BidNet Direct Open Bid Opportunities Scraper

Scrapes open government bid and RFP solicitations from BidNet Direct, covering both keyword/status search pages and state or agency listing pages. For each solicitation it extracts the title, publication date, closing date, bid ID, and whether the bid is still open, and outputs the results as structured JSON.

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

✨ Features

• Open bid solicitation extraction — title, bid ID, publication date, closing date, open/closed status, and days remaining until 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/open?keywords=water&publishDate=HOURS_24	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 datacenter proxy (AUTO group)	Proxy settings used for all requests.

Supported URL types:

• Keyword/status search pages, e.g. https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/solicitations/open?keywords=water&publishDate=HOURS_24
• State or agency listing pages, e.g. https://www.bidnetdirect.com/alabama
• Individual open-bid solicitation detail pages, e.g. https://www.bidnetdirect.com/georgia/solicitations/open-bids/Henry-County-Water-Authority-Human-Resource-Office-Addition/0000432799

📦 Output

One dataset view, Overview, gives a compact table of title, bid ID, publication date, closing date, open status, days remaining, and URL for each solicitation.

Sample output:

{
    "solicitationTitle": "Regional Water Metering & Billing Study",
    "bidId": "444118548053",
    "publicationDate": "08/04/2026 03:21 PM EDT",
    "closingDate": "08/24/2026 07:00 PM EDT",
    "bidStatus": "open",
    "remainingDays": 21,
    "scrapedDate": "2026-08-04T19:36:04.499Z",
    "searchPageUrl": "https://www.bidnetdirect.com/public/solicitations/open?keywords=water&publishDate=HOURS_24",
    "url": "https://www.bidnetdirect.com/wyoming/solicitations/open-bids/statewide/2026-Regional-Water-Metering-Billing-Study/444118548053?origin=0&target=view"
}

💡 Uses of This Data

• Monitoring new government contracting opportunities by keyword or sector
• Tracking closing deadlines to prioritize proposal preparation
• Feeding bid opportunities into a CRM or procurement pipeline
• Building regional or agency-specific bid dashboards
• Alerting teams when new solicitations matching their criteria are published

🚀 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.

⚠️ Limitations & Known Issues

• Open bids only — this actor does not scrape closed solicitations; use the closed-bids companion actor for that data.
• Registration-gated fields — some detail pages (member-agency "teaser" pages) hide fields like issuing organization, description, and contact behind a "registered members only" notice that this actor cannot access.

📝 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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