US State Open Bids: NC, Missouri & Washington

Collect and normalize the public open-procurement lists of North Carolina eVP, MissouriBUYS / MOVERS and Washington WEBS. Filter by topic or agency and receive new, changed or no-longer-listed opportunities in repeat runs. All pages of selected lists are traversed before delivery; the Actor fails explicitly when pagination, access or the source contract changes.

Quick start

Run the default input for a current snapshot of all three states. Select fewer states or provide keywords to reduce paid output. Keywords use case-insensitive OR matches in title, description and solicitation number. agencyKeywords independently filters the agency name; both filters must match when both are supplied. Washington does not publish a separate agency field, so an agency filter excludes its records. Set includeBuyerContact to true to add the structured buyer name and email where a state list publishes them; it is false by default. There is no invented classification or AI enrichment.

For recurring use, choose mode: "changes" and provide a persistent stateStