PNCP Licitações Alerts: New Brazilian Tenders by UF

Get new Brazilian public procurement notices and licitações by state (UF), modality or keyword, as soon as they're published on PNCP. Suppliers, contractors, bid consultants and market analysts use this actor to track tenders across Brazil's federal, state and municipal public bodies. Turn on monitoring mode and run it on a schedule to get only the notices that are new since your last run, charged per returned notice and free on a quiet day.

How to use

1. In the Apify Console. Open the actor page and click Start — the states field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. Via the API. Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:

   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~br-pncp-new-tender-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"states":["SP"]}'
   

3. On a schedule. Save this actor as an Apify Task with the input you want, then add a Schedule (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

Input

{
  "states": [
    "SP"
  ]
}

One 2-letter Brazilian state code per line (e.g. SP, RJ, MG, RS, PR). Leave empty to search across all Brazilian states. Accepted formats: SP, RJ, MG.

One combined search runs per call. You can filter by Brazilian state code (UF), keyword in the tender object (objetoCompra) or contracting body, procurement modality code, and publication recency. The search run itself is free; you are billed only for notices actually returned.

Output

One row per notice, for example:

query	found	status	searchSummary	truncated	monitorStatus	notices	numeroControlePNCP	title	description	buyerName	buyerCnpj	buyerUnit	state	municipality	modalidade	modalidadeId	disputeMode	documentType	tenderStatus	estimatedValueBrl	publishedAt	proposalOpeningAt	proposalClosingAt	legalFramework	originSystemUrl	noticeUrl	isNew	firstSeenAt	scrapedAt
br-pncp-search	true	OK	UF: SP | modalidades: 6 | last 7d | max 20	true			00955107000193-1-000303/2026	Eventual aquisição de sacos plásticos para coleta de resíduos infectantes		FUNDACAO MUNICIPAL DE SAUDE DE RIO CLARO	00955107000193	Fundação Municipal de Saúde de Rio Claro - SP	SP	Rio Claro	Pregão - Eletrônico	6	Aberto	Edital	Divulgada no PNCP	133935.6	2026-10-26T07:28:04	2026-10-27T08:00:00	2026-11-09T08:00:00	Lei 14.133/2021, Art. 28, I	https://comprasbr.com.br/pregao-eletronico-detalhe/?idlicitacao=49253	https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/00955107000193/2026/303			2026-11-01T11:07:33.415Z

A miss comes back as a row with "found": false and is never charged. Missing values like unannounced values or empty descriptions are null, never 0 or empty strings.

Pricing

• Tender notice returned: $3 per 1,000 notices

Plus a $0.0015 start fee per run. Each event above is billed independently, only when it actually returns data — misses (found:false) are never charged.

Limits

• Official open data: Sourced from the official Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (PNCP - pncp.gov.br) under Lei 14.133/2021.
• Privacy & GDPR/LGPD: Returns public-body and company information only; individual citizen names and private contact details are excluded.
• Recency: The publication API covers recent notices; for historical tenders over 90 days old, specify a wider date window.

Example runs

Paste any of these into the Input tab and press Start. All three return rows with no external API key, no token, and no account of your own beyond an Apify login.

1. São Paulo tenders, Pregão Eletrônico, last 7 days. The default shape.

{
  "states": ["SP"],
  "modalidades": [6],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 20
}

2. IT, software and technology procurement alert across SP, RJ, and MG. Monitoring mode on:

{
  "states": ["SP", "RJ", "MG"],
  "keywords": ["software", "tecnologia"],
  "modalidades": [6],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true
}

3. Healthcare and medicine tenders nationwide with a 3-day window.

{
  "keywords": ["saúde", "medicamentos"],
  "modalidades": [6],
  "sinceDays": 3,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Use it from Clay, n8n, Make, or an AI agent

This actor runs synchronously over plain HTTP — call it directly from a script, a workflow tool, or an AI agent, no Apify Console needed once you have an API token.

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~br-pncp-new-tender-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"states":["SP"]}'

n8n. Add an HTTP Request node: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~br-pncp-new-tender-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body Content Type JSON, JSON Body {"states":["SP"]} (swap in an expression from an earlier node for a real value).

Clay. Add an "HTTP API" column: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~br-pncp-new-tender-alerts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body {"states":["{{search}}"]}, mapping the row's search into the states array.

MCP. In Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client with the Apify MCP server, ask for "PNCP API: New Brazil Tender Alerts" — the agent will find and run this actor.