World Bank Tenders Scraper

Find tenders financed by the World Bank: invitations for bids, requests for expressions of interest and prequalification notices from borrower governments in more than 120 countries. By default you get only notices that are still open, newest first, one clean row each: title, buyer, country and region, sector, goods/works/consulting category, selection method, publication date, the deadline in the buyer's local time, and the link to the official notice.

Built for contractors, consulting firms, suppliers and bid teams who chase development-funded work. Schedule a daily run with your countries, sectors or keywords and "published in the last 2 days", and send the new rows to email, Slack or a spreadsheet.

Quick start

The newest open tenders:

{"maxItems": 20}

Open works and goods tenders in East Africa, with a short description and the links each notice quotes:

{
  "countries": ["KE", "UG", "TZ"],
  "procurementCategories": ["works", "goods"],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

New consulting assignments on solar energy, published this week:

{
  "keywords": "solar",
  "procurementCategories": ["consulting-services"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7
}

Recent contract awards in health projects (awards are only returned when you ask for them):

{
  "status": "all",
  "noticeTypes": ["contract-award"],
  "sectors": ["Health"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
keywords	string	""	Words to find in the notice, in any language. Every word must appear; "double quotes" match a phrase.
countries	array	[]	Project countries as two-letter ISO codes, e.g. KE, NG, IN, BD.
regions	array	[]	World Bank regions, e.g. South Asia. Use this for regional projects that span several countries.
sectors	array	[]	Project sectors, e.g. Health, Water Supply, Renewable Energy Solar (pick from the list).
procurementCategories	array	[]	goods, works, consulting-services, non-consulting-services.
procurementMethods	array	[]	Selection methods, e.g. RFB (request for bids), RFQ (request for quotations), QCBS, CQS, INDV (individual consultants).
noticeTypes	array	open notice types	invitation-for-bids, request-for-expression-of-interest, invitation-for-prequalification, general-procurement-notice, contract-award.
status	string	open	open: only notices whose deadline is still ahead. all: also notices whose deadline has passed. General procurement notices and contract awards have no deadline, so they need all.
publishedSince	string	none	Only notices published on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
publishedWithinDays	integer	none	Only notices published in the last N days, today included (UTC). Use one of the two date fields, not both.
maxItems	integer	50	Most notices to return, newest first. Up to 50,000.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Adds descriptionExcerpt and documentLinks. Runs take longer with this on.

All filters are optional and can be combined. An empty input returns the 50 newest open notices.

What it returns

Every row has tenderId, url (the official notice page), noticeType, status (open, closed or awarded), title, referenceNumber, projectId, projectName, projectUrl, buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerWebsite, buyerContactName, buyerEmail, buyerPhone, buyerAddress, countryCode, countryName, region, procurementCategory, procurementCategoryCode, procurementMethod, procurementMethodCode, sectors, sectorCodes, language, publishedAt, deadline, deadlineDate, deadlineLocalTime, deadlineTimezone, descriptionExcerpt, documentLinks, awardValue, awardCurrency, awardedSuppliers, sourceQuery, source and scrapedAt.

• deadline is ISO 8601 with the local UTC offset, e.g. 2026-11-26T11:00+03:00, so you can sort and compare deadlines across countries. deadlineDate and deadlineLocalTime are the date and clock time exactly as published.
• publishedAt is a date (YYYY-MM-DD): the World Bank publishes the day, not the time.
• sectors and sectorCodes are the World Bank's own sector names and codes for the financing project.
• awardValue, awardCurrency and awardedSuppliers are filled on contract award notices only.
• descriptionExcerpt and documentLinks are filled when includeDetails is on, and are empty (null) otherwise.

Output example

{"tenderId":"OP00473660","url":"https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement-detail/OP00473660","noticeType":"Invitation for Bids","status":"open","title":"Upgrading to Bitumen Standards of Selected Link Roads within Meru Town","referenceNumber":"KE-KENHA-533026-CW-RFB","projectId":"P161305","projectName":"Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project","projectUrl":"https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P161305","buyerName":"Kenya National Highways Authority","buyerCountry":"Kenya","buyerWebsite":"http://www.kenha.co.ke","buyerContactName":null,"buyerEmail":null,"buyerPhone":null,"buyerAddress":null,"countryCode":"KE","countryName":"Kenya","region":"Eastern And Southern Africa","procurementCategory":"works","procurementCategoryCode":"CW","procurementMethod":"Request for Bids","procurementMethodCode":"RFB","sectors":["Rural and Inter-Urban Roads","ICT Infrastructure","Public Administration - Transportation"],"sectorCodes":["TI","CI","TF"],"language":"English","publishedAt":"2026-10-13","deadline":"2026-11-26T11:00+03:00","deadlineDate":"2026-11-26","deadlineLocalTime":"11:00","deadlineTimezone":"Africa/Nairobi","descriptionExcerpt":"Specific Procurement Notice (Two-envelope Bidding Process Without Prequalification) Employer: Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) Project: Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project (HoAGDP). Contract title: Upgrading to Bitumen Standards of Selected Link Roads and Construction of 2 No.","documentLinks":["https://www.kenha.co.ke","https://www.tenders.go.ke"],"awardValue":null,"awardCurrency":null,"awardedSuppliers":null,"sourceQuery":"status=open countries=KE|UG|TZ noticeTypes=invitation-for-bids,request-for-expression-of-interest,invitation-for-prequalification","source":"worldbank.org","scrapedAt":"2026-11-03T17:14:02+00:00"}

Empty fields and why

• Some deadlines have no time: a few notices publish only the closing date, with no clock time. For those, deadline and deadlineLocalTime are empty and deadlineDate holds the date. deadline is also empty when the project spans several time zones and the buyer's zone cannot be told; deadlineDate is still filled. That is about one open notice in nine.
• countryCode is empty for regional projects (for example "Western and Central Africa"); countryName then holds the region and buyerCountry the agency's country.
• sectors is empty when the World Bank lists no sector for the project.
• Estimated contract values are not part of World Bank notices, so there is no estimate field; award notices carry the signed contract value.
• descriptionExcerpt is empty when the source has no notice text.

Limits

• Up to 50,000 notices per run, newest first; one search can reach at most 100,000 notices, so split very broad searches by country, region or date.
• Runs deliver about 100 notices a second; with includeDetails on they are slower, because each notice's full text is read.
• status: open keeps a notice until its deadline has passed in the buyer's time zone.

Published information

Public notice text and agency contacts are returned as published. buyerContactName, buyerEmail, buyerPhone and buyerAddress contain the implementing agency's published contact information when available. Awarded suppliers are returned as published, including firms and the source's own placeholders such as Individual Consultant; individual names are only available when the source supplies them. Descriptions may include published beneficial-owner information.

FAQ

How do I get only new tenders each day? Schedule a daily run with publishedWithinDays: 2 and your filters, and deduplicate on tenderId.

Where do I get the bidding documents? Open url for the official notice; with includeDetails on, documentLinks lists the document and e-procurement pages the notice quotes.

What happens when nothing matches? The run succeeds with an empty dataset and says so in its status message.

Price

You pay per result: each delivered notice 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. See the Pricing tab for current prices.

Support

For questions or issues, contact us from the Actor page.