# LatAm Public Tenders - Licitaciones Públicas (`frankely84/latam-public-tenders`) Actor

Government tenders (licitaciones, licitações) from Brazil PNCP, Mexico ComprasMX, Colombia SECOP II, Chile Mercado Público, Ecuador SERCOP and Paraguay DNCP. Keyword, amount and open-only filters, daily monitor mode, normalized JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/frankely84/latam-public-tenders.md
- **Developed by:** [Frankelys Hernandez](https://apify.com/frankely84) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 tender results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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

**English** · [Español](#español) · [Português](#português)

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):

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

Big construction tenders in Ecuador and Paraguay:

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

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

```json
{ "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.

```json
{ "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.

***

### 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.**

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

CO = Colombia (SECOP II), EC = Ecuador (SERCOP), PY = Paraguay (DNCP), CL = Chile (Mercado Público / ChileCompra, needs chileTicket), BR = Brazil (PNCP), MX = Mexico (ComprasMX, ex-CompraNet, via Postor Abierto).

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Match in title/description (accent-insensitive). Empty = all tenders. Example: software, medicamentos, construcción.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Only tenders published in the last N days (ignored if dateFrom is set).

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional fixed start date.

## `maxItemsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of tenders returned (and charged) per country.

## `minAmount` (type: `integer`):

Drop tenders with an estimated value below this (COP for CO, USD for EC, PYG for PY, CLP for CL).

## `openOnly` (type: `boolean`):

CO/PY: keep only processes still open for bids. EC: not filterable at source.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers tender IDs between runs (named key-value store) so scheduled runs return — and charge for — only new tenders.

## `includeSuppliers` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default. Some suppliers may be individuals; enable only if you have a lawful basis to process that data.

## `includeRaw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the original source record to each item (bigger output).

## `maxSecondsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap so one slow government API cannot stall the run.

## `chileTicket` (type: `string`):

Your own free API ticket from https://api.mercadopublico.cl (required for CL).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "BR",
    "MX",
    "CO",
    "EC",
    "PY"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItemsPerCountry": 100,
  "openOnly": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "includeSuppliers": false,
  "includeRaw": false,
  "maxSecondsPerCountry": 300
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `tenders` (type: `string`):

All tenders found in this run (one item per tender, charged as the 'tender' event).

## `tendersDetailed` (type: `string`):

Same items with every normalized field.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "countries": [
        "BR",
        "MX",
        "CO",
        "EC",
        "PY"
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "software"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("frankely84/latam-public-tenders").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "countries": [
        "BR",
        "MX",
        "CO",
        "EC",
        "PY",
    ],
    "keywords": ["software"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("frankely84/latam-public-tenders").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "countries": [
    "BR",
    "MX",
    "CO",
    "EC",
    "PY"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "software"
  ]
}' |
apify call frankely84/latam-public-tenders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,frankely84/latam-public-tenders"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/jCSBDCnqh3JkmpsvR/builds/RsZqdWXiVYrncJ6UX/openapi.json