# EU TED Tenders Search - Public Procurement & Contract Awards (`zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search`) Actor

Search EU public tenders, contract award notices and prior information notices on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) via the official TED API v3. Filter by keyword, country, CPV and date. Buyer, deadline, value, winners as clean JSON. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search.md
- **Developed by:** [leo zhu](https://apify.com/zhucl1006) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 ted notices

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

## EU TED Tenders Search - Public Procurement Notices & Contract Awards

Search **every EU public tender published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)** - the official EU procurement journal with ~700,000 notices a year from all 27 EU member states plus EEA countries - through the **official TED Search API v3**. Filter by keyword, buyer country, CPV code, notice type and publication date and get clean JSON rows: title, buyer, deadline, estimated value, awarded value, winners, CPV codes and direct links to the notice and PDF. No API key, no login, no HTML scraping - 50 notices in about 1-2 seconds.

### Who uses it

- **Bid / tender teams**: a daily feed of new open tenders in your sector and countries - stop checking TED by hand.
- **B2B sales & business development**: contract award notices tell you **who just won what, for how much**, and which public bodies buy your category.
- **Procurement consultants & bid-writing agencies**: monitor many clients' CPV codes at once.
- **Market & competitor intelligence**: track a competitor's EU public-sector wins, build spend datasets.
- **AI / automation**: feed tenders into an LLM qualifier, Slack alert, CRM, n8n or Make via the Apify API.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Full-text keywords (any EU language). Any keyword matches. |
| `noticeType` | `competition` (open tenders), `awards` (results & winners), `planning` (prior information) or `all`. |
| `countries` | Buyer countries as ISO 3-letter codes, e.g. `DEU`, `FRA`, `IRL`. |
| `cpvCodes` | CPV codes, e.g. `72000000` IT services, `48000000` software, `45000000` construction, `79000000` business services. Parent codes include sub-codes. |
| `publishedWithinDays` | Only notices from the last N days (default 7; use 1 for a daily schedule). |
| `maxItems` | Maximum notices (default 100). |
| `language` | Preferred language for titles/descriptions (default English, falls back to the original). |
| `expertQuery` | Optional raw TED expert query - overrides the filters. |

```json
{ "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "SIEM"], "noticeType": "competition", "countries": ["DEU", "AUT", "NLD"], "publishedWithinDays": 1, "maxItems": 500 }
```

### Output (one row per notice)

```json
{
  "publicationNumber": "736355-2026", "publicationDate": "2026-10-23", "formType": "result", "noticeType": "can-standard",
  "title": "Germany – Research and development services and related consultancy services – IT-Research- und Beratungsleistungen",
  "buyerName": "Land Saarland, vertr. d. d. IT-Dienstleistungszentrum (IT-DLZ)", "buyerCountry": "DEU", "buyerCity": "Saarbrücken",
  "buyerEmail": "IT-Beschaffung@it-dlz.saarland.de", "buyerWebsite": "https://www.saarland.de/itdlz/DE/home",
  "contractNature": "services", "procedureType": "neg-wo-call", "cpvCodes": ["73000000", "72220000"],
  "tenderDeadline": null, "estimatedValue": null, "awardedValue": 0.01, "currency": "EUR",
  "winners": ["Gartner Deutschland GmbH"], "winnerCountries": ["DEU"],
  "noticeUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/736355-2026", "pdfUrl": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/736355-2026/pdf",
  "description": "..."
}
```

Values are exactly as published by the buyer (some buyers publish placeholder values such as 0.01). A run summary (query used, total matching notices) is saved as `RUN_SUMMARY` in the key-value store.

### Pricing (pay per event)

- **$0.002 per notice saved** (`ted-notice`) - 500 notices = $1.
- Tiny start fee per run (`apify-actor-start`). Errors are not charged. Set "Maximum cost per run" to cap spend - the run stops gracefully.

### Notes

- Data: TED / Publications Office of the European Union, reused under the EU open-data reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). This Actor is not affiliated with the EU.
- Buyer contact details are the official contact points published in the notices.
- For UK, Canada, Singapore and US federal procurement see our other procurement Actors (UK Contracts Finder, CanadaBuys, GeBIZ, USAspending).

# Actor input Schema

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

Full-text keywords (any language). Notices matching ANY keyword are returned.

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

Open tenders for bidding, award results (who won, for how much) or planned procurements.

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

e.g. DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP, POL, NLD, IRL. Empty = all countries.

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

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, e.g. 72000000 (IT services), 48000000 (software), 45000000 (construction). Parent codes include their sub-codes.

## `publishedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only notices published in the last N days. 0 = no date filter. Use 1 for a daily monitor.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many notices.

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

Titles and texts in this language when available (otherwise the original language).

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the lot description text (can be long).

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

Optional raw TED expert-search query, e.g. buyer-country=DEU AND classification-cpv IN (72000000) AND publication-date>=20260101. Overrides the filters above.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "noticeType": "competition",
  "countries": [],
  "cpvCodes": [],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "language": "eng",
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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"
    ],
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search").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"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 7,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search").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"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zhucl1006/eu-ted-tenders-search"
        }
    }
}
```

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/GGUfmKmmwHjcEH0m7/builds/bjciWU4MiVe1RApCI/openapi.json