EU TED Public Tender Summary

Search and summarize EU public procurement notices from TED — Tenders Electronic Daily via the official TED Search API, into a clean Apify dataset.

This Actor calls POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search only (with an official fallback host). It does not scrape HTML, bypass captchas, log in, or access private data.

Features

• Keyword full-text search (FT~) plus filters: buyer country, CPV, notice type, procedure, contract nature
• Publication date range (YYYYMMDD)
• Automatic pagination (TED max 250 / page; default ITERATION scroll mode)
• Flat summary rows: title, buyer, country, deadline, CPV, notice / PDF / XML links
• Multilingual TED fields normalized to a preferred language (English first)
• Run summary stored as key-value record OUTPUT_SUMMARY

Input

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	Full-text keyword (FT~)
query	string	Raw TED expert query (AND-combined with filters)
buyerCountry	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, e.g. DEU, FRA
cpv	string	CPV code digits (hierarchical)
noticeType	string	e.g. cn-standard, can-standard
procedureType	string	e.g. open, restricted
contractNature	string	services / supplies / works
publicationDateFrom / publicationDateTo	string	YYYYMMDD bounds
scope	string	ACTIVE (default) or ALL
limit	integer	Max notices (1–5000, default 50)
paginationMode	string	ITERATION (default) or PAGE_NUMBER
linkLanguage	string	Preferred HTML/PDF language code (ENG, …)

Example input

{
  "keyword": "food",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "publicationDateFrom": "20260901",
  "limit": 50,
  "paginationMode": "ITERATION",
  "linkLanguage": "ENG"
}

Output

Each dataset item is one notice summary, including:

publication_number, ojs_number, notice_title, buyer_name, buyer_country, publication_date, deadline_date, notice_type, procedure_type, contract_nature, cpv_primary, cpv_codes, place_of_performance, estimated_value_lot, notice_url, pdf_url, xml_url, fetched_at, source, source_api.

A summary is stored as key-value record OUTPUT_SUMMARY.

Use cases

• Export opportunity monitoring for suppliers and exporters
• Daily / weekly tender digests by CPV or country
• Compliance and market-research pipelines
• Downstream enrichment for CRM / AI / RAG tools

Compliance & attribution

• Data source: TED (Publications Office of the EU)
• API docs: Search API · Developers’ corner
• Legal notice
• The Search API is documented as openly accessible without authentication for published notices. This Actor only requests public fields returned by that API.
• Not legal advice. Always verify the original notice before bidding. Results may be incomplete or delayed.
• Polite retries on HTTP 429/5xx; small delay between pages.

Pricing (suggested)

Recommended monetization: Pay-per-event (PPE) — rental is sunset for new Actors.

Suggested events:

Event	Suggested FREE-tier price	Notes
apify-actor-start	$0.00005 (platform default)	Covers first seconds of compute
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.0012 – $0.0025 per notice	~$1.20–$2.50 per 1,000 notices

Tender summaries are higher-intent B2B than generic open data; start near $0.0018 / result, offer ~10% off Silver and ~20% off Gold vs FREE, then adjust after real usage.

Changelog

1.0.1

• Wire Apify Output schema (.actor/output_schema.json) so Store publishing can detect run output

1.0.0

• Initial release: TED Search API query, filters, iteration pagination, structured notice summaries