Public Tenders Feed for TED and Grants.gov Notices

Public tenders feed for EU tenders and contract awards from TED and US federal funding calls from Grants.gov, delivered as one clean JSON record per notice, with an optional new-notices mode for a daily digest.

This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Instead of learning two portals and two data formats, you get the same eighteen fields for every notice. Run it with no input to see the latest notices, or filter by keyword, buyer country, CPV code and notice type.

What data you get

• id: stable notice id, prefixed with the source
• source: ted or grants
• noticeType: planning, tender, award or other (modifications and pre-award notices)
• sourceNoticeType: the source's own type, such as cn-standard, can-standard, synopsis or forecast
• referenceNumber: TED publication number or Grants.gov opportunity number
• title: the notice title, in English when the notice has it, otherwise in the language published
• description: the notice description, or null when the source has none or the text contains an email address or phone number
• language: three-letter language code of the title
• buyerName: the contracting authority or funding agency
• buyerCountry: three-letter ISO country code
• publishedAt: publication date, YYYY-MM-DD
• deadlineAt: earliest submission deadline, YYYY-MM-DD, or null
• categoryCodes: CPV codes (TED) or Assistance Listing numbers (Grants.gov)
• contractType: services, works or supplies (TED), or the funding instrument (Grants.gov)
• value: total value, meaning the awarded amount on award notices and the estimate on all others, or null
• currency: currency of value, or null
• winners: winning firms on TED award notices, only when the name carries a legal form such as GmbH, S.A., Sp. z o.o., Ltd or AB. Coverage is partial: see Limits and FAQ
• url: link to the official notice

Input

Every field is optional. An empty run returns the latest notices from both sources, whatever their date.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
sources	array	no	["ted", "grants"]	Which official sources to read
keywords	array	no	[]	Keep notices that mention any of these words or phrases
noticeTypes	array	no	[]	Keep only planning, tender or award notices. Empty means every type
countries	array	no	[]	Buyer countries as three-letter ISO codes. Grants.gov is skipped unless the list includes USA
cpvCodes	array	no	[]	Eight-digit CPV codes, TED only. A parent code also matches its child codes. Grants.gov is skipped when this is set
onlyNew	boolean	no	false	Return only notices not yet delivered for these same filters
maxItems	integer	no	50	Stop after this many notices, split evenly between the sources in use. Maximum 10,000

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event:

Event	Price
notice-result	$2.00 per 1,000 notices ($0.002 each)
apify-actor-start	$0.00005 per run

maxItems caps each run, so it is also your spending limit. Only saved notices are billed.

Sample output

{
  "id": "ted:768844-2026",
  "source": "ted",
  "noticeType": "award",
  "sourceNoticeType": "can-standard",
  "referenceNumber": "768844-2026",
  "title": "Stöd för personalsäkerhet",
  "description": "System för hantering och omvärldbevakning inom personsäkerhet samt tjänster inom bakgrundskontroller, säkerhetsprövning m.m..",
  "language": "swe",
  "buyerName": "Region Gotland",
  "buyerCountry": "SWE",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-05",
  "deadlineAt": null,
  "categoryCodes": ["79417000", "75241000", "79710000"],
  "contractType": "services",
  "value": 2700000,
  "currency": "SEK",
  "winners": ["SR Intelligence AB"],
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/768844-2026"
}

Daily digest with new-notices mode

Turn on onlyNew and run the Actor on an Apify schedule. The first run returns the latest notices and starts tracking from there. Each later run returns only what has not been delivered for the same filters, oldest first. If a run stops at maxItems, at your spending limit or at its timeout, the next run continues from that point. Set maxItems above your daily volume to keep up: TED alone publishes thousands of notices per issue when no filters are set.

Two limits apply, both on Grants.gov:

• A forecast keeps its id when it opens as a funding call, and its date moves to the opening date. You get the notice a second time, as a tender with the same id, and are billed a second time. So one opportunity can be delivered and billed twice: once as a forecast and once when it opens.
• A notice that first appears more than 30 days behind its own date is missed.

Each combination of sources and filters keeps its own position, so several saved tasks can run side by side. A run that finds nothing new still succeeds and tells you so in the log.

Integrations

Call it from n8n, Make or Zapier, or through the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/VERRR~public-procurement-digest/runs?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "keywords": ["<your keyword>"], "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 500 }'

Use cases

• Bid teams watching EU public tenders in their CPV codes and countries
• Grant writers tracking new US federal funding calls and forecasts by keyword
• Market researchers following public buying by sector and country from TED notices
• Consultants sending clients a weekly public procurement digest
• AI agents and automations that need one predictable tender format

Limits and FAQ

• Which sources are covered? TED and Grants.gov, through their official keyless APIs. SAM.gov and USAspending are not included, so there are no US federal contract awards.
• Does Grants.gov have award notices? No. It lists funding calls (tender) and forecasts (planning), so filtering on award returns TED only.
• How complete is winners? Partial, by design. TED does not mark which winners are private individuals, so a name is kept only when it carries a recognised legal form. Sole traders and many real firms are left out as a result. On 3,000 recent award notices, 33% of winner names were left out and 24.5% of notices with a winner ended with an empty list. It varies by country: the list was empty on 159 of 206 such notices from France and 35 of 44 from Belgium, against 78 of 440 from Germany. Use it as a sample of winners, not a full record, and follow url for the official notice.
• Why is my value null? Many notices do not publish one. TED values are in the notice's own currency and are not converted.
• Why is a title not in English? TED notices are published in the buyer's language. Text is delivered as published and is not translated.
• Does it include contact people? Contact fields are never collected, and a description containing an email address or phone number is left out. A person's name written in free text cannot be detected and may remain.
• How long does a run take? TED returns 250 notices per request. Grants.gov needs one request per notice for the description and funding, at about 2 notices a second, so 1,000 Grants.gov notices take about 8 minutes.
• What if a run is about to time out? It stops early and saves what it has, leaving a minute or a quarter of the time left, whichever is less. Grants.gov notices still waiting for their details are not saved or billed, and the status message says how many.
• What if a source is down? The other source's notices are still saved and billed, and the run's status message names what failed. If nothing could be saved, the run fails.
• Do I need a proxy? No.
• What if a source changes its API? This Actor is monitored weekly and repaired automatically.

Legal note

This Actor collects publicly available data only, through official public APIs. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws and each source's terms.

TED notices: source TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), © European Union, 1998-2026, reused under the European Commission's reuse policy. Grants.gov notices: source Grants.gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This Actor changes field names, date formats and text markup into one common format. The words of titles and descriptions are not changed. It is an independent product and is not affiliated with the European Union, the Publications Office of the European Union or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.