Romanian Public Contracts Scraper (e-licitatie.ro / SEAP)

Scrape Romanian public procurement — tenders and awarded contracts — from e-licitatie.ro, the official national platform run by ANAP (Agenția Națională pentru Achiziții Publice), the successor to SEAP. Filter by keyword, CPV code, publication date and contracting authority. Get contract values in RON, deadlines, statuses and winners for awarded contracts.

All data comes from the platform's own public JSON API — no login, no cookies, no browser required.

Why scrape Romanian public procurement?

Romania publishes every public tender and every awarded contract on e-licitatie.ro. That is a massive, structured stream of business intelligence:

• Sales intelligence — find authorities buying exactly what you sell, with deadlines and budget ceilings, weeks before the award.
• Competitive analysis — see who wins contracts in your niche, at what price (winner + awarded value in RON for every published award).
• Market research — track CPV categories over time, estimate market size, watch infrastructure, IT, health, agriculture spending.
• Journalism & research — monitor public money flows, detect award patterns, build datasets for analysis.

The native-language advantage: titles and descriptions are in Romanian, and the CPV classification matches EU-wide coding, so you can join with EU TED data.

How it works

1. Build a filter: free-text keyword (Romanian), CPV code/prefix, publication date range (YYYY-MM-DD), contracting authority (partial name), and mode.
2. The actor queries the public search API (POST /api-pub/NoticeCommon/GetCNoticeListFiltered/ for tenders, POST /api-pub/NoticeCommon/GetCANoticeList/ for awarded contracts) with the same headers the web app sends (Referer + Origin + X-Requested-With — the API rejects hotlink requests without them).
3. With fetchDetails on (default), each result is enriched from the notice view endpoints: full description, authority contact details, CPV name, and — for awarded contracts — the winner and awarded value via C_PUBLIC_CANotice + GetCANoticeContracts.
4. Results are pushed to the default dataset as JSON.

Input

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	Free text in the contract title/object (e.g. infrastructura, drumuri, medicamente). Empty = latest notices.
cpvCode	string	CPV code or prefix (e.g. 45233140-2 or 45233100).
dateFrom / dateTo	string	Publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD.
authority	string	Contracting authority partial name (e.g. Primaria, Consiliul Local).
mode	string	tenders (participation notices, default), awarded (contract awards with winners), or both.
fetchDetails	bool	Enrich each notice with description, authority contact and winners. Default true.
maxItems	int	Max results to return (default 50, max 500).

Example input:

{
  "keyword": "drumuri",
  "cpvCode": "45233140-2",
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "mode": "both",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

One dataset item per notice. Key fields:

Field	Description
contractId	Internal notice/contract ID (cNoticeId / caNoticeId).
noticeNo	Public notice number (e.g. CN1047952, SCNA1135873).
title	Contract title (Romanian).
description	Short description of the object (when fetchDetails).
authority	Contracting authority name (with CUI/fiscal prefix).
authorityCui	Authority fiscal number (CUI).
cpvCode	CPV code + name (e.g. 45233140-2 - Lucrari de drumuri).
acquisitionType	Furnizare / Servicii / Lucrari.
procedureType	Licitatie deschisa, Procedura simplificata, etc.
estimatedValueRon	Estimated value in RON (tenders).
contractValueRon	Awarded value in RON (awarded contracts).
publicationDate	Notice publication timestamp.
deadline	Tender receipt deadline (tenders).
awardDate	Award date (awarded contracts).
status	Procedure/notice state (Publicat, Atribuita, Anulata...).
winner / winnerCui	Winning supplier name + fiscal number (awarded contracts).
sourceUrl	Link to the notice on e-licitatie.ro.
scrapedAt	Extraction timestamp (UTC).

Use cases

• Bid pipeline: keyword + CPV + dateFrom for this month → a fresh list of relevant tenders with deadlines every morning.
• Award monitoring: mode: awarded + your CPV → track winners and prices for competitive intelligence.
• Research: pull 500 notices per run into a dataset for analysis.

Pricing

Pay per event — you only pay for what you extract:

• apify-actor-start — one-time charge per run.
• result — per notice returned (default primary event).

No monthly fee, no hidden costs.

Limitations

• The platform caps a single unauthenticated search at ~3,000 results (searchTooLong); for wider windows, narrow by date range or CPV.
• Titles/descriptions are as published by authorities — Romanian diacritics vary (some notices use ASCII transliteration).
• Awarded-value fields are 0.0 when the authority did not publish a value.
• The API is a live government service; occasional 5xx retries are handled automatically with backoff.
• Hard API failures are loud, not silent: if e-licitatie.ro answers 403 (the anti-hotlink "Referrer cannot be null"), 400, or an empty/invalid response, the run FAILS with a clear error instead of exiting successfully with zero items. A zero-item run therefore means a genuinely empty search, never a swallowed error.