🏛️ DIBBS RFQ Scraper

Pull structured records from DIBBS RFQ — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

Whether you're a government contractor tracking new procurement opportunities, a supply chain analyst monitoring defense spending, or a business development team looking for DLA solicitations, this actor makes it easy to collect structured RFQ data from DIBBS - filtered exactly how you need it.

The DIBBS RFQ Scraper collects Request for Quotation solicitations from DLA's Internet Bid Board System, with powerful filtering by NSN, FSC, and keywords, plus direct PDF download links for every solicitation.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📋 Solicitation data - collect solicitation numbers, item descriptions, quantities, and units of issue from active RFQs
• 🔢 NSN & FSC codes - extract National Stock Numbers and Federal Supply Classification codes for precise categorization
• 📄 PDF download links - get direct URLs to solicitation documents for offline review
• 📅 Return-by dates - track bid submission deadlines so you never miss an opportunity
• 🔍 Powerful filters - narrow results by NSN, solicitation number, description keyword, or FSC code
• 📊 Detail page data - optionally collect status, issue date, set-aside type, fast-award and Mil-Spec flags, the exact solicitation PDF link, the technical-data link, and attachments
• 📄 Full PDF text - optionally extract the whole SF-18 solicitation text, which is where buyer name, phone, email, procurement history and clauses live

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: allCodes, buyerCode, description, fsc, indexFileDate, nsn, nsnRaw, pdfFileName, pdfUrl, purchaseRequest, quantity, returnByDate, returnByDateRaw, scrapedAt, solicitationNumber, solicitationNumberRaw, typeCode, unitOfIssue, url. All 19 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

With Include Detail Page Data enabled, each record also carries status, issueDate, detailReturnBy, setAside, fastAwardCandidate, eProcurement, milSpec, nomenclature, solicitationPdfUrl, plus techDocsUrl and attachments on the solicitations that have them. With Include Solicitation PDF Text enabled, each record also carries pdfText.

⏱️ Long runs

PDF text extraction is the slow part, so a large maxItems can outlast the run's time limit. The Actor tracks the time it has left and finishes cleanly with everything it collected instead of being cut off, telling you in the log how many records fit. If you need more, raise the run timeout in the Actor's run options or lower maxItems.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) or the U.S. Department of Defense in any way. It accesses only publicly available data from the DIBBS website.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the DIBBS RFQ Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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