DIBBS RFQ Scraper

Scrape Request for Quotation (RFQ) solicitations from the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) — the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency's public procurement portal at www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil.

Each run returns structured RFQ records with solicitation numbers, NSNs, item nomenclature, quantities, quote deadlines, and direct PDF links so you can respond to defense contracts without manual copy-paste from the site.

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What you get

One dataset record per open RFQ solicitation:

Field	Type	Description
nsn	string	National Stock Number — e.g. 8455-01-665-8745
fscCode	string	Federal Supply Class (first 4 NSN digits)
nsnDetailUrl	string	Link to the NSN detail page on DIBBS
nomenclature	string	Plain-language item name/description
hasTechDocs	boolean	Whether technical documents are available
solicitationNumber	string	Unique solicitation identifier
solicitationPdfUrl	string	Direct link to the solicitation PDF
packageViewUrl	string	Link to the Package View detail page
quoteStatus	string	Current RFQ/quote status
purchaseRequest	string	Purchase request number
quantity	string	Required quantity
issuedDate	string	ISO date the solicitation was issued
returnByDate	string	ISO date quotes are due
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp when the record was collected

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How it works

DIBBS requires a browser — every URL redirects to a DoD consent banner (dodwarning.aspx) that must be clicked before any data is accessible. After consent, the actor browses the RFQ by Issue Date index, opens each date's record page (an ASP.NET GridView table), extracts all 9 data columns per row, and pages through multi-page date sets via __doPostBack links.

For filtered queries (NSN, FSC, keyword, or solicitation number), the actor submits the DIBBS search form and extracts matching results instead.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	200	Maximum number of RFQ records to return. Required.
nsnFilter	string	—	Filter by National Stock Number. Leave blank for all NSNs.
fscFilter	string	—	Filter by Federal Supply Class code (first 4 digits of NSN).
solicitationFilter	string	—	Filter by solicitation number prefix or partial match.
keywordFilter	string	—	Filter by keyword in item description.

Minimal run

{
  "maxItems": 100
}

Filtered run — find open RFQs for a specific NSN

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "nsnFilter": "8455-01-665-8745"
}

Filtered run — all aircraft-parts solicitations

{
  "maxItems": 200,
  "fscFilter": "1560"
}

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Notes

• No account required. DIBBS is a public procurement portal — all scraped data is openly accessible.
• U.S. government site. Data collected is from a .mil domain with no robots.txt restrictions on public listing pages.
• No proxy needed. Standard datacenter IPs are accepted; there is no anti-bot protection beyond the DoD consent banner.
• Session concurrency: 1. A single browser session navigates the site in sequence to avoid consent-state conflicts.
• Pagination handled automatically. Multi-page date sets are fully traversed; maxItems applies across the entire run.

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Pricing

Billed per record via the pay-per-result model — you only pay for records actually collected, not for browser time or empty pages.