# EU Contract Awards Tracker — Who Won Public Tenders (TED) (`aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker`) Actor

Track contract AWARD notices from the official TED API: who won EU public contracts, for how much. Competitive intelligence with relevance scoring, dedup and new-only alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aspiring\_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Joachim Pouchain](https://apify.com/aspiring_barricade) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

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

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# README

## EU Contract Awards Tracker — Who Won Public Tenders (TED)

Track **EU contract award notices** from the official **TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)** API and find out **who won public contracts**, for how much, and from which buyer. This EU contract awards tracker is built for **competitive intelligence**: instead of open calls, it surfaces the *results* of public procurement — winners, values and buyers — with a built-in **relevance score**, automatic **deduplication** and a **new-only alert mode**.

Unlike a raw dump, every award is **scored 0–100** against your keywords and **de-duplicated** across notice versions, so the most relevant wins surface first — and you can watch a specific competitor with the `winner_name` filter.

### Why this actor

- **Official source, no scraping tricks.** Data comes from the public TED v3 Search API (contract award notices) — no residential proxies, no anti-bot games.
- **Winner-first output.** `award_winner`, `value_amount` and `buyer_name` are front and centre, so you instantly see who won what.
- **Track a competitor.** Set `winner_name` to follow every contract a given supplier wins across the EU.
- **Relevance scoring (0–100).** Keywords weighted across title, CPV and description — sort or filter by `relevance_score`.
- **Deduplication + new-only alerts.** Collapse re-published notices, and on scheduled runs return only awards you haven't seen before.
- **Stable flat schema.** Identical field names across our TED, BOAMP and Awards actors.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `keywords` | array | Search terms (full text over title + description), OR-combined. **Required.** |
| `winner_name` | string | Track contracts won by a specific company (fuzzy match). |
| `country` | array | Buyer country, ISO alpha-2 or alpha-3 (e.g. `FR`, `DE`). Empty = all EU/EEA. |
| `cpv` | array | CPV codes (e.g. `72000000`). |
| `date_from` / `date_to` | string | `YYYY-MM-DD`. Empty `date_from` = last 30 days. |
| `notice_type` | array | Advanced: award notice-type codes. Default: `can-standard`, `can-social`, `can-desg`. |
| `min_relevance_score` | integer | Drop results below this 0–100 score. |
| `alert_new_only` | boolean | Return only awards new since the last run. |
| `alert_key` | string | Namespace so different saved searches keep separate history. |
| `max_items` | integer | Maximum awards to return. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["software", "consulting"],
  "winner_name": "Atos",
  "country": ["FR"],
  "date_from": "2026-01-01",
  "alert_new_only": false,
  "max_items": 100
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item is a flat, stable record with the **winner highlighted**:

```json
{
  "source": "TED",
  "notice_id": "441921-2026",
  "title": "Framework agreement — IT software and services",
  "buyer_name": "Riigi Tugiteenuste Keskus",
  "buyer_country": "EST",
  "cpv_codes": ["72000000"],
  "description": "Award of a framework agreement for software licences.",
  "value_amount": 6000000,
  "value_currency": "EUR",
  "publication_date": "2026-06-26",
  "deadline_date": null,
  "notice_type": "can-standard",
  "award_winner": "AS Atea",
  "source_url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/441921-2026",
  "relevance_score": 80
}
```

#### Output fields

- `source` — always `TED`.
- `notice_id` — TED publication number (stable id).
- `award_winner` — the winning supplier(s) (multiple winners joined by `;`).
- `value_amount`, `value_currency` — awarded contract value when published.
- `buyer_name`, `buyer_country` — contracting authority and ISO country.
- `title`, `description` — best available language (English preferred).
- `cpv_codes` — array of CPV classification codes.
- `publication_date` — ISO `YYYY-MM-DD`.
- `notice_type` — TED award notice type (`can-*`).
- `source_url` — direct link to the notice on ted.europa.eu.
- `relevance_score` — keyword relevance, 0–100.

### Use cases

#### Competitive intelligence

Follow a competitor with `winner_name` and see every public contract they win across the EU — values, buyers, sectors.

#### Win/loss & market sizing

Aggregate awards by CPV, country and buyer to size addressable markets and benchmark typical contract values.

#### Partner & supplier discovery

Identify active winners in a sector as potential partners, subcontractors or acquisition targets.

#### Monitoring & alerts

Schedule with `alert_new_only: true` to get only fresh awards — ideal for tracking a rival's wins without noise.

#### RAG / LLM pipelines

The clean flat schema feeds award-intelligence agents and retrieval-augmented summaries.

### Pricing

This actor uses **pay-per-result** pricing: **$0.005 per award returned** (per dataset item), plus Apify platform usage. A 100-result run costs about **$0.50** in result fees. `max_items` caps your spend and `alert_new_only` keeps scheduled monitoring cheap.

### Data source & licensing

Data is retrieved from the official **TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)** API of the Publications Office of the European Union (contract award notices). TED data is re-usable for commercial and non-commercial purposes under **Commission Decision 2011/833/EU**, provided the source is acknowledged. No warranty is given about the completeness or accuracy of the underlying notices.

### Notes & limits

- Defaults to the last 30 days when no `date_from` is given, so the default run always returns fresh awards.
- Not every award notice publishes a structured value or winner; those fields are then `null`. When `winner_name` is set, only notices with an identifiable winner are returned.
- For open tenders (not yet awarded) see our **TED EU Public Tenders** actor; for French national notices see our **BOAMP France Marchés Publics** actor.

### Use as an MCP tool (AI agents)

This Actor is available as an **MCP tool** for AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) through Apify’s hosted MCP server. Point your MCP client at:

```
https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker
```

The Actor’s input schema becomes the tool’s parameters automatically. An Apify API token is required.

### Use in n8n

Run this Actor inside your [n8n](https://n8n.io) workflows using the official **Apify** node (search “Apify” in the n8n nodes panel) and select the Actor `aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker`. A dedicated community node (`n8n-nodes-eu-contract-awards`) is also being published to npm for one-click installation via **n8n → Settings → Community Nodes**.

# Actor input Schema

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

Search terms matched against the award notice title/description (full text). OR-combined.

## `winner_name` (type: `string`):

Optional. Track contracts won by a specific company (fuzzy match on the winner field).

## `country` (type: `array`):

Optional buyer country, ISO 3166 alpha-2 or alpha-3 (e.g. FR, DE or FRA, DEU). Empty = all EU/EEA.

## `cpv` (type: `array`):

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

## `date_from` (type: `string`):

Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = last 30 days.

## `date_to` (type: `string`):

Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `notice_type` (type: `array`):

Optional TED award notice-type codes. Default: can-standard, can-social, can-desg.

## `min_relevance_score` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Drop results scoring below this keyword-relevance threshold.

## `alert_new_only` (type: `boolean`):

Return only award notices not seen in previous runs. Great for monitoring a competitor's wins.

## `alert_key` (type: `string`):

Namespace for new-only history so different saved searches keep separate state.

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of award notices to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "country": [],
  "cpv": [],
  "notice_type": [],
  "min_relevance_score": 0,
  "alert_new_only": false,
  "alert_key": "default",
  "max_items": 50
}
```

# 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"
    ],
    "max_items": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker").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"],
    "max_items": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "max_items": 50
}' |
apify call aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aspiring_barricade/eu-contract-awards-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gyOC1AXqd1oSNjieo/builds/Qt9QbuB2cTTUn9tL9/openapi.json