PNCP Brazil Public Tenders Scraper

Find Brazilian government tenders on PNCP (Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas, pncp.gov.br), the national portal where federal, state and municipal buyers publish their procurement notices. By default you get only tenders that are open for bids right now, newest first, one clean row per tender: subject, buyer and CNPJ, state and municipality, procurement method, status, estimated value in BRL, publication date and the proposal deadline with its time zone. Turn on details to add document links (edital, terms of reference, annexes), item category codes and a description excerpt.

Use cases

• Tender alerts: schedule a daily run with "Published or updated since" set to yesterday, your keywords and states, and send new rows to email, Slack or a spreadsheet.
• Sales pipeline: list every open pregão for your product category in the states you serve, with the deadline and estimated value to qualify each one.
• Buyer watch: follow specific ministries, state agencies or city halls by CNPJ.
• Market research: count tenders and estimated spend by method, state or government level.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
keywords	string	""	Words searched in the tender subject, buyer and notice. Every word must match; accents and case do not matter. PNCP also matches related word forms (hospitalares finds hospitalar and hospital), so a row's title may not contain your exact words.
status	string	open	open (deadline still ahead), closed (proposal period ended) or all.
states	array	[]	Buyer states as UF codes, e.g. SP, RJ, DF.
modalities	array	[]	Procurement methods by id, e.g. 6 Pregão - Eletrônico, 4 Concorrência - Eletrônica, 8 Dispensa.
spheres	array	[]	Government level: F federal, E state, M municipal, D Federal District.
buyerCnpjs	array	[]	Buyer CNPJs, with or without punctuation, up to 20.
publishedSince	string	""	Only tenders published or changed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, Brasília time).
includeDetails	boolean	false	Adds documents, item category codes, item count and a description excerpt, and confirms the deadline with the official record. Slower.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum tenders returned, newest first. Up to 10,000 (1,000 with details).

All filters are optional and can be combined. There is no municipality or product-category search filter: PNCP's search does not offer one. Filter on municipality or, with details on, categoryCodes in the output instead.

Example queries

Open tenders, newest first:

{"maxItems": 20}

Open software pregões in São Paulo and Minas Gerais, with documents:

{"keywords": "software", "states": ["SP", "MG"], "modalities": ["6"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": 100}

Daily monitoring of everything a federal institute publishes or changes:

{"buyerCnpjs": ["08.829.974/0001-94"], "status": "all", "publishedSince": "2026-11-02"}

What it returns

Every row has tenderId, noticeNumber, noticeType, title, buyerName, buyerId, buyerUnitName, buyerUnitCode, sphere, country, region, regionName, municipality, municipalityIbgeCode, procurementMethod, procurementMethodId, disputeMode, legalBasis, priceRegistration, status, statusLabel, isOpenForBids, categoryCodes, itemsCount, itemKinds, estimatedValue, currency, budgetConfidential, publishedAt, updatedAt, proposalsOpenAt, deadline, documents, url, submissionUrl, descriptionExcerpt, detailsFetched, detailsError, sourceQuery, source and scrapedAt.

• status is open, closed, awarded, cancelled or suspended; isOpenForBids is true while the deadline is still ahead.
• Dates are ISO 8601 with an offset, so they sort and compare correctly. publishedAt and updatedAt are Brasília time (-03:00). proposalsOpenAt and deadline are in the buyer's local time: -04:00 for Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, -05:00 for Acre, -02:00 for Fernando de Noronha, -03:00 elsewhere.
• estimatedValue is in BRL and only filled when the buyer published it; confidential budgets are marked with budgetConfidential and left empty.
• categoryCodes, itemsCount, itemKinds, documents and descriptionExcerpt are filled when details are on and empty otherwise.
• url is the official notice page; submissionUrl is the buyer's e-procurement page where proposals are sent, when given.

