# TED EU Public Procurement Scraper (`parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper`) Actor

Scrape EU public procurement tenders from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). Get contract notices with buyer info, estimated values, deadlines, CPV codes, and procedure types. Filter by country and keyword across 27 EU member states plus EEA countries.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 15 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 🇪🇺 TED EU Public Procurement Scraper

> 🚀 **Pull EU public procurement tenders from TED in minutes.** 525,000+ contract notices across all EU/EEA countries. Filter by country, CPV, or expert query. No API key.

Pull live EU public procurement tenders from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official EU publication for public-sector contracts. The actor walks the TED catalog with your filter combination (country, CPV code, or expert query), paginates through results, and returns one structured record per contract notice ready for government-tender intelligence, B2G sales prospecting, regulatory compliance, or public-spending research.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of TED at run time. Records include the buyer name, country, contract description, contract value (where exposed), submission deadline, CPV codes, notice type, publication date, lot count, and a back-reference URL to the canonical TED notice.

| 👥 Built for | 🎯 Primary use cases |
|---|---|
| B2G sales teams | Track tender opportunities by country and CPV |
| Government-contract consultancies | Build pipelines for public-sector clients |
| Procurement compliance | Monitor public spending for transparency reporting |
| Public-sector vendors | Source bid opportunities across EU |
| Researchers and journalists | Study public spending trends |
| Trade associations | Track sector-specific tender flow |

### 📋 What the TED Scraper does

- 🌍 **Country filter.** Restrict to a specific EU/EEA country (32 supported).
- 🏷️ **CPV code filter.** Filter by Common Procurement Vocabulary code (e.g. `72000000` IT services, `45000000` construction).
- 🔍 **Expert query.** Pass a TED expert-search query for advanced filtering (overrides country/CPV).
- 💰 **Contract values.** Estimated and final contract values where exposed.
- 📅 **Deadlines.** Submission and decision deadlines.
- 🏢 **Buyer details.** Buyer name, country, postal code, NUTS region.

The scraper accepts a country plus CPV code OR a TED expert query. It walks TED's API surface, fetches each notice, and pushes structured records to the dataset.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** TED is the canonical record of EU public procurement worth €2 trillion+ annually but its UI is paginated and lacks bulk export. A live, structured pull beats manual searches for B2G sales, compliance, and public-spending research.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `awardCriterion`, `buyerCountry`, `buyerName`, `contractNature`, `contractTitle`, `cpvCode`, `deadline`, `description`, `estimatedValue`, `frameworkValue`, `highestTenderValue`, `noticeTitle`, `noticeType`, `pdfUrl`, `procedureType`, `publicationDate`, `publicationNumber`, `scrapedAt`, `tedUrl`, `titleLot`, `titleProcedure`. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know**: Free users are limited to 10 notices per run. The scraper uses the official TED public API. You can use TED expert query syntax in the Custom Query field for advanced filtering.

### 🚀 How to use

1. 📝 **Sign up.** [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 **Open the Actor.** Go to the TED EU Procurement Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 **Set filters.** Pick country and CPV code (or paste an expert query), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 **Run it.** Click **Start** and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 **Download.** Grab your results in the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

> ⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: **3-5 minutes.** No coding required.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [**📋 SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/sec-edgar-full-text-search-scraper) - U.S. SEC filings full-text search
- [**🏢 Belgium KBO Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/belgium-kbo-scraper) - Belgian company registry
- [**🇧🇷 Brazil CNPJ Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/brazil-cnpj-scraper) - Brazilian company registry
- [**🇨🇿 ARES Czech Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/ares-czech-scraper) - Czech company registry
- [**🛒 DIBBS RFQ Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/dibbs-rfq-scraper) - U.S. defense procurement RFQs

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for more reference-data scrapers.

> ⚠️ **Disclaimer.** This Actor is an independent tool. TED is the official EU public-procurement data source and the scraped data is public-domain. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate compliance, B2G sales, and research use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

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

How many procurement notices to collect per run.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Filter by EU/EEA country.

## `cpvCode` (type: `string`):

Filter by CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) code. Example: 72000000 for IT services, 45000000 for construction.

## `query` (type: `string`):

TED expert search query. Overrides country/CPV filters. Example: notice-type = cn AND organisation-country-buyer = DEU

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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 = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper").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 = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/ted-eu-procurement-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/WrRZrrwiR7Aygh9Ra/builds/WETny85rgLwB1OPfL/openapi.json