PhilGEPS Government Tender & Bid Notices Scraper

Get a live feed of open Philippine government tender and bid opportunities straight from PhilGEPS (the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System), with budget, procuring agency, category, closing deadline and contact person — ready to drop into a lead list, CRM, or daily monitoring sheet, instead of checking the government portal by hand every morning.

Why use the PhilGEPS Tender & Bid Notices Scraper?

The Philippines posted over 300,000 bid notices worth roughly PHP 715 billion (~USD 12.7B) in government contracts in 2025 alone — but the official notices.philgeps.gov.ph portal is a legacy government site with no email alerts, no API, and no export beyond its own clunky search UI. Small and mid-size Filipino suppliers, construction firms, IT vendors, and business-development teams currently browse it manually every day looking for open bids in their sector. This actor reads the same public search results PhilGEPS itself publishes and turns them into structured, filterable leads.

Main capabilities:

• Reads live open bid opportunities directly from PhilGEPS' own public search (no login required, no third-party data broker).
• Filters by keyword, classification (Goods / Civil Works / Consulting Services), area of delivery, and minimum approved budget.
• Fetches the full notice detail for every match: procuring entity, procurement mode, approved budget, closing deadline, and the contact person's name, email and phone.
• Runs on Apify, so you get scheduling (a daily morning feed of new tenders), API/webhook access, and dataset export out of the box.

Typical use cases:

• B2B sales prospecting for government contractors — construction, IT, medical-supply and consulting firms that bid on Philippine government work, watching for open tenders in their category before they close.
• Lead-gen and business-development agencies — build and resell curated lists of live Philippine government tender leads.
• Competitive intelligence / market research — track public procurement activity, spending by agency, and category trends over time.
• Bid-monitoring automation — replace a manual daily check of the PhilGEPS portal with a scheduled Apify run and an email/Slack alert on new matches.

What data can the PhilGEPS Tender & Bid Notices Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
title, referenceNumber	string	Notice title and PhilGEPS reference number
procuringEntity	string	The government office/agency running the procurement
category, classification	string	PhilGEPS business category (e.g. "Vehicles") and classification (Goods / Civil Works / Consulting Services)
approvedBudgetForContractPhp	number	Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC), in PHP
publishDate, closingDate	string	When the notice was published and when bidding closes (Philippine time, UTC+8)
contactPerson, contactEmail, contactPhone	string	The BAC (Bids and Awards Committee) contact listed on the notice
detailUrl	string	Link to the live notice on notices.philgeps.gov.ph

See Output below for the full field reference and a complete real example.

How to use the PhilGEPS Tender & Bid Notices Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Run) on this actor's page.
2. Optionally set keyword to search titles, or category / areaOfDelivery / minApprovedBudgetPhp to narrow results.
3. Optionally set publishedFrom / publishedTo (defaults to the last 7 days).
4. Set maxItems to cap how many leads you want back.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Open the Dataset tab and export your leads as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull them programmatically via the API tab.

How much will it cost to use the PhilGEPS Tender & Bid Notices Scraper?

You pay only for notices delivered — $0.005 per result.

Your Apify discount tier	Price per result	1,000 results
Free	$0.0050	$5.00
Bronze	$0.0045	$4.50
Silver	$0.0040	$4.00
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.0035	$3.50

Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit — enough for about 1,000 leads at no cost. A typical daily pull of 50 fresh tenders costs about $0.25.

A run stops automatically once it has returned maxItems results, once it hits your run's maximum charge (Apify's pay-per-result cost cap), or once it walks past the requested publish-date window, whichever comes first.

Input

All fields are optional — running the actor with an empty input ({}) returns open bid opportunities published in the last 7 days.

Field	Type	Default	Description
keyword	string	"" (all)	Free-text search across tender titles
category	string	"" (all)	PhilGEPS classification to keep, e.g. "Goods", "Civil Works", "Consulting Services" (substring match)
areaOfDelivery	string	"" (all)	Region/province filter, e.g. "Cebu" (substring match)
minApprovedBudgetPhp	integer	0	Only notices with an Approved Budget for the Contract at least this many PHP
publishedFrom	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	7 days ago	Start of the publish-date range
publishedTo	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	today	End of the publish-date range (inclusive)
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of tender notices to return

publishedFrom must not be later than publishedTo — the run fails immediately with an error message if it is.

Example input for "open civil works tenders worth at least PHP 5M in the last 2 weeks":

{
  "category": "Civil Works",
  "minApprovedBudgetPhp": 5000000,
  "publishedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-09-15",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. One item is produced per bid notice, with the same keys every time (null when the notice doesn't include that data). This is a real item from a live run of this actor (tests/smoke_input.json, notices published on 2026-09-15):

{
  "referenceNumber": "13058348",
  "title": "Purchase of Chariot at Brgy. 07 Poblacion, Quinapodan, Eastern Samar",
  "procuringEntity": "BARANGAY 07 POBLACION, QUINAPONDAN, EASTERN SAMAR",
  "category": "Vehicles",
  "classification": "Goods",
  "procurementMode": "Public Bidding",
  "approvedBudgetForContractPhp": 196000.0,
  "currency": "PHP",
  "areaOfDelivery": "Eastern Samar",
  "publishDate": "2026-09-15",
  "closingDate": "2026-09-22T09:00:00+08:00",
  "status": "open",
  "awardee": null,
  "awardAmountPhp": null,
  "contactPerson": "NOEL A PADUA",
  "contactEmail": "quinapondanbarangays@gmail.com",
  "contactPhone": "63-966-9686099",
  "detailUrl": "https://notices.philgeps.gov.ph/GEPSNONPILOT/Tender/SplashBidNoticeAbstractUI.aspx?menuIndex=3&refID=13058348&Result=3",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-15T01:07:09.705679+00:00"
}

Field reference

Field	Description
referenceNumber	PhilGEPS reference number for this notice
title	Notice title
procuringEntity	Government office/agency running the procurement
category	PhilGEPS business category (e.g. "Vehicles", "Electrical Supplies")
classification	Goods / Civil Works / Consulting Services
procurementMode	e.g. "Public Bidding"
approvedBudgetForContractPhp, currency	Approved Budget for the Contract and its currency (always PHP)
areaOfDelivery	Region/province where goods or works are to be delivered
publishDate, closingDate	Publish date and bid-closing date/time (Philippine Standard Time, UTC+8)
status	open (active bidding) or the PhilGEPS status lower-cased (e.g. closed)
awardee, awardAmountPhp	Reserved for award data; always null — see Limits below
contactPerson, contactEmail, contactPhone	The BAC contact listed on the notice
detailUrl	Link to the live notice on notices.philgeps.gov.ph
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp when this actor read the notice

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal? Yes. PhilGEPS is the Philippine government's official public procurement portal — bid notices are published specifically so suppliers can find and respond to them, with no login required to view them. This actor only reads that public data through the same public pages a browser would.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as PhilGEPS itself — notices appear in the actor's results as soon as they're published on the portal. Run this actor daily with a rolling publishedFrom/publishedTo to build an ongoing lead feed.

Why are awardee and awardAmountPhp always null? This actor reads PhilGEPS' "Open Opportunities" listing, which covers active bids, not the separate award-notice archive. These fields are reserved in the output shape for a future version that also covers award notices.

Why did my run return fewer than maxItems results? Your filters (keyword, category, area, minimum budget, or a narrow date range) may simply match fewer notices than requested. Widen the date range or relax a filter to get more.

Why did my run fail immediately? publishedFrom cannot be later than publishedTo — the actor rejects that combination up front with an error message instead of running.

Legal & compliance note

All data comes from notices.philgeps.gov.ph, the Philippine government's official procurement portal, which the Government Procurement Policy Board explicitly publishes for public and bidder access. This actor does not access any non-public or login-walled data. Contact details returned by this actor (contactPerson, contactEmail, contactPhone) are the agency's official Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) business contact, published by the government specifically so bidders can reach them — not private individual data.

Limits & notes

• Covers open bid opportunities only (PhilGEPS' "Open Opportunities" search); the separate recent-award archive is not included, so awardee/awardAmountPhp are always null.
• category and areaOfDelivery are matched as case-insensitive substrings against the notice's classification and area-of-delivery fields, since PhilGEPS' public search does not expose a structured filter for either.
• PhilGEPS is a legacy ASP.NET site; a markup change on their end could occasionally require a selector update.

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this actor's page. For programmatic access, see the API tab for ready-made code snippets in your language of choice.