Output example

{"tenderId": "08829974000194-1-000080/2026", "noticeNumber": "10/2026", "noticeType": "Edital", "title": "Aquisição de bens destinados à implantação e/ou ampliação de sistemas de Circuito Fechado de Televisão – CFTV, organizados em 3 (três) grupos, e 3 (três) itens avulsos (racks de parede, nobreaks e monitores) visando atender às demandas das Unidades de Conservação Federais vinculadas à Gerência…", "buyerName": "INSTITUTO CHICO MENDES DE CONSERVACAO DA BIODIVERSIDADE", "buyerId": "08829974000194", "buyerUnitName": "UNID. AVANÇADA DE ADM. E FINAN.FOZ DO IGUAÇU", "buyerUnitCode": "443048", "sphere": "Federal", "country": "BR", "region": "PR", "regionName": "Paraná", "municipality": "Foz do Iguaçu", "municipalityIbgeCode": "4108304", "procurementMethod": "Pregão - Eletrônico", "procurementMethodId": "6", "disputeMode": "Aberto", "legalBasis": "Lei 14.133/2021, Art. 28, I", "priceRegistration": true, "status": "open", "statusLabel": "Divulgada no PNCP", "isOpenForBids": true, "categoryCodes": [{"scheme": "Catálogo do Compras.gov.br", "code": "623909"}, {"scheme": "NCM/NBS", "code": "852580"}, {"scheme": "Catálogo do Compras.gov.br", "code": "635156"}], "itemsCount": 14, "itemKinds": ["goods"], "estimatedValue": 635350.04, "currency": "BRL", "budgetConfidential": false, "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:52:34-03:00", "updatedAt": "2026-11-03T13:52:34-03:00", "proposalsOpenAt": "2026-11-04T08:00:00-03:00", "deadline": "2026-11-16T09:00:00-03:00", "documents": [{"title": "PE 90004_26 (2).zip", "type": "Edital", "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/pncp-api/v1/orgaos/08829974000194/compras/2026/80/arquivos/1", "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:52:35-03:00"}, {"title": "14/2026.pdf", "type": "Termo de Referência", "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/pncp-api/v1/orgaos/08829974000194/compras/2026/80/arquivos/2", "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:53:36-03:00"}], "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/08829974000194/2026/80", "submissionUrl": "https://cnetmobile.estaleiro.serpro.gov.br/comprasnet-web/public/compras/acompanhamento-compra?compra=44304805000102026", "descriptionExcerpt": "Aquisição de bens destinados à implantação e/ou ampliação de sistemas de Circuito Fechado de Televisão – CFTV, organizados em 3 (três) grupos, e 3 (três) itens avulsos (racks de parede, nobreaks e monitores) visando atender às demandas das Unidades de Conservação Federais vinculadas à Gerência Regional 5 Sul (GR-5 Sul) do ICMBio,", "detailsFetched": true, "detailsError": null, "sourceQuery": "status=open states=PR modalities=6", "source": "pncp.gov.br", "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T17:05:00+00:00"}

Limits and caveats

• Up to 10,000 tenders per run (1,000 with details). Narrow the filters to go further.
• Details take about 3 seconds per tender.
• A tender published in the last few minutes may not have its official record yet; its row then keeps the dates shown in the search.
• PNCP publishes proposal times without a time zone; they are read in the buyer's state time zone. The western tip of Amazonas uses -05:00 locally but is read as -04:00.
• Titles and descriptions retain the text published by the buying body, including public contact information.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run reads PNCP live; buyers publish new tenders all day.

How do I get only new tenders each day? Schedule a daily run with publishedSince set to the previous day. Rows are unique per tenderId, so you can deduplicate across runs on it.

What happens when nothing matches? The run succeeds with an empty dataset and says so in its status. An invalid value (an unknown state code, a CNPJ without 14 digits) stops the run with a clear message.

Price

You pay per result: each delivered tender row is one result, plus a small run-start charge. The run-start event is charged per GB of memory; the default 512 MB run is one start event. See the Pricing tab for the current prices.

Support

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