State Procurement Bids & RFPs

Open bids, RFPs, RFQs and ITBs read directly from official US state procurement portals, normalised into one clean feed: solicitation number, title, agency, type, posted and due dates (with time zone), the detail link and the buyer's published contact. No aggregator in the middle, no account, no login: the same public listings any vendor can browse, read fresh on every run.

States: Texas (ESBD), North Carolina (eVP), Oregon (OregonBuys), Massachusetts (COMMBUYS), Illinois (BidBuy), Nevada (NevadaEPro) and New Jersey (NJSTART). About 2,000 open solicitations across the seven on a typical day.

Who it's for

• Government contractors and small businesses who want every new state bid in their line of work in one spreadsheet, every morning, instead of checking seven portals.
• Bid-matching and lead services that need a consistent, current feed of state solicitations to match against their customers' capabilities.
• Sales teams selling to the public sector tracking which agencies are buying what, and who the buyer is.

What you get per state

State	Portal	Open on 2026-10-30	Posted date	Description	Buyer contact
TX	Electronic State Business Daily	~520	yes	with Include details	name, email, phone with Include details
NC	electronic Vendor Portal	~280	yes	yes	name with Include details
OR	OregonBuys	~165	no	no	buyer name
MA	COMMBUYS	~860	no	no	buyer name
IL	BidBuy	~170	no	no	buyer name
NV	NevadaEPro	~25	no	no	buyer name
NJ	NJSTART	~25	no	no	buyer name

Every row has the solicitation number, title, agency, status, due date and a link to the official detail page, where the solicitation documents are. The portals cover state agencies and, in most states, the universities, school districts, cities and counties that post on them too.

OR, MA, IL, NV and NJ run on the same platform (Periscope BSO) and their public lists carry no posted date or description. Their detail pages answer automated reading with a bot check after a few dozen pages, so the actor does not open them: those fields stay null rather than half-filled.

Input

Field	Meaning
states	Any of TX, NC, OR, MA, IL, NV, NJ. Empty = all.
keywords	Optional list. A row is kept when any keyword appears in its title or description, case-insensitive, from the start of a word (roof matches roofing, not waterproof). Keywords of 3 letters or fewer must be a whole word, and written in capitals they match as an acronym (IT matches IT services, not it or with). OR, MA, IL, NV and NJ are matched on title only.
postedWithinDays	Optional. Only solicitations posted in the last N days. Only TX and NC publish a posted date in their lists, so the other states return nothing with this set: a row with an unknown posted date is never assumed recent.
openOnly	Default true: still open for responses (open status and due date not passed). Off: TX and NC also return closed, awarded and cancelled solicitations, newest first. The Periscope states list open bids only.
includeDetails	Default false. Opens each TX and NC detail page for the description, buyer name, email and phone (TX) and type and commodity (NC). One extra request per row.
maxItems	Default 500. Shared fairly across the chosen states. Each row is one charge.

Example: IT and software opportunities in Texas and North Carolina posted in the last 14 days, with buyer contacts.

{
  "states": ["TX", "NC"],
  "keywords": ["software", "IT services", "cloud", "cybersecurity", "network"],
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "openOnly": true,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output

One row per solicitation. A field the portal did not publish is null, never guessed.

{
  "state": "TX",
  "solicitationId": "701-27-001-R",
  "title": "Audio - Visual Services for TCDD Council Meetings",
  "description": "The Texas Education Agency (TEA), on behalf of the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities (TCDD), is seeking responses from qualified audio-visual service providers ...",
  "agency": "Texas Education Agency - 701",
  "categories": ["91507-Audio Recording", "91509-Audio/Video Production Services Complete", "91582-Video Production"],
  "type": null,
  "status": "Addendum Posted",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-22",
  "dueDate": "2026-11-05T14:00:00-06:00",
  "url": "https://www.txsmartbuy.gov/esbd/701-27-001-R",
  "attachmentsUrl": null,
  "contactName": "Demetreus Jones",
  "contactEmail": "deedee.jones@tea.texas.gov",
  "contactPhone": "(512) 936-5867",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.txsmartbuy.gov/esbd"
}

Field	Description
state	Two-letter state code
solicitationId	The portal's solicitation / bid number
title	Solicitation title
description	Short description (plain text, up to 1,000 characters): NC always; TX with Include details; null for the Periscope states
agency	Buying agency or entity as the portal names it
categories	Commodity codes as published: NIGP code and name (TX), primary commodity (NC, with Include details)
type	RFP, RFQ, IFB, ITB, RFI, RFCSP, RFQual, ...: NC's own type field (with Include details), otherwise only when the solicitation number or title carries the token explicitly. null when not stated.
status	The portal's own status word (Posted, Addendum Posted, Open, Sent, ...)
postedDate	YYYY-MM-DD (TX, NC)
dueDate	Response due / bid opening date, ISO 8601 with the state's UTC offset on that day (2026-11-19T11:00:00-05:00). Date only when the portal gave no time.
url	Official detail page for the solicitation (documents, addenda, how to respond)
attachmentsUrl	TX only: the external documents link the agency posted, when it gave one
contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone	The buyer as officially published: TX name/email/phone and NC name with Include details; buyer name on the Periscope states
sourceUrl	The public list the row came from

Public business data only. Government buyers' names, emails and phones appear only as the portals publish them as official contacts for the solicitation. No data about private individuals is collected. Titles are kept exactly as published, including the occasional garbled character a portal itself serves.

The run's key-value store has an OUTPUT record with a per-state summary (ok / partial / failed, rows listed and returned, detail pages read, error), and the log prints the same. One state failing never stops the others.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.003 per solicitation returned ($3 per 1,000). No monthly fee. Set Max solicitations or a maximum charge on the run to cap the cost; a daily run of all seven states with the default 500 rows costs $1.50.

Tips

• Daily new-bid alerts: schedule a run with postedWithinDays: 1 on TX and NC (with your keywords), and a run of the other states with keywords, then compare solicitationIds with yesterday's dataset.
• Speed: a full run of all states takes about 2 minutes. Include details adds 1-2 seconds per TX/NC row.
• Massachusetts has the largest list (850+ open bids); use keywords to narrow it.

How it reads the portals

• Texas: the public JSON service the ESBD page itself calls, 24 rows a page, plus its detail service.
• North Carolina: the eVP page's own grid service, with the anonymous request token and view settings the page gives every visitor, fetched fresh each run.
• OR, MA, IL, NV, NJ: the public "open bids" list, paged through the page's own paging call.

Politely: one request at a time per portal with a pause between requests, a user agent that says what it is (state-procurement-bids/0.1; public records), no login, no CAPTCHA solving. A portal that answers with a bot check is stopped for the rest of the run and reported, not retried.

Limits

• A portal changing its page layout or service will make that state fail (reported in the summary) until the actor is updated; the others keep running.
• The Periscope states (OR, MA, IL, NV, NJ) have no posted date, description, commodity codes or buyer email/phone.
• openOnly: false has no effect on the Periscope states, whose public lists show open bids only.