Brazil PNCP Public Tenders Monitor

Monitor Brazil PNCP (Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas) public procurement tenders from the official public Consulta API. Pull structured notices across federal, state and municipal buyers — objeto, buyer CNPJ, UF, modality, estimated values in BRL, proposal deadlines and deep links — with no login, browser or HTML scraping.

Use this Actor when you need clean JSON of Brazilian public procurement notices for bid desks, GovTech pipelines, supplier compliance or market intelligence.

Store: brazil-pncp-tenders-monitor · Sibling: Awarded Contracts

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What it does

1. Calls the official PNCP endpoint contratacoes/publicacao for the dateFrom–dateTo publication window.
2. Optionally filters by UF (state), buyer CNPJ (orgaoCnpj) and keywords in objetoCompra.
3. Writes one normalized Dataset row per notice, including a pncpUrl deep link.

Source base: https://pncp.gov.br/api/consulta — public government open data.

Who it's for

• Bid desks and GovTech / procurement SaaS
• Supplier compliance, KYC and risk enrichment
• LatAm market-intel and public-spend research
• Agents / MCP tools that need Brazil procurement as structured data

Input summary

Field	Required	Description
dateFrom / dateTo	yes	Publication window as YYYYMMDD
modalidadeId	yes	PNCP modality code (default 6 = Pregão Eletrônico)
uf	no	Two-letter state (SP, RJ, …)
orgaoCnpj	no	Buyer CNPJ (14 digits)
keywords	no	Keep notices whose objetoCompra matches ANY term
maxItems	no	Hard Dataset cap (default 100; also caps pay-per-event spend)
pageSize	no	API page size 10–50 (default 50)

Common PNCP modality codes

Id	Name (approx.)
4	Concorrência
6	Pregão Eletrônico
7	Pregão Presencial
8	Dispensa
9	Inexigibilidade

Confirm against current PNCP docs before production schedules.

Output fields

One Dataset row per tender notice. Key fields:

numeroControlePNCP, numeroCompra, anoCompra, sequencialCompra, processo, objetoCompra, modalidadeId, modalidadeNome, modoDisputaNome, situacaoCompraNome, valorTotalEstimado, valorTotalHomologado, currency (BRL), dataPublicacaoPncp, dataAberturaProposta, dataEncerramentoProposta, orgaoCnpj, orgaoRazaoSocial, uf, municipio, amparoLegal, linkSistemaOrigem, pncpUrl, scrapedAt.

Pricing

Pay-per-event is already configured on the Store. You are charged for Actor starts and for result rows pushed to the Dataset. Use maxItems as your spend cap. Exact event prices appear on the Actor’s Store pricing panel.

Quick start (Apify Console)

1. Open brazil-pncp-tenders-monitor → Try for free / Start.
2. Set dateFrom and dateTo (e.g. last 7–10 days as YYYYMMDD).
3. Keep default modalidadeId = 6, or change modality / add uf / keywords.
4. Set maxItems (e.g. 50 for a smoke run).
5. Run → open the default Dataset for JSON/CSV export, or schedule daily.

Example input:

{
  "dateFrom": "20260901",
  "dateTo": "20260910",
  "modalidadeId": 6,
  "uf": "SP",
  "keywords": ["software", "cloud"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Related Actors (Brazil open data)

• Brazil PNCP Awarded Contracts — published contracts / valores finais
• Brazil CEIS/CNEP Sanctions Delta — Portal da Transparência sanctions
• Brazil TCU Acórdãos Keyword Monitor — TCU open-data decisions
• Brazil NCM / TIPI Lookup — Mercosur NCM + Portal Único attributes

Legal / data source

Public government open data via the official PNCP Consulta API. No login, cookies or ToS-walled HTML. Respect rate limits; identify a clear User-Agent; do not hammer the service. Not intended for PII harvesting beyond what the public notices already publish.

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Português (resumo)

Monitora licitações do PNCP (Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas) pela API pública oficial. Filtra por período, UF, CNPJ do órgão e palavras-chave no objeto. Ideal para desks de licitação, compliance e inteligência de gasto público. Modelo pay-per-event na Store; use maxItems para limitar custo.