UN Tender & Award Watch (UNGM Lifecycle)

Follow UN Global Marketplace tenders and awards through their lifecycle — new notices, and changes to deadline, type or status — as a change feed keyed on the source-native UNGM notice id. Public, logged-out UNGM search; no API key, login, cookie or CAPTCHA.

What each record contains

A notice_record (snapshot) or notice-delta (watch) carrying the UNGM notice fields as listed, keyed on the source-native notice id. In watch mode each delta is NEW / CHANGED / REMOVED with before / after and changed_fields.

First run and later runs — read this first

This Actor sells change detection, not bulk export. There are two modes:

• Snapshot (watch_mode: false, the prefilled default): returns the current notices as a preview, hard-capped at 25 records regardless of max_items. Billed one source-check only — the preview records themselves are not billed. Use it to see the data right now.
• Watch (watch_mode: true): the first run seeds a private baseline and emits zero deltas (billed one source-check). Every run after emits one delta per change — this is where the value comes from. A run with no changes emits zero and bills only the source-check.

So a brand-new watch run returns nothing by design; point it at a schedule and the deltas start on the next change.

Quick start

The form is prefilled for a snapshot so you see records immediately:

{ "title_contains": "", "page_size": 25, "pages": 1, "watch_mode": false, "max_items": 40 }

Then set watch_mode: true and run on a schedule (Apify Console → Schedules; a daily or weekly cadence is typical) to get the change feed.

What it costs

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
Actor start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Source check (source-check)	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08	$0.067
Notice delta (notice-delta)	$0.15	$0.135	$0.12	$0.1005

source-check is charged once per run after enumeration terminates (seed and genuine-zero runs included). notice-delta is the primary value event. Billed deltas are capped at 500/run; overflow is reported as a withholding, not charged.

Source, scope and limits

UNGM public notice search (https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/Search), logged-out only. Snapshot mode is a capped preview, not a bulk record export. Terminal states: NORMAL · SUCCEEDED-0: GENUINE_EMPTY · SUCCEEDED-0 (no change) · PARTIAL · BLOCKED. A zero with no evidence fails loud rather than exiting quietly.

Who it's for

Bid and capture teams tracking UN procurement, suppliers watching deadlines and awards, and procurement-intelligence teams that need a dated change feed rather than a one-off list.