# World Bank Tender Deadline Watchdog (`hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog`) Actor

Watches the official World Bank procurement notice API for open Invitation-for-Bids and Expression-of-Interest tenders by country/sector keyword, and ranks each by days left to its real submission deadline with the buyer's direct contact.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog.md
- **Developed by:** [Halil Erdogan](https://apify.com/hllerdgn80) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.01 / 1,000 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## World Bank Tender Deadline Watchdog

Give this Actor a sector keyword and/or a list of countries. It queries the
**official World Bank procurement notice API**
(`search.worldbank.org/api/v2/procnotices` - no API key, no login) for open
"Invitation for Bids" and "Request for Expressions of Interest" notices and
returns, per notice:

- project, country, buyer reference number and description, straight from
  the World Bank's own record
- the real bidder **submission deadline date and time**
- a computed **days\_left** and a **risk\_level** - `URGENT`, `WATCH`,
  `OPEN`, `EXPIRED` or `NO_DEADLINE` - based on how close that deadline is
- the buyer's own **contact name, organization, address, email and phone**
  so a bidder can act on the notice without opening the World Bank site

### What makes this different

Checked live against the World Bank procurement search on 27 Sep 2026:
every competing Actor in this space ("World Bank Procurement Notice
Scraper", "World Bank Procurement Notices and Awards Scraper", "World Bank
Procurement Notices & Contract Awards Scraper", and similar) extracts the
**raw notice fields and stops there** - no deadline countdown, no urgency
ranking, no direct contact surfaced as an actionable field. A user still
has to open every notice and do the date math by hand to know which ones
are worth chasing this week.

This Actor also queries the API's own `qterm` (keyword) and
`project_ctry_name` (country) filters server-side instead of dumping every
notice and filtering client-side, so a run against one sector/country pair
only pulls the notices that matter, and merges/de-duplicates results
across every (country x notice type) combination requested in one run.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `keyword` | Sector/product keyword matched via the World Bank's own `qterm` search. Optional. |
| `countries` | List of project country names (World Bank spelling). Optional - omit for worldwide. |
| `noticeTypes` | Which notice types to include; only "Invitation for Bids" and "Request for Expressions of Interest" carry a real deadline. |
| `maxNoticesPerQuery` | Notices fetched per (country, notice type) combination before filtering. Default 50. |
| `minDaysLeft` | Drop notices whose deadline is closer than this (or already past). Default 0 - set negative to keep expired notices for historical analysis. |
| `urgentWithinDays` | Threshold for the URGENT risk level (WATCH is 2x this). Default 7. |

### Output (one row per notice, soonest deadline first)

```json
{
  "notice_id": "OP00471425",
  "notice_type": "Invitation for Bids",
  "notice_status": "Published",
  "notice_date": "26-Sep-2026",
  "project_country": "Bangladesh",
  "project_id": "P508058",
  "project_name": "Bangladesh Sustainable Recovery, Emergency Preparedness and Response Project",
  "bid_reference_no": "BSTRONG/BWDB/NOA/HATIYA/W-08",
  "bid_description": "River Bank Protection work in Lower Meghna River from km 21.800 to km 22.800",
  "procurement_method": "Request for Bids",
  "procurement_group": "CW",
  "submission_deadline_date": "2026-10-15T00:00:00Z",
  "submission_deadline_time": "13:00",
  "days_left": 18,
  "risk_level": "WATCH",
  "contact_name": "S. M. Refat Jamil",
  "contact_organization": "Noakhali WD Division BWDB, Noakhali",
  "contact_address": "Office of the Executive Engineer, Noakhali WD Division, BWDB, Sonapur, Noakhali-3802.",
  "contact_email": "ee.noakhali@gmail.com",
  "contact_phone_no": "02-334491143",
  "contact_country": "Bangladesh",
  "source_url": "https://search.worldbank.org/en/notices/procurement?id=OP00471425"
}
```

### Source

Official, public, key-free: [World Bank Procurement Notices search](https://search.worldbank.org/en/notices/procurement),
backed by `https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/procnotices`. Verified live
on 27 Sep 2026 (200 OK, `total: 45630` open Invitation-for-Bids notices at
the time of writing). No scraping of HTML, no login, no terms-of-service
bypass - this is the World Bank's own public search API returning JSON.

### Known local-machine note

The Actor retries on `http.client.IncompleteRead`, a transient truncated-read
error some older TLS stacks raise against HTTPS endpoints; it is not a World
Bank API error and a retry normally succeeds.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Free-text keyword matched against the notice's title and description on the official World Bank procurement search (their own "qterm" parameter), e.g. "solar", "road rehabilitation", "laboratory equipment". Leave blank to pull every open notice for the selected country/countries instead.

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

Project country names exactly as the World Bank site spells them, e.g. "Kenya", "Bangladesh", "Uganda". Leave empty to search worldwide. Each country is queried separately and results are merged.

## `noticeTypes` (type: `array`):

Which official World Bank procurement notice types to include. "Invitation for Bids" and "Request for Expressions of Interest" are the two types that carry a real bidder submission deadline; "General Procurement Notice" is an early heads-up with no fixed deadline.

## `maxNoticesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many of the most recent notices to pull per (country, notice type) query from the World Bank API before deadline-filtering. The API returns newest-first, so a small number is normally enough; raise it if a country/sector has heavy tender volume and you want deeper coverage.

## `minDaysLeft` (type: `integer`):

Drop notices whose submission deadline has already passed or is closer than this many days - set to a negative number (e.g. -1) to keep already-expired notices too, for historical analysis.

## `urgentWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

A notice is labelled risk\_level URGENT when its deadline is this many days away or closer, WATCH when further out but inside double this window, and OPEN otherwise.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "solar",
  "countries": [
    "Kenya",
    "Uganda",
    "Bangladesh"
  ],
  "noticeTypes": [
    "Invitation for Bids",
    "Request for Expressions of Interest"
  ],
  "maxNoticesPerQuery": 50,
  "minDaysLeft": 0,
  "urgentWithinDays": 7
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keyword": "solar",
    "countries": [
        "Kenya",
        "Uganda",
        "Bangladesh"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog").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 = {
    "keyword": "solar",
    "countries": [
        "Kenya",
        "Uganda",
        "Bangladesh",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog").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 '{
  "keyword": "solar",
  "countries": [
    "Kenya",
    "Uganda",
    "Bangladesh"
  ]
}' |
apify call hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hllerdgn80/world-bank-tender-deadline-watchdog"
        }
    }
}
```

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/rtwsj06ZebrPhUwQg/builds/osehqXgpVB4Wli9ds/openapi.json