TX Solicitation Lookup by Bid Number (tx-esbd-get)

Look up one specific Texas government solicitation by its bid number and get the full normalized record back - agency, status, dates, and structured NIGP codes.

Use this when you already have the bid number (from an email alert, a notification, or a spreadsheet of tracked opportunities) and want the current state of that one posting without pulling a search result set around it.

Low cost

From $0.01 per record - you are charged per matching record delivered, never for the query itself. A lookup that finds nothing costs nothing. A run is capped at $1, so a mistyped query can never run up a bill.

What you get

{
  "platform": "tx-esbd",
  "agency": "Parks & Wildlife Department - 802",
  "agencyNumber": "802",
  "title": "17ft Center Console Mud Boat Packages",
  "bidNumber": "802-27-75102-BR",
  "status": "Awarded",
  "publishedDate": "7/24/2026",
  "closeDate": "8/7/2026 2:00 PM",
  "nigpCodes": [
    { "code": "12021", "description": "Boats, 21 Feet And Under" },
    { "code": "12063", "description": "Motors, Outboard, Gasoline" }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.txsmartbuy.gov/esbd/802-27-75102-BR",
  "created": "7/24/2026 8:25 am",
  "lastModified": "8/27/2026 4:10 pm"
}

Fields: platform, agency, agencyNumber, title, bidNumber, status, publishedDate, closeDate, nigpCodes (structured), url, created, lastModified.

Inputs

Input	What it does
bidNumber	The solicitation's bid number, exactly as the state publishes it (e.g. 802-27-75102-BR).
pages	Scan depth from the newest record (24 records per page). Default 50.

Example inputs

The current state of one tracked bid:

{ "bidNumber": "HHS0017699" }

A bid number taken from an alert email - the number is matched exactly as the state publishes it:

{ "bidNumber": "IW265385" }

An older posting - raise pages so the scan reaches further back from the newest record:

{ "bidNumber": "802-27-75102-BR", "pages": 500 }

Why this is hard

The source offers no lookup endpoint by identifier - a bid number is not a key you can hand the API, only something you can recognize once you have the record. So the run scans the corpus from the newest record until it finds the one you asked for. If the solicitation is old and untouched, the bid may sit deeper than the scan reached; the run reports how far it looked so you can tell "no such bid" from "not reached yet".

Example output

A run with no bidNumber - the actor tells you what it needs rather than scanning the corpus:

{
  "_meta": true,
  "note": "Provide 'bidNumber' to look up a solicitation (e.g. HHS0017156v2). No bidNumber was supplied on this run."
}

{"bidNumber": "802-27-75102-BR"} returns that one solicitation in the normalized shape shown under What you get - the same record every actor in the family returns.

The rest of the Texas family

Your goal	Actor
Find bids by keyword, NIGP, agency, status	tx-esbd-search
Check one specific bid by its number	tx-esbd-get - you are here
Monitor new & changed solicitations on a schedule	tx-esbd-changes
Who won state contracts, at what amounts	tx-esbd-awards
Find / vet a vendor - HUB, SDV, small business, NIGP capability	tx-cmbl-vendors
Find disabled-veteran (DV) HUB vendors	tx-hub-certified
Statewide contracts - who's on each SPD/TxSmartBuy contract	tx-smartbuy-contracts
Pull the raw full corpus (query + monitor) - power users	sled-tx-procurement

Notes

• Data source: Texas Comptroller - ESBD. Public state records.
• No login, no anti-bot - uses the official public JSON API.
• Also available as a hosted MCP tool (j0401--tx-esbd-get) for AI assistants.

License

MIT - see ./LICENSE.

Disclaimer

This product is an independent data service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the State of Texas or any government agency. All solicitation data is public government information. We recommend verifying any opportunity on the official portal before acting.