Public Procurement (Útboð)

Icelandic public tender data from three sources: TED API (EU-threshold, real-time), OCDS bulk data (historical), and utbodsvefur.is (domestic, web-only).

Data Sources

Source	Coverage	Access	Tenders
TED API	EEA-threshold (>€215k services)	REST API, no auth	~1,481 ISL
OCDS (OpenTender)	2006–2023, all published	Bulk download (JSONL/CSV)	~3,494
utbodsvefur.is	Current/active domestic	Web UI only (WordPress)	varies
reykjavik.is	2018–2024 result PDFs	Web scraping	Reykjavík only

TED Search API

Base URL: https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search

No authentication required. POST with JSON body, returns paginated results.

Search all Icelandic tenders

curl -s -X POST "https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "organisation-country-buyer=ISL",
    "fields": ["notice-title","publication-date","buyer-city","classification-cpv","tender-value","tender-value-cur","organisation-name-buyer","description-lot","title-proc","deadline-receipt-tender-date-lot"],
    "limit": 20,
    "page": 1
  }'

Search by buyer city

curl -s -X POST "https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "organisation-country-buyer=ISL AND buyer-city=\"Reykjav*\"",
    "fields": ["notice-title","publication-date","organisation-name-buyer","tender-value","classification-cpv"],
    "limit": 50, "page": 1
  }'

Search by CPV code

curl -s -X POST "https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "organisation-country-buyer=ISL AND classification-cpv=90610000",
    "fields": ["notice-title","publication-date","organisation-name-buyer","tender-value"],
    "limit": 50, "page": 1
  }'

Available query fields

Field	Description
organisation-country-buyer	ISO3 country code (ISL)
organisation-name-buyer	Buyer org name (supports wildcards)
buyer-city	City of buyer
classification-cpv	CPV code (8-digit)
notice-title	Title text search
publication-date	Format: YYYYMMDD, supports ranges
estimated-value-lot	Estimated value
tender-value	Award value
tender-value-cur	Currency (EUR/ISK)
description-lot	Lot description text
title-proc / title-glo	Procedure/global title
deadline-receipt-tender-date-lot	Submission deadline
description-glo	Global description

Pagination: page (1-indexed) + limit (max 100). Country code must be ISO3 (ISL, not IS).

OCDS Bulk Data (OpenTender)

Download URL: https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/57/download?name=full.jsonl.gz

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Coverage: Jan 2006 – Nov 2023 (updated ~every 6 months).

Formats

Format	URL param	Size
JSONL (gzipped)	?name=full.jsonl.gz	~1.6MB
CSV	?name=full.csv.gz	~1.9MB
Excel	?name=full.xlsx	~2.7MB
Year-specific	?name=2023.jsonl.gz	varies

OCDS Schema (key fields)

{
  "ocid": "ocds-...",
  "buyer": {"name": "Reykjavíkurborg"},
  "tender": {
    "title": "...",
    "value": {"amount": 50000000, "currency": "ISK"},
    "items": [{"classification": {"id": "90610000", "scheme": "CPV"}}]
  },
  "awards": [{
    "value": {"amount": 48000000, "currency": "ISK"},
    "suppliers": [{"name": "Hreinsitækni ehf", "id": "..."}]
  }],
  "parties": [
    {"name": "...", "roles": ["buyer"], "address": {"locality": "Reykjavík"}}
  ]
}

Of ~3,494 tenders, ~1,759 have award + supplier data. 659 from Reykjavík.

utbodsvefur.is (Web Scraping)

National tender portal. WordPress site, no API.

• Search by: buyer dropdown (79+ orgs), tender type (Framkvæmd/Vörukaup/Þjónusta/Leiguhúsnæði), free text
• Active tenders only — no historical archive
• Use Playwright if scraping needed (follow skatturinn.md pattern)
• For historical data, prefer TED/OCDS instead

Reykjavík Tender Results (reykjavik.is)

Annual result pages with linked PDFs showing winner, bidders, amounts:

Year	URL
2018	https://reykjavik.is/en/nidurstodur-utboda-2018
2019	https://reykjavik.is/en/tender-results-2019
2020	https://reykjavik.is/en/tender-results-2020
2021	https://reykjavik.is/en/tender-results-2021
2022	https://reykjavik.is/en/tender-results-2022
2023	https://reykjavik.is/en/tender-results-2023
2024	https://reykjavik.is/en/economy-tenders-procurement-results-tenders/nidurstodur-utboda-og-verdfyrirspurna-2024

Scraped by scripts/reykjavik_tenders.py → data/processed/reykjavik_winter_tenders.csv. Result PDFs have winner/bidder/amount detail not available in TED or OCDS.

Key Buyers

Major Icelandic public buyers (OCDS counts):

Buyer	OCDS tenders
Ríkiskaup / Fjársýslan	~1,655 combined
Reykjavíkurborg	~522
Vegagerðin	~147
Landsvirkjun	~96
Landsnet	~89
OR (Orkuveita Reykjavíkur)	~54
Isavia	~52
Kópavogsbær	~32

CPV Code Reference

Common CPV codes for municipal services:

CPV	Description
90610000	Street cleaning
90620000	Snow clearing
90630000	Ice clearing
44113600	Bitumen
34350000	Tires
45233141	Road maintenance

CLI Usage

# Download OCDS bulk data
uv run python scripts/tenders.py download-ocds

# Search TED for Reykjavik tenders
uv run python scripts/tenders.py search --buyer "Reykjav" --limit 20

# Search by CPV code (street cleaning)
uv run python scripts/tenders.py search --cpv 90610000

# Export awards with suppliers to CSV
uv run python scripts/tenders.py awards --buyer "Reykjav" -o data/processed/reykjavik_awards.csv

# List top buyers from OCDS data
uv run python scripts/tenders.py buyers

# Scrape reykjavik.is tender results (existing script)
uv run python scripts/reykjavik_tenders.py

Data Caveats

• TED only has above-EEA-threshold tenders (~€215k for services)
• OCDS updated every ~6 months, not real-time
• utbodsvefur.is covers domestic below-threshold tenders but no API
• Supplier names inconsistent between sources (e.g. "Hreinsitækni ehf" vs "Hreinsitækni ehf.")
• Award values sometimes EUR, sometimes ISK — check currency field
• Reykjavík appears under 3+ different buyer names in OCDS

Related Skills

• skatturinn — contractor financials/ownership
• reykjavik — municipal CKAN data
• financials — extract contractor annual reports