How to access EU & French public tenders via API (free, no auth required)

Source: Dev.to

The official sources nobody talks about

Both BOAMP (France’s official public procurement bulletin) and TED (Tenders Electronic Daily – the EU’s official source) have free, documented APIs that require zero authentication. No API key, no registration, no rate‑limit headaches.

• BOAMP: powered by Opendatasoft, returns clean JSON
• TED API v3: official EU endpoint covering all 27 member states

Together they represent ~50,000 new notices per year for France alone.

The problem with using them directly

The raw APIs return inconsistent formats, buried budget fields, opaque deadline structures, and no sector labeling. You end up writing hundreds of lines of parsing code before you can do anything useful.

What I built

I built Tender Intelligence API, a unified wrapper around both sources that gives you structured, clean data per tender:

Quick example in Python

import requests

url = "https://tender-intelligence.p.rapidapi.com/search"
headers = {"X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_KEY"}
params = {"q": "informatique"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
tenders = response.json()

for t in tenders["results"]:
    print(f"{t['title']} — {t['budget']} — {t['days_left']} days left")

Available endpoints

• GET /search?q=... – keyword search across BOAMP + TED in parallel
• GET /sectors – list of 15 labeled sectors
• GET /sectors/{id} – all tenders in a sector (IT, Health, Construction…)
• GET /notices/{source}/{id} – full detail of a single notice
• GET /health – upstream source status

Free tier available

A free plan with 100 requests/month is available. No credit card required. Paid plans start at $29/month for unlimited access.

👉 Try Tender Intelligence API on RapidAPI

The GitHub repo is also public if you want to contribute or self‑host.