LATAM Government Contracts & Suppliers: Brazil and Colombia

By LatSouth. Every public contract awarded to a company in Brazil (PNCP, the national public procurement portal) and Colombia (SECOP II), in one English schema with values in local currency and USD, plus a supplier view: one row per company that wins public contracts, with how much it won, from whom, in which category, and its industry, size and region from the official company registry.

Brazil: contracts published on PNCP 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-22; Colombia: SECOP II contracts signed 2015-06-11 to 2026-10-20 (all history).

Contracts	3,982,827 (Brazil 3,181,269 · Colombia 801,558), US$486.9B awarded
Suppliers	369,754 companies (Brazil 268,216 · Colombia 101,538)
Data as of	2026-10-23 (both countries downloaded that day); every row carries data_as_of
Price	US$0.005 per row returned: 1,000 rows = US$5; the 10-row example = US$0.05
Typical run	7-8 s on the platform (both prefilled-style examples, 10 rows)

Company data only: suppliers who are natural persons (Brazilian CPF, Colombian cédula, sole traders/MEI) are not in the data, sole-owner company names are masked (***), and no e-mail, phone or legal-representative field exists.

Who it's for

• Vendors selling to Latin American governments: see who buys what you sell, at what price, from whom. Search awarded contracts by keyword ("software", "licencia", "ambulância"), category (UNSPSC in Colombia) and buyer.
• B2B prospecting of companies that win public contracts: the suppliers mode is a pre-qualified list of solvent, formally registered companies with a track record, ranked by money won, filterable by industry (ISIC), region and size, and joined to the company registry (legal name, verified website in Brazil).
• Monitoring new awards: schedule the Actor daily or weekly with only_new_since: "7 days" and get only the new contracts for your keywords, buyers or competitors (supplier_tax_ids).
• Market sizing: every run reports how many rows match per country (OUTPUT.matching_by_country), even if you pull a 10-row sample.

Two modes

contracts (default): one row per awarded contract.

Field group	Fields
Ids	country, contract_id, process_id, contract_reference, url (official page of the contract or process)
Buyer	buyer_tax_id (CNPJ / NIT), buyer_name, buyer_unit_name (BR), buyer_level (federal/state/municipal; CO national/territorial), buyer_branch, buyer_sector (CO), buyer_region_name, buyer_region_code (ISO 3166-2), buyer_city, buyer_city_code (BR IBGE)
Supplier	supplier_tax_id, supplier_tax_id_type (CNPJ / NIT), supplier_name, supplier_name_masked, supplier_is_pyme (CO SME flag), supplier_is_consortium (CO unión temporal / consorcio)
What	contract_type, procurement_method (CO), category_system + category_code + category_label_en (CO: UNSPSC 8-digit code, English segment label; BR: PNCP process category PNCP-01..11: purchases, ICT, works, services, engineering, health, ...), description (Portuguese / Spanish, as published)
Money	value_local, value_initial_local (BR), currency (BRL / COP), value_usd, fx_month, fx_local_per_usd, value_outlier
Dates	signed_date, start_date, end_date, published_date, updated_at, status (CO, in English)
Provenance	data_as_of, source, source_license

suppliers: one row per supplier tax ID.

Field group	Fields
Totals	contracts_count, contracts_last_12m, total_value_local, total_value_usd, value_usd_last_12m, max_contract_value_usd, first_award_date, last_award_date, distinct_buyers
Top	top_buyer_tax_id, top_buyer_name (by value), top_buyer_region_name, top_category_code / top_category_label_en (by count)
Flags	is_pyme (CO, latest contract), is_consortium (CO)
Registry join	in_company_registry, registry_match (exact; BR also cnpj_root_head_office when the contract was signed by a branch), registry_legal_name, registry_trade_name, registry_is_active, registry_sector, registry_isic_section / registry_isic_division (+ English label), registry_activity_label_en, registry_size_class, registry_region_name, registry_region_iso, registry_city, registry_website (BR: HTTP-verified)
Region	region_name + region_basis (registry = the company's registered address; top_buyer = region of its main buyer when the company is not in the registry)

Registry match: Brazil 98.86% of suppliers (99.74% of the value) are active companies in the Receita Federal CNPJ registry, 41,823 with an HTTP-verified website; Colombia 59.68% (53.23% of the value) are in the RUES registry (the rest are mostly consortia / uniones temporales, which get their own NIT, public hospitals and other non-registered entities).

Input examples

New software contracts in both countries (the prefilled example):

{"countries": ["CO", "BR"], "keywords": ["software"], "only_new_since": "60 days", "max_results": 10}

Weekly monitor of IT contracts above US$50k from Colombian national entities' categories 43 / 81:

{"countries": ["CO"], "category_prefixes": ["43", "8111"], "min_value_usd": 50000, "only_new_since": "7 days"}

Everything one company won (Brazil CNPJ or Colombia NIT, punctuation and check digit optional):

{"supplier_tax_ids": ["33.000.167/0001-01", "860.002.964-4"], "max_results": 1000}

Software companies that won public contracts in the last year, largest first:

{"mode": "suppliers", "isic_divisions": ["62"], "last_award_after": "12 months", "only_in_registry": true}

Relative dates ("7 days", "2 weeks", "3 months") work in every date field. sort_by: contracts published_desc (default), signed_desc, value_desc; suppliers total_value_desc (default), last_award_desc, contracts_desc, value_last_12m_desc.

How the data is built

• Brazil: PNCP public API /api/consulta/v1/contratos, by publication date. Only suppliers with tipoPessoa = PJ are ever stored; then sole traders / MEI (legal nature 213-5) and natural-person natures are removed using the Receita Federal CNPJ open data, and EIRELI / one-person law firms are masked. Contracts are de-duplicated by PNCP control number (latest rectification wins).
• Colombia: SECOP II "Contratos Electrónicos" (datos.gov.co jbjy-vk9h), only suppliers identified by a NIT in the legal-entity range; natural persons (cédula, or a personal NIT) are never downloaded or stored; legal-representative, bank-account and officer columns are never requested. Sole-owner company names are masked as in our registry.
• USD: value_usd = value_local / fx_local_per_usd, the monthly average official rate of the signing month (BRL: Banco Central PTAX; COP: TRM, Superintendencia Financiera). A single contract above US$1 billion is treated as a source data-entry error: value_local keeps the published figure, value_usd is empty and value_outlier is true (Colombia: 17 such rows, e.g. a hospital service registered at US$117 trillion).
• Free text (description) is published as-is, except that Brazilian CPF and Colombian cédula numbers are replaced by [id removed].

Attribution and licences

• Colombia: SECOP II - Contratos Electrónicos, Agencia Nacional de Contratación Pública - Colombia Compra Eficiente, published on datos.gov.co under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rows were filtered and transformed by LatSouth (English schema, company suppliers only, USD values). If you redistribute Colombian rows, keep the attribution and the same licence.
• Brazil: Fonte: PNCP - Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (pncp.gov.br). Contracts are public acts under Lei 14.133/2021 and the Access to Information Law (Lei 12.527/2011).
• Company registry fields: Receita Federal CNPJ open data (Brazil); Confecámaras RUES + Supersociedades, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Colombia). Every row carries source and source_license; OUTPUT.attribution repeats the credits.

Pricing and limits

Pay per event: US$0.005 per row (record). The run stops at max_results (default 1,000 via API) or at your spending limit, whichever comes first, and says so in OUTPUT.stopped_by_budget. No platform-usage surcharge for the query itself beyond Apify's standard compute.

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