BidNet Direct Closed Bid Opportunities Scraper

Scrapes closed government bid and RFP solicitations from BidNet Direct, covering both keyword/status search pages and state or agency listing pages. For each closed solicitation it extracts the title, issuing organization, location, solicitation type, description, publication date, closing date, and how many days ago it closed, outputting the results as structured JSON.

This actor only covers closed bids. For open solicitations, use the companion open-bids actor. https://apify.com/confidential_gnat/bidnetdirect-open-bid-opportunities-scraper

✨ Features

• Closed bid solicitation extraction — title, bid ID, issuing organization, location, solicitation type, description, publication date, closing date, and days since closing
• Pagination support — automatically follows listing pages until maxItems is reached
• Proxy support — datacenter proxy by default to avoid blocks

🔧 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	✅	https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/solicitations/closed?keywords=water&searchContentGroupId=&solSearchStatus=closedSolicitationsTab&sortBy=&sortDirection=&pageNumberSelect=1	Search/listing URLs or individual solicitation detail URLs from bidnetdirect.com.
maxItems	integer	—	5	Maximum number of solicitations to scrape per start URL.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Apify residential proxy	Proxy settings used for all requests.

Supported URL types:

• Keyword/status search pages, e.g. https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/solicitations/closed?keywords=water&searchContentGroupId=&solSearchStatus=closedSolicitationsTab&sortBy=&sortDirection=&pageNumberSelect=1
• Individual closed-bid solicitation detail pages, e.g. https://www.bidnetdirect.com/new-york/riverbaycorporation/solicitations/15056421-Gilmour-Flexogen-5-8-in-x-25-ft-Garden-Hose-Heavy-Duty-Water-Hose-Fle/0000432533

📦 Output

One dataset view, Overview, gives a compact table of title, bid ID, issuing organization, location, publication date, closing date, status, days since closed, and URL for each solicitation.

Sample output:

{
    "solicitationTitle": "Gilmour Flexogen 5/8 in x 25 ft Garden Hose, Heavy Duty Water Hose, Fle",
    "bidId": "0000432533",
    "referenceNumber": "0000432533",
    "solicitationNumber": "15056421",
    "solicitationType": "RFQ - Request for Quote (Informal)",
    "issuingOrganization": "Riverbay Corporation",
    "location": "United States, New York, Bronx County",
    "description": "Gilmour Flexogen 5/8 in x 25 ft Garden Hose, Heavy Duty Water Hose, Flexible and Kink Resistant Outdoor Hose",
    "publicationDate": "07/31/2026 03:00 PM EDT",
    "closingDate": "08/04/2026 11:00 AM EDT",
    "bidStatus": "closed",
    "daysSinceClosed": 1,
    "scrapedDate": "2026-08-05T17:56:15.485Z",
    "searchPageUrl": "https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/solicitations/closed?keywords=water&searchContentGroupId=&solSearchStatus=closedSolicitationsTab&sortBy=&sortDirection=&pageNumberSelect=1",
    "url": "https://www.bidnetdirect.com/new-york/riverbaycorporation/solicitations/15056421-Gilmour-Flexogen-5-8-in-x-25-ft-Garden-Hose-Heavy-Duty-Water-Hose-Fle/0000432533?origin=0"
}

Any field the underlying page does not expose (e.g. description on listings without one, or solicitationType on a teaser-style page) is returned as null rather than an empty string.

💡 Uses of This Data

• Researching historical award/procurement activity by keyword, agency, or region
• Benchmarking typical bid timelines (publication-to-closing windows) for proposal planning
• Building a searchable archive of past government solicitations
• Identifying recurring buyers and solicitation types for a given product or service category
• Feeding closed-bid history into a competitive intelligence or CRM pipeline

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account — includes $5 monthly credit.
2. Open the actor page and click Try for free.
3. Fill in the Input fields (start URL or search query is required).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to complete.
5. Download results from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

You can also run this actor via the Apify API or integrate it directly into your workflows using Zapier, Make, or n8n.

Other Existing Actors

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📝 Notes

• Proxy recommended for large-scale scraping — BidNet Direct blocks unproxied traffic at scale, so keep proxy enabled for production runs.
• API integration — This actor can be called as an API from any automation platform (Zapier, Make, n8n, custom scripts).

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