Brazil Public Tenders Radar (PNCP)

Search and monitor Brazilian public tenders (licitações) published in the PNCP – Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas, the official national procurement portal created by Brazil's procurement law (Lei 14.133/2021). Federal, state and municipal buyers must publish their tenders there.

The official PNCP API has no keyword search, requires one query per modality and paginates in blocks of 50. This Actor does the tedious part for you:

• Keyword search in the tender object, case- and accent-insensitive (manutencao finds MANUTENÇÃO), whole words, singular/plural, constru* prefix search.
• Filters: states (UF), IBGE municipality codes, official modality codes, publication window, estimated value range (BRL), only tenders still open for proposals.
• Monitor mode: give it a monitor_id, schedule it daily, and it returns only tenders that are new since the last run (deduplicated by the PNCP control number).
• Clean JSON in English snake_case, money as decimal strings (never floats), ISO 8601 dates, direct link to the official tender page and (optionally) to every tender document.
• Personal data protection (Brazil's LGPD): CPF numbers of natural persons are removed from the output.

Who is it for

• Companies and consultants that sell to the Brazilian government and need daily tender alerts by theme.
• Developers and data teams building procurement dashboards, lead lists or market studies.
• AI agents that need fresh, structured Brazilian procurement data (see Use with AI agents).

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": ["software", "licença de uso"],
  "states": ["SP", "MG"],
  "modalities": ["6", "4"],
  "only_open_for_proposals": true,
  "last_n_days": 7,
  "min_estimated_value_brl": 50000,
  "max_results": 200
}

Monitor (schedule it once a day in Apify Schedules):

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "monitor_id": "software-sp",
  "keywords": ["software"],
  "states": ["SP"],
  "last_n_days": 3
}

Field	Description
mode	search (default) or monitor
monitor_id	Required in monitor mode; each ID keeps its own memory of delivered tenders
keywords	Words searched in the tender object; any keyword matches; empty = no keyword filter
only_open_for_proposals	Default true: only tenders whose proposal deadline is in the future (fast path). false searches the publication history (one API query per modality, slower)
states	UF codes (SP, RJ...)
municipality_ibge_codes	7-digit IBGE codes; overrides states
modalities	Official PNCP codes: 1 Leilão Eletrônico, 2 Diálogo Competitivo, 3 Concurso, 4 Concorrência Eletrônica, 5 Concorrência Presencial, 6 Pregão Eletrônico, 7 Pregão Presencial, 8 Dispensa, 9 Inexigibilidade, 10 Manifestação de Interesse, 11 Pré-qualificação, 12 Credenciamento, 13 Leilão Presencial, 14 Inaplicabilidade, 15 Chamada Pública, 16-19 international Concorrência/Pregão
last_n_days / published_from / published_to	Publication window (Brasília time). Max 366 days per run
min_estimated_value_brl / max_estimated_value_brl	Estimated total value range; tenders without a public estimate are excluded when set
max_results	Max tenders delivered (and charged) per run
include_file_links	Also list the tender documents with download URLs (1 extra request per tender)
max_pages	Safety limit of API pages (50 records each) per run

Output example

One dataset item per tender (real record, shortened):

{
  "pncp_control_number": "04005179000120-1-000076/2026",
  "title": "Edital 60/2026",
  "object": "REGISTRO DE PREÇOS PARA EVENTUAL AQUISIÇÃO DE MATERIAIS ELÉTRICOS, DUTOS E TUBOS DE CONCRETO ARMADO...",
  "matched_keywords": ["aquisicao"],
  "buyer_cnpj": "04005179000120",
  "buyer_name": "MUNICIPIO DE FEIJO",
  "buyer_sphere": "Municipal",
  "state": "AC",
  "municipality": "Feijó",
  "municipality_ibge_code": "1200302",
  "modality_code": 6,
  "modality_name": "Pregão - Eletrônico",
  "modality_name_en": "Electronic reverse auction (pregão)",
  "estimated_value_brl": "16859395.35",
  "currency": "BRL",
  "published_at": "2026-10-23T20:52:31-03:00",
  "proposals_open_at": "2026-10-27T10:00:00-03:00",
  "proposals_close_at": "2026-11-10T10:00:00-03:00",
  "status": "Divulgada no PNCP",
  "open_for_proposals": true,
  "tender_url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/04005179000120/2026/76",
  "files_api_url": "https://pncp.gov.br/api/pncp/v1/orgaos/04005179000120/compras/2026/76/arquivos",
  "files": [{"title": "10. EDITAL ATUALIZADO retificado.pdf", "document_type": "Edital", "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/pncp-api/v1/orgaos/04005179000120/compras/2026/76/arquivos/1"}],
  "source_url": "https://pncp.gov.br/api/consulta/v1/orgaos/04005179000120/compras/2026/76",
  "source_name": "PNCP - Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (Brazil, Lei 14.133/2021)",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-25T03:10:19Z",
  "data_license": "Brazilian open government data (Lei 14.133/2021 art. 174 §4; Decreto 8.777/2016 art. 4)"
}

Other fields: additional_info, buyer_power, buying_unit_code/name, dispute_mode, instrument_type, purchase_number, process_number, is_price_registration, legal_basis, awarded_value_brl, updated_at, status_code, origin_system_url, electronic_process_url, terms_note.

A run summary is saved as OUTPUT in the run's key-value store (status, stop_reason, delivered, records_scanned, pages_fetched, warnings).

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
tender-result	USD 0.003	per tender delivered to the dataset
monitor-new-tenders	USD 0.02	once per monitor run that found at least one new tender

You are never charged for empty runs, errors, source outages or tenders a monitor already delivered. Examples: 100 tenders = USD 0.30; a daily monitor with 5 new tenders = USD 0.035/day; a monitor run with no news = USD 0. The Actor stops as soon as your maximum charge per run is reached.

Limits and good to know

• The PNCP API allows roughly one request every 1.6-2 seconds; each request returns up to 50 tenders. Keyword filtering happens on this side, so a nationwide history scan of many days can take minutes. Use only_open_for_proposals: true (default), states and modalities to keep runs fast.
• Results come newest first. Monitor mode keeps the IDs it delivered for 180 days (up to 50,000 per monitor_id) in a named key-value store of your account (pncp-tenders-radar-monitor). Undelivered tenders (for example when max_results was reached) are not marked as seen.
• Times are Brasília time (UTC-03:00), as published by the PNCP.
• Plural handling applies to the last word of each keyword (material de limpeza does not match materiais de limpeza; add both forms if needed).
• If the PNCP API is down, the run ends with a clear status message and no charge.

Source, license and terms

• Source: official PNCP public consultation API — https://pncp.gov.br/api/consulta (Swagger: https://pncp.gov.br/api/consulta/swagger-ui/index.html), no login, no captcha.
• License: Brazilian open government data. Lei 14.133/2021, art. 174 §4 (the PNCP adopts the open data format) and Decreto 8.777/2016 (open data may be freely used, including commercially, limited to crediting the source). Attribution: Fonte: PNCP – Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas.
• This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Brazilian government.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Every Apify Actor is available to AI agents through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and others) can call this Actor with a plain JSON input such as {"keywords": ["software"], "states": ["SP"], "max_results": 20} and receive structured tenders with stable English field names, decimal-string money and official links — ready for summarising, ranking or alerting. Monitor mode with a fixed monitor_id lets an agent ask "what is new since yesterday?" without keeping its own memory.

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Em português (resumo)

Radar de licitações do PNCP. Busca e monitora licitações e contratações públicas publicadas no Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (Lei 14.133/2021), usando a API oficial de consulta.

• Busca por palavra-chave no objeto da compra, sem diferenciar acento ou maiúscula (manutencao encontra MANUTENÇÃO), com singular/plural e prefixo (constru*).
• Filtros por UF, código IBGE do município, modalidade oficial, período de publicação, faixa de valor estimado e somente propostas em aberto.
• Modo monitor: escolha um monitor_id, agende a execução diária e receba só os editais novos desde a última execução.
• Valores em string decimal, datas ISO 8601 (horário de Brasília), link oficial do edital e dos arquivos.
• LGPD: CPF de pessoa física é removido da saída.
• Preço: US$ 0,003 por edital entregue; US$ 0,02 por execução de monitor que encontrou novidade. Execução vazia ou com erro não é cobrada.
• Fonte: PNCP, dados abertos (Lei 14.133/2021, art. 174 §4; Decreto 8.777/2016). Ferramenta independente, sem vínculo com o governo.