MONITOR

Sources

Monitor reads official publication boards. It does not scrape bid portals behind a login and it does not invent notices.

TED — Tenders Electronic Daily

Official Search API of the Publications Office of the European Union. Verified live in this slice.

Endpoint
POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search
Docs
https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/latest/index.html
Auth
None for published-notice search
Default query
Last two OJ S dates, PD>=… SORT BY publication-date DESC. No country filter.

Útboðsvefur — Iceland

Official national publicity board (utbodsvefur.is), required by regulation 360/2022 and article 55 of Act 120/2016. It carries above-threshold notices and, critically, national and below-threshold advertisements that TED does not. Island.is describes it as the common advertising venue for public tenders.

This is the only national board Monitor reads. Not Doffin, not Hilma.

  • Discovery: public WordPress RSS GET https://www.utbodsvefur.is/feed/
  • Stable key: WP post id from the guid (?p=9653 → wp:9653)
  • Enrichment: one public HTML GET per new id for buyer, deadline, type, and body. RSS description is empty.
  • VEAT bodies that cite a TED / OJ S number are deduped against ingested TED notices.

TendSign (Mercell) requires a login. Monitor does not request that host. If a notice HTML returns 403 or 429, enrichment stops and the rest of the feed is stored as RSS-only (title, URL, date).

robots.txt / legal constraint

On 2 September 2026, https://www.utbodsvefur.is/robots.txt returned:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

That is a crawler exclusion. The adapter uses the public RSS feed and, for new ids only, the public notice permalink. It sends an identifiable User-Agent, does not walk the archive, does not bypass a challenge, and does not fetch TendSign. ICELAND_INGEST=off turns Iceland off; TED-only is an incomplete desk. The durable fix is an official bulk feed from Fjársýslan.

What we do not read

Doffin (Norway) and Hilma (Finland) are occupied elsewhere. Jorpex covers many boards and TED; it does not cover Útboðsvefur — that is the hole this desk fills. No other national portal is ingested.

Ríkiskaup

Ríkiskaup is a contracting authority / central purchasing body, not the statutory notice board. No public bulk API was found. Notices it publishes appear on Útboðsvefur (and on TED when above the EEA threshold). There is no separate Ríkiskaup adapter.