# TED EU Tenders API – European Public Procurement Notices (`unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders`) Actor

Search EU public tenders and contract awards from TED by keyword, country, CPV code and date. Buyer, deadline, estimated value, notice links. Uses the public TED Search API from the EU Publications Office. Independent tool, not affiliated with the EU. No key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders.md
- **Developed by:** [Daren Data Tools](https://apify.com/unforgettable_cornet) (community)
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## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 tender results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## TED EU Tenders API – European Public Procurement & Contract Award Notices

Search **EU public tenders** from **TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)**, the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU, which publishes **European public procurement** notices. Find **open calls for tender** and **contract award notices** across EU/EEA countries by keyword, buyer country, **CPV code** and publication date. Each result includes publication number, title, contracting authority, country, CPV codes, procedure type, **tender deadline**, **estimated value** and links to the notice page, PDF and XML.

### Why this Actor

- **Source**: the public TED Search API v3 from the Publications Office of the European Union. No HTML scraping, no login, no API key.
- **Multilingual**: choose your preferred language for titles and buyer names.
- **Scales**: up to 15,000 notices per run with iterative pagination (default 100).

### Use cases

Bid/tender monitoring for B2G sales teams, procurement market intelligence, competitor award tracking, consulting and grant teams, daily tender alerts via Apify Schedules.

### Input example

```json
{"keywords":["software","cloud"],"countries":["DEU","FRA"],"cpvCodes":["72000000"],"noticeType":"competition","dateFrom":"2026-09-01","maxResults":300}
```

### Output example

```json
{"publicationNumber":"674226-2026","title":"Maintenance of ...","buyerName":"Banque de France","buyerCountry":["FRA"],"cpvCodes":["50413200"],"tenderDeadline":"2026-11-06+01:00","estimatedValue":"300000","estimatedValueCurrency":"EUR","noticeUrl":"https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/674226-2026"}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result: charged per notice returned. Set "Max results" to cap your cost.

### Personal data

TED notices can include names and professional contact details of contact persons. **This tool omits contact-person names, e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers by default and does not output them.** Other fields (e.g., buyer or titles) are reproduced as published and may occasionally contain names of individuals; you are responsible for having a lawful basis under the GDPR for any personal data you process.

### Source & attribution

Source: TED, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu

Source: TED – Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Notices reused under the European Commission's reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU); TED editorial content under CC BY 4.0. Changes made: this tool selects and reformats fields (and may filter by language); it does not alter notice meaning.

### Disclaimer

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Union, the European Commission, the Publications Office, or any government body, which accept no liability for this reuse. Only notices published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU are authentic. Data is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, and may be incomplete, delayed or out of date; verify on ted.europa.eu before relying on it.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Full-text search terms (any match), e.g. software, cleaning services.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO 3-letter codes, e.g. DEU, FRA, POL.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, e.g. 72000000 (IT services).

## `noticeType` (type: `string`):

Open tenders or awarded contracts.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest publication date (default 2026-01-01).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Latest publication date.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language for titles/buyer names when available, e.g. eng, deu, fra.

## `expertQuery` (type: `string`):

Raw TED expert search query.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum notices to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "noticeType": "competition",
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "language": "eng",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `tenders` (type: `string`):

All notices returned by the run.

# 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"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders").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"],
    "maxResults": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders").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"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100
}' |
apify call unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,unforgettable_cornet/ted-eu-tenders"
        }
    }
}
```

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/v0CCGtZGqmroaWhFW/builds/A4SNiG4Sx9iZjQlgH/openapi.json