LatAm Public Tenders API — Licitaciones Públicas / Licitações (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay)

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Search and monitor government tenders, public procurement and bids (licitaciones, licitações, convocatorias) across six Latin American countries from official open-data APIs, in one clean, normalized JSON format. Built for bid hunters, B2B sales teams, consultants, journalists and procurement-intelligence tools.

Country	Source	Coverage
🇧🇷 Brazil	PNCP — Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (pregão eletrônico, concorrência, dispensa)	Federal, state, municipal
🇲🇽 Mexico	ComprasMX (formerly CompraNet), via Postor Abierto open API (CC BY 4.0)	Federal
🇨🇴 Colombia	SECOP II (Colombia Compra Eficiente, datos.gov.co)	National
🇨🇱 Chile	Mercado Público / ChileCompra API (free ticket required)	National
🇪🇨 Ecuador	SERCOP — Compras Públicas OCDS open data	National
🇵🇾 Paraguay	DNCP — Contrataciones Públicas OCDS API	National

Why this Actor

• One schema for 6 countries: title, buyer, amount, currency, status, publication date, bid deadline and the official link.
• Keyword search (accent-insensitive, e.g. software, medicamentos, obra, consultoría, limpeza).
• Monitor mode (onlyNew): schedule it daily and get only tenders you have not seen before — perfect for email/Slack alerts, Google Sheets, CRMs or webhooks.
• Open-only filter (bid deadline still in the future), minimum amount, date range.
• Official public data only, no login, no personal data by default.

Use cases

• Daily tender alerts for your sector (IT, health, construction, cleaning, security…).
• Lead generation: find public entities buying what you sell.
• Market and competitor research, public-spending analysis, data journalism.
• Feed procurement data into BI dashboards, LLM agents or RAG pipelines.

Input examples

Daily software tenders in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia (open only):

{ "countries": ["BR", "MX", "CO"], "keywords": ["software", "licencias", "licença"], "daysBack": 1, "openOnly": true, "onlyNew": true }

Big construction tenders in Ecuador and Paraguay:

{ "countries": ["EC", "PY"], "keywords": ["obra", "construcción"], "daysBack": 14, "minAmount": 100000 }

Chile (needs your free Mercado Público ticket from https://api.mercadopublico.cl):

{ "countries": ["CL"], "keywords": ["medicamentos"], "chileTicket": "YOUR-TICKET" }

Main fields: countries (CO, EC, PY, CL, BR, MX), keywords, daysBack / dateFrom, maxItemsPerCountry, minAmount, openOnly, onlyNew, includeSuppliers, includeRaw, chileTicket, maxSecondsPerCountry.

Output (one item per tender)

country, source, sourceLicense, id, title, description, buyerName, buyerId, region, city, procurementMethod, category, status, amount, currency, publishedAt, deadline, url, ocid, processCode (+ suppliers, raw optional). Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

{ "country": "BR", "title": "LOCAÇÃO DE SOFTWARE", "buyerName": "MUNICIPIO DE …", "amount": 589930.58, "currency": "BRL",
  "status": "Divulgada no PNCP", "publishedAt": "2026-10-28T09:50:00", "deadline": "2026-11-13T07:59:00",
  "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/92454800000109/2026/1343" }

Pricing (pay per event)

• $0.003 per tender returned (tender event) — $3 per 1,000 tenders. No charge when nothing is found. Set a max charge per run in the run options.

Data & compliance

Data comes from official open-data APIs (SECOP II / datos.gov.co, SERCOP OCDS CC BY 3.0 EC, DNCP CC BY 4.0, Mercado Público API, PNCP API de Consultas) and Postor Abierto (CC BY 4.0, primary source ComprasMX). Each item carries source and sourceLicense for attribution. Supplier names are only included on request and refer to organizations. Respect each source's terms when you reuse the data.

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Español

API de licitaciones públicas de Latinoamérica: busca y monitorea licitaciones, compras públicas y contratación estatal de Brasil (PNCP), México (ComprasMX, antes CompraNet), Colombia (SECOP II), Chile (Mercado Público / ChileCompra), Ecuador (SERCOP) y Paraguay (DNCP) con un solo formato JSON.

• Búsqueda por palabras clave (sin importar tildes), rango de fechas, monto mínimo y solo procesos abiertos.
• Modo monitor (onlyNew): prográmalo a diario y recibe solo licitaciones nuevas (alertas por correo, Slack, Google Sheets, CRM o webhook).
• Ideal para proveedores del Estado, equipos comerciales B2B, consultores, periodistas y herramientas de inteligencia de compras públicas.
• Para Chile necesitas tu ticket gratuito de la API de Mercado Público (https://api.mercadopublico.cl).

Ejemplo: { "countries": ["MX","CO","EC"], "keywords": ["software","consultoría"], "daysBack": 7, "openOnly": true }

Precio: US$0,003 por licitación devuelta (evento tender), es decir, US$3 por cada 1.000. Si no hay resultados, no se cobra.

Datos y cumplimiento: solo datos abiertos oficiales con su licencia indicada en cada registro (source, sourceLicense). Sin datos personales por defecto.

Português

Licitações públicas do Brasil (PNCP) e de mais 5 países da América Latina em um único JSON: pregão eletrônico, concorrência e dispensa, com filtro por palavra-chave, valor mínimo, datas e apenas licitações abertas. Modo monitor para alertas diários. US$0,003 por licitação.