Etimad Saudi Tenders Scraper

Search Saudi government tenders published on Etimad (tenders.etimad.sa), the national e-procurement platform, and get one clean row per tender: reference number, title, agency, procurement type, status, publication date, the deadlines for questions and bids, the envelope opening date, the price of the tender documents and the tender page link. Turn on details to add the purpose, contract duration, guarantees, expected award and work start dates, the regions and cities of execution, activities, and for awarded tenders the bidders, the winning suppliers and the award value.

Use it for tender monitoring and alerts: schedule a daily run with "published in the last 1 day" and a keyword, agency or region, and send the new rows to email, Slack or a spreadsheet.

Quick Start

The latest tenders, newest first:

{"maxResults": 24}

Open IT tenders published this week in Riyadh, with details:

{
  "keyword": "تقنية",
  "status": "open",
  "regions": ["Riyadh"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 7,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
keyword	string	""	Text searched in the tender name, number and reference (most tenders are in Arabic).
agency	string	""	Agency code (12 digits), exact Arabic name, or a name fragment such as حرس الحدود.
tenderType	string	any	publicTender, directPurchase, limitedTender, reverseAuction, frameworkAgreement and more.
status	string	any	open (accepting bids), closed, offersOpening, offersExamination, awarding or awarded.
regions	array	[]	Region names in English or Arabic, or ids 1-13, e.g. ["Riyadh", "Eastern Province"].
activityId	integer	none	Etimad main activity id, e.g. 9 for communications and IT.
publishedWithinDays	integer	none	Only tenders published in the last N days (Riyadh time, today included).
publishedFrom, publishedTo	string	""	Publication date window, YYYY-MM-DD.
bidDeadlineFrom, bidDeadlineTo	string	""	Bid deadline window, YYYY-MM-DD.
referenceNumber	string	""	One tender by its reference number.
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum tenders returned, newest first. Up to 10,000, or 2,500 with includeDetails on.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Add the detail fields listed below (slower).
startUrls	array	[]	Etimad search URLs (their filters are kept) or tender detail URLs.

All filters are optional and can be combined. An agency fragment that matches a parent agency returns the tenders of all its branches.

What it returns

Every row has tenderKey, referenceNumber, tenderNumber, tenderId, title, agency, agencyCode, branch, tenderType, tenderTypeEnglish, tenderTypeId, status, statusId, isOpenForBids, regions, regionsEnglish, insideKsa, publishedAt, questionsDeadline, bidDeadline, envelopeOpeningAt, bidDeadlineHijri, remainingDays, documentPrice, currency (SAR), activity, activityId, isExternalPortal, url, sourceQuery, source and scrapedAt.

With includeDetails on, rows also carry purpose, contractDuration, insuranceRequired, submissionMethod, initialGuarantee, initialGuaranteeAddress, finalGuaranteePercent, awardNumber, offersExaminationAt, standstillDays, expectedAwardDate, workStartDate, questionsStartDate, maxAnswerDays, openingPlace, classificationField, executionPlace, cities, executionDetails, activities, includesSupplyItems, constructionWorks, maintenanceWorks, and for tenders at the award stage bidders, awardedSuppliers and awardedValue. If one tender's details cannot be read, the row is still delivered with detailsError set.

Dates and times are ISO 8601 with the Riyadh offset (+03:00); dates the site prints without a time are YYYY-MM-DD. Texts are given in Arabic as published; procurement types and regions also have English names.

Output example

{"tenderKey":"tenders.etimad.sa:tender:261039009384","referenceNumber":"261039009384","tenderNumber":"21/2026","tenderId":1115380,"title":"تأمين نظام ورخص لإدارة الأجهزة المحمولة لأغراض تعليمية","agency":"كلية الملك فهد الامنية","branch":"المنافسات العامة","tenderType":"منافسة عامة","tenderTypeEnglish":"Public tender","tenderTypeId":1,"status":"معتمدة","statusId":4,"isOpenForBids":true,"regions":["منطقة الرياض"],"regionsEnglish":["Riyadh"],"publishedAt":"2026-10-24T21:02:29+03:00","questionsDeadline":"2026-11-03T21:02:29+03:00","bidDeadline":"2026-11-08T09:59:00+03:00","envelopeOpeningAt":"2026-11-09T10:00:00+03:00","bidDeadlineHijri":"1448-05-28","remainingDays":14,"documentPrice":800.0,"currency":"SAR","activity":"تقنية المعلومات","activityId":902,"isExternalPortal":false,"url":"https://tenders.etimad.sa/Tender/DetailsForVisitor?STenderId=m4ejyBSAyyuvVuKbeEyGaQ%3D%3D","purpose":"تأمين نظام ورخص لإدارة الأجهزة المحمولة لأغراض تعليمية","contractDuration":"9 أسبوع","expectedAwardDate":"2026-12-08","cities":["الرياض"],"sourceQuery":"keyword=تقنية status=open","source":"tenders.etimad.sa","scrapedAt":"2026-10-25T01:30:00+00:00"}

Limits and caveats

• Etimad answers a limited number of searches per minute, so listing runs deliver about 450 tenders a minute (10,000 take about 25 minutes); detail runs read about four pages per tender and are slower (roughly 12 minutes per 1,000 tenders), so with includeDetails on a run returns at most 2,500 tenders and fits the default 1-hour timeout. For more, split the search by date, region or status.
• Some tenders are run on a partner procurement portal (isExternalPortal: true). They appear in Etimad's search with fewer fields and no public detail page; their url opens an Etimad search for the reference number. When a region, activity or non-open status filter is set they are left out, because those fields cannot be checked for them.
• status on the search rows is often empty; it is always filled when details are on.
• Etimad publishes no estimated contract value. awardedValue is filled for awarded tenders when details are on.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run reads Etimad live.

How do I get only new tenders each day? Schedule a daily run with publishedWithinDays: 1 (or 2, to be safe around midnight) and your filters. Rows are unique per referenceNumber, so you can deduplicate across runs on it.

Can I search in English? Tender titles are written by the agencies, mostly in Arabic, so Arabic keywords match far more tenders.

What happens when nothing matches? The run succeeds with an empty dataset.

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.

Support

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