MercadoPublico Chile - Public Procurement Data

Access structured data from Chile's public procurement platform MercadoPublico.cl. Extract licitaciones (tenders), organization profiles, seller information, proposals, award results, and bidding statistics.

What data can you get?

• Licitaciones — Tender details including name, status, budget, dates, buyer organization, description, and product categories
• Organizations — Public buyer entities with contact info, RUT, and procurement metrics (complaints, payment times)
• Sellers — Supplier profiles with contact details, extracted emails/phones, proposal history, and award bid records
• Proposals — Bids submitted by sellers for each licitacion, including pricing and ranking
• Awards — Winning bids and full bid comparison tables (all participants)
• Bidding Statistics — Pre-computed analytics: win rates, price dispersion, top bidders, market competitiveness by buyer+product
• Files — Attached documents for each licitacion
• Activity — Change history for licitaciones (status changes, new proposals, new attachments, awards)

Examples

Get a specific licitacion

Retrieve full details for a single procurement by its ID.

{
  "action": "get-licitacion",
  "entityId": "4455-77-LE25"
}

Sample output:

{
  "licitacion_id": "4455-77-LE25",
  "lic_name": "Adquisicion de equipamiento informatico",
  "lic_status": "Publicada",
  "lic_budget": "15000000",
  "lic_currency": "Peso Chileno",
  "lic_buyer_name": "HOSPITAL DE CHILLAN",
  "date_publicacion": "2025-06-15 10:30:00",
  "date_cierre": "2025-06-25 15:00:00",
  "lic_description": "Adquisicion de notebooks y monitores..."
}

Extract all published licitaciones from a date range

Bulk-extract tenders with filters. The actor paginates automatically.

{
  "action": "list-licitaciones",
  "status": "Publicada",
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-06-30",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Get all licitaciones from a specific organization

{
  "action": "list-organization-licitaciones",
  "entityId": "7067",
  "period": "12m",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Look up a seller and their award history

{
  "action": "get-seller",
  "entityId": "76543210-K"
}

{
  "action": "list-seller-award-bids",
  "entityId": "76543210-K",
  "period": "24m",
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Sample output (award bids):

{
  "licitacion_id": "1234-56-LE25",
  "item_number": 1,
  "item_description": "Notebook HP ProBook 450",
  "unit_price": 650000,
  "is_winner": 1,
  "seller_name": "Tecnologia SpA",
  "lic_name": "Adquisicion equipamiento TI",
  "buyer_name": "HOSPITAL DE CHILLAN",
  "date_adjudicacion": "2025-05-20"
}

Compare all bids for a licitacion

See every bid submitted (winners and losers) to analyze competitiveness.

{
  "action": "list-award-bids",
  "entityId": "4455-77-LE25"
}

Get bidding statistics for a buyer + product combination

Pre-computed market analytics: average prices, number of participants, win rates, top bidders.

{
  "action": "get-bidding-stats",
  "entityId": "7067",
  "secondaryId": "51142600"
}

Get seller contacts (extracted emails and phones)

{
  "action": "get-seller-contacts",
  "entityId": "76543210-K"
}

List all proposals for a licitacion

{
  "action": "list-proposals",
  "entityId": "4455-77-LE25"
}

Dump reference lists

Get all organizations, categories, or sellers to discover available entity IDs.

{ "action": "list-organizations" }

{ "action": "list-categories" }

{
  "action": "list-sellers",
  "maxItems": 5000
}

Input Reference

Field	Type	Required	Description
action	string	Yes	Action to perform (see below)
entityId	string	Depends	Entity identifier (licitacion ID, org code, seller RUT, category code)
secondaryId	string	No	Secondary identifier (product code for get-bidding-stats)
status	string	No	Filter by licitacion status: Publicada, Cerrada, Adjudicada, Desierta, Revocada
organization	string	No	Filter by buyer organization code
dateFrom	string	No	Start date filter (YYYY-MM-DD)
dateTo	string	No	End date filter (YYYY-MM-DD)
period	string	No	Time period: 6m, 12m, 24m, all (default: 6m)
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum items to extract (default: 100, max: 10,000)

All Available Actions

Single-Entity Lookups

Action	entityId	Description
get-licitacion	Licitacion ID (e.g., 4455-77-LE25)	Full tender details with buyer name
get-organization	Org code (e.g., 7067) or RUT	Organization profile
get-organization-metrics	Org code or RUT	Complaints, payment metrics
get-category	Category code (e.g., 51142600)	Product category info
get-seller	Seller RUT (e.g., 76543210-K)	Supplier profile
get-seller-contacts	Seller RUT	Extracted emails and phone numbers
get-bidding-stats	Buyer org code + secondaryId (product code)	Market competitiveness analytics
get-seller-stats	Seller RUT	Seller's bidding performance across markets
get-buyer-stats	Buyer org code	Buyer's procurement activity by product

Per-Entity Lists

Action	entityId	Description
list-proposals	Licitacion ID	All proposals submitted
list-award-winners	Licitacion ID	Winning bids only
list-award-bids	Licitacion ID	All bids (winners + losers)
list-files	Licitacion ID	Attached documents
list-activity	Licitacion ID	Change history (status changes, new proposals, awards)
list-seller-proposals	Seller RUT	All proposals by this seller
list-seller-award-bids	Seller RUT	Award bid history

Bulk Extraction (auto-paginated)

Action	Required Filters	Description
list-licitaciones	At least one of: status, organization, dateFrom, dateTo	Filtered tender list
list-organization-licitaciones	entityId	Organization's tenders (use period to control time range)
list-category-licitaciones	entityId	Tenders by product category

Reference Lists

Action	Description
list-organizations	All public buyer organizations
list-categories	All product categories
list-sellers	All registered sellers (paginated via maxItems)

Output

Data is pushed to the default Apify dataset. Each action returns different fields — licitaciones include licitacion_id, lic_name, lic_status, lic_budget, date_publicacion, etc. Sellers include seller_rut, seller_name, seller_email, etc. Use the dataset export to download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use Cases

• Market research — Analyze procurement spending by organization, category, or time period
• Competitive intelligence — Track which sellers win bids, at what prices, and how often
• Lead generation — Find active suppliers by category with contact information
• Price benchmarking — Compare bid prices across licitaciones for specific products
• Procurement monitoring — Track new tenders and status changes for specific organizations or categories
• Compliance & transparency — Audit public spending and award decisions