# UAE Federal Tenders Scraper (MoF platform) (`automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper`) Actor

UAE federal government tenders from the Ministry of Finance procurement board: RFQ number, title, buying entity, published description, open and closing dates and the official tender link. Filter by keyword, entity or date window for bid teams.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Philip Kirkbride](https://apify.com/automatic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 tenders

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## UAE Federal Tenders Scraper (MoF platform)

UAE federal government tenders from the procurement board published by the Ministry of Finance (mof.gov.ae), the central entry point for federal entities' open tenders. Get one clean row per tender: RFQ number, title, buying entity, published description, open date, closing date and the official federal procurement link.

Use it for tender monitoring and alerts: schedule a daily run, filter by entity or keyword, and send the new federal opportunities to email, Slack or a spreadsheet.

### Use cases

- Watch new UAE federal tenders by keyword, entity or closing window.
- Build a daily feed of federal opportunities before the closing date closes.
- Follow one entity's tender pipeline, for example a ministry or a federal authority.
- Feed a bid team's pipeline with RFQ numbers, deadlines and the official link.
- Check what the federal government is buying in a technology, facilities or services category.

### What it returns

Every row has `source`, `country`, `tenderId`, `tenderNumber`, `title`, `titleEnglish`, `description`, `buyer`, `entityCode`, `category`, `procurementMethod`, `status`, `publishedAt`, `deadlineAt`, `estimatedValue`, `currency`, `documents`, `url`, `changeType`, `changedFields`, `detailIssue`, `sourceQuery` and `scrapedAt`.

- `title` is exactly as the buying entity published it, in English, Arabic, or both.
- `tenderNumber` and `tenderId` are the RFQ number, for example `12947`.
- `buyer` is the federal entity name; `entityCode` is the board's internal code, for example `121/16896`.
- `publishedAt` (open date) and `deadlineAt` (closing) are ISO 8601 with the UAE offset (`+04:00`).
- `status` is `open` while the closing date is ahead, `closed` after it, and `unknown` when no closing date is printed.
- `description` is the longer description the board publishes for some tenders; it is null when the board publishes none.
- No estimated or contract value and no currency are published by this board, so `estimatedValue` and `currency` stay null; so do `category`, `procurementMethod` and `documents`, which the board does not print.
- `url` is the official federal procurement page for the tender.
- Rows are deduplicated on the RFQ number.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---:|---|
| `keyword` | string | `""` | Text in the RFQ number, title, description, entity name and entity code. |
| `buyer` | string | `""` | Only tenders from entities whose name contains this text. |
| `category` | string | `""` | Only tenders whose title or description contains this text. |
| `status` | string | `open` | `open` for tenders still accepting offers, `all` for the whole current board list. |
| `publishedFrom`, `publishedTo` | string | `""` | Open date window, `YYYY-MM-DD`. |
| `closingFrom`, `closingTo` | string | `""` | Closing date window, `YYYY-MM-DD`. |
| `maxResults` | integer | `20` | Maximum tenders returned. |
| `maxScanPages` | integer | `10` | Board pages to scan (9 tenders each) before the filters are applied. |
| `includeDetails` | boolean | `true` | Keep the longer published description when there is one. |
| `onlyNewSinceLastRun` | boolean | `false` | Return only tenders that are new or changed since the previous run. |
| `stateKey` | string | `""` | Optional name for the saved feed; derived from the filters when empty. |

All filters are optional and can be combined. An empty input returns the current open federal tenders.

### Example queries

Open federal tenders in the Ministry of Justice:

```json
{"buyer": "Ministry of Justice", "maxResults": 30}
```

Anything about security, closing this month:

```json
{"keyword": "security", "closingFrom": "2026-11-10", "closingTo": "2026-11-30"}
```

Tenders published in the last week, without the description:

```json
{"publishedFrom": "2026-11-03", "maxResults": 50, "includeDetails": false}
```

A daily alert feed for one entity:

```json
{"buyer": "Federal Tax Authority", "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "stateKey": "fta-daily"}
```

### Use it as a daily feed

Turn on `onlyNewSinceLastRun` and schedule the Actor once a day. The first run returns every matching tender; later runs return only tenders that are new, or whose closing date, status, title or documents changed, with `changeType` set to `new` or `changed` and `changedFields` listing what moved. Tenders that have not changed are not delivered and not charged. Each saved search keeps its own history, so different keywords stay separate; `stateKey` names the history explicitly.

### Output example

```json
{"source":"mof.gov.ae","country":"United Arab Emirates","tenderId":"12947","tenderNumber":"12947","title":"Cisco Email Gateway Renewal","titleEnglish":null,"description":null,"buyer":"Ministry of Justice","entityCode":"121/16896","category":null,"procurementMethod":null,"status":"open","publishedAt":"2026-11-02T11:14:00+04:00","deadlineAt":"2026-11-23T15:30:00+04:00","estimatedValue":null,"currency":null,"documents":null,"url":"https://procurement.gov.ae/page.aspx/en/bpm/process_manage_extranet/12947","changeType":null,"changedFields":null,"detailIssue":null,"sourceQuery":"status open","scrapedAt":"2026-11-10T06:58:07+00:00"}
```

### Limits and caveats

- The board holds 9 tenders per page and prints no usable filters for automated links, so each run scans `maxScanPages` pages and applies your filters locally. Ten pages cover the whole current board.
- The board lists current federal tenders only. Archived or awarded federal tenders are not on it.
- The board prints no category, procurement method, estimated value, currency or document list, so those fields stay null; `url` opens the official tender page where the documents sit.
- If the board cannot be read, the run stops with a plain status message; rows already collected stay in the dataset.
- If nothing matches, the run succeeds with an empty dataset.

### FAQ

**How fresh is the data?** Every run reads the Ministry of Finance board live.

**How do I get only new tenders each day?** Turn on `onlyNewSinceLastRun` and schedule a daily run. Tenders you have already received are not sent again.

**Who buys through this board?** Federal ministries and authorities, plus a federal spending line for tenders run centrally for other federal bodies.

**Do I get the tender documents?** `url` opens the official federal procurement page, where the documents are published.

### 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. The start is charged even if the run saves no results. Platform usage is included in the price.

### Custom sources and support

Need another Gulf or Saudi tender portal, a custom field, or a bulk or daily feed? Email automat42@outlook.com. For questions or issues, you can also contact us from the Actor page.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Text searched in the RFQ number, title, description, entity name and entity code, e.g. 'security' or 'Maintenance'.

## `buyer` (type: `string`):

Only tenders from federal entities whose name contains this text, e.g. 'Ministry of Justice' or 'Federal Tax Authority'.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Only tenders whose title or description contains this text. The board prints no category column, so this matches the published text.

## `status` (type: `string`):

'open' keeps tenders whose closing date has not passed; 'all' keeps the whole current board list.

## `publishedFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest open date, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).

## `publishedTo` (type: `string`):

Latest open date, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).

## `closingFrom` (type: `string`):

Only tenders whose closing date falls on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

## `closingTo` (type: `string`):

Only tenders whose closing date falls on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many tenders (deduplicated on the RFQ number).

## `maxScanPages` (type: `integer`):

The board holds 9 tenders per page and the filters are applied locally, so each run scans pages. Ten pages cover the current board.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Keep the longer description the board publishes for some tenders. Off returns the table fields only.

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

Keep a ledger per saved search and return only tenders that are new, or whose closing date, status, title or documents changed since the previous run.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the ledger record. Leave empty to derive one from the filters, so each different search keeps its own history.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "",
  "buyer": "",
  "category": "",
  "status": "open",
  "publishedFrom": "",
  "publishedTo": "",
  "closingFrom": "",
  "closingTo": "",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxScanPages": 10,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "stateKey": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keyword": "",
    "buyer": "",
    "category": "",
    "status": "open",
    "publishedFrom": "",
    "publishedTo": "",
    "closingFrom": "",
    "closingTo": "",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "maxScanPages": 10,
    "includeDetails": true,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
    "stateKey": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keyword": "",
    "buyer": "",
    "category": "",
    "status": "open",
    "publishedFrom": "",
    "publishedTo": "",
    "closingFrom": "",
    "closingTo": "",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "maxScanPages": 10,
    "includeDetails": True,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": False,
    "stateKey": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": "",
  "buyer": "",
  "category": "",
  "status": "open",
  "publishedFrom": "",
  "publishedTo": "",
  "closingFrom": "",
  "closingTo": "",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxScanPages": 10,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "stateKey": ""
}' |
apify call automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automatic/uae-mof-dpp-tenders-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/1nyhJHeVdmbv3U6lM/builds/borWYLg9xkdaEnW1b/openapi.json