📋 BidNetDirect Government Bids Scraper

Collect public bid opportunities directly from BidNetDirect without coding. Extract open or closed government bids by listing URL or by live search filters, with practical fields for procurement monitoring, deadline tracking, and market research. Export everything as CSV, Excel, or JSON for use in spreadsheets, CRMs, or internal reporting workflows.

This actor is built for contractors, business development teams, procurement researchers, and consultants who need structured bid data without manually reviewing listing pages one by one. It supports both fast listing-only collection and optional detail enrichment for additional public fields such as AI overview text and full publication and closing timestamps.

The BidNetDirect Government Bids Scraper collects publicly available BidNetDirect opportunities through a simple no-code interface, capturing listing fields, search metadata, and optional public detail-page fields for reporting, monitoring, and opportunity discovery.

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Find the Actor: Open BidNetDirect Government Bids Scraper in the Apify Store or Console.
3. Set Your Input: Choose either startUrl or search filters, then decide whether to enable includeDetails.
4. Run It: Click Start and let the actor collect the matching opportunities.
5. Download Data: Export your results as CSV, Excel, or JSON.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: aiOverview, bidId, bidStatus, bidUrl, closingDate, closingDateTime, contentGroup, description, issuingOrganization, location, publicationDateTime, publishedDate, scrapedAt, solicitationNumber, source, timeRemaining, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the BidNetDirect Government Bids 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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