. If you set a budget, the Actor stops when it is used up and tells you in the status message.
• Scheduled watch? Turn on Only new since last run. A daily watch with a CPV filter usually returns a handful of rows, so it costs cents a month.
• Check Billing > Usage in Apify Console for your real spend.

Good to know (honest limits)

• English titles are English only in the CPV part. TED translates the country and the sector name. The buyer's own wording stays in its language unless the buyer also published an English title (about 1 in 9 notices). titleSource tells you which case you have.
• cpvMain is the first code listed, not a ranked "main" code. A notice matches your CPV filter if any of its lots has that code.
• Values are what the buyer wrote. Many notices have none. Estimated values are not contract prices.
• EUR conversion uses today's ECB rate, not the rate on the notice date. Use it to compare size, not for accounting.
• TED can be slow or busy. The Actor waits and retries politely (about one request per second, longer after a "too many requests" answer). If TED stays down, the run fails with a clear message and you can run again later.
• Range limit. TED lets us read 15,000 results per query. A wide range is read one day at a time. One single day with more than 15,000 matches needs a filter.
• This Actor reads public procurement notices. It is not legal or tendering advice. Check the notice on TED before you bid.

FAQ

Is this legal and allowed? Yes. It uses the official public TED Search API (no scraping, no login) and TED's reuse terms, with the credit below.

What is TED? Tenders Electronic Daily, the official EU platform where public buyers publish their procurement notices (all tenders above the EU value thresholds, and some below). This Actor reads it through the official API.

What is a CPV code? The Common Procurement Vocabulary: 8-digit codes that say what is being bought. 72000000 is IT services, 45000000 is construction work. Every row shows the English label of its codes.

Do I get all TED notices? You get the notices that match your filters and are published in your date range. TED itself decides what is published. Always check the notice on TED before you bid.

Why is my title partly in another language? Only about 1 in 9 buyers publish an English title. For the rest, TED's English headline translates the country and sector, and the buyer's text stays in its language. titleSource tells you which case it is.

Why is valueEur empty? The notice states no value, or no exchange rate exists for its currency. We never guess.

How do I get tender alerts by email or Slack? Tick Only new since last run, name the watch, add an Apify Schedule, and connect an integration (email, Slack, Zapier, Make, webhook).

Can I run several watches? Yes. Give each its own watch name.

Can I use it from my own code? Yes. Call it through the Apify API or the Apify clients for Python and JavaScript, and read the dataset as JSON or CSV.

What if TED is down? The Actor retries politely, then fails with a plain message. A failed run charges only the start event. Run it again later.

How do I report a problem or ask for a custom version? Use the Issues tab on this Actor page. Include the run link.

Credit, changes made, and terms

Source: TED, Publications Office of the EU. Notices are published on TED by the Publications Office of the European Union, which allows reuse, including commercial reuse, with credit. See the TED legal notice.

Changes made (transformations). This is not the original data. We changed it in these ways:

• English titles: the buyer's English title if given, otherwise TED's English headline. The original is kept in titleOriginal.
• CPV labels: English names added for every CPV code, from the official EU CPV list.
• EUR conversion: valueEur is calculated from the stated value with the European Central Bank reference rate of the run day.
• Duplicates removed, fields renamed and flattened, dates normalised.

Every row carries source: "Source: TED, Publications Office of the EU". If you republish this data, keep the credit and say that it was changed. The Actor does not use EU logos or emblems.

Not affiliated. This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the European Union or the Publications Office of the EU.

For developers

• Python 3.13, Apify SDK. Code is in src/: ted_client.py (polite API client), query.py (input to TED query), normalize.py (one clean row), pipeline.py (dedupe, since-last-run), main.py (Actor).
• Tests: python -m pytest (40 unit tests with a real saved TED response in tests/fixtures/).
• Live reliability check: python scripts/reliability.py 30 (writes launch/reliability-30.md).