Public Procurement/RFP Signal Agent

Extract structured evidence from public procurement, RFP, RFQ, tender, solicitation, bid, and business-opportunity pages: buyer hints, notice type, status, deadlines, question deadlines, published or award dates, budget/value hints, eligibility requirements, scope, submission instructions, document links, contact evidence, categories, risk labels, evidence URLs, and stable change hashes.

This Actor is built for AI agents, bid-tracking workflows, sales teams, market researchers, procurement analysts, and vendor qualification systems that need a compact public evidence record without logging into procurement portals or crawling government databases.

What It Returns

• Notice title, notice type, procurement status, and opportunity hints from public page text.
• Buyer, jurisdiction, location, deadline, question deadline, published date, award date, budget/value, and category evidence.
• Scope, eligibility, submission instruction, contact, CPV/NAICS, and official document-link hints.
• Optional focusTerms matches, evidence snippets, evidence URLs, risk labels, missing fields, and a stable procurementNoticeHash.
• Change status when you pass previous records from an earlier run.

Pricing Behavior

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing and only charges the useful result event when it finds useful public procurement/RFP evidence.

Paid event:

• useful-procurement-rfp-result

It does not charge the useful event for:

• invalid or private-network URLs;
• failed fetches;
• generic company, news, partner, hiring, or case-study pages without procurement evidence;
• weak pages that only mention procurement without buyer/deadline/scope/submission/document evidence;
• focusTerms misses;
• unchanged records when you pass a previous procurementNoticeHash;
• duplicate normalized URLs in the same run.

apify-default-dataset-item is intentionally not used.

Scope And Safety

• Public HTTP/HTTPS HTML or text pages only.
• Private-network hosts, credentials, query strings, fragments, path parameters, and token-like account paths are rejected.
• JavaScript is not executed.
• Forms are not submitted.
• Procurement portals are not logged into.
• PDF files, bid packages, addenda, attachments, vendor registration links, and external document links are recorded as evidence links only and are not fetched.
• The Actor does not crawl procurement databases, scrape private supplier accounts, submit bids, provide legal advice, or guarantee eligibility.
• Output is evidence-based and should be reviewed before bid/no-bid, sales, compliance, or legal decisions.

Example Input

{
  "procurementPageUrls": [
    "https://northwestcolorado.org/about-us/rfps-and-proposals/"
  ],
  "focusTerms": [
    "RFP"
  ],
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Best Use Cases

• Turn a public RFP, RFQ, tender, or bid page into AI-ready evidence.
• Monitor public procurement opportunity pages without paying for unchanged results.
• Extract deadlines, submission instructions, document links, and scope hints before deeper manual review.
• Filter procurement pages by focus category, buyer, geography, or service keyword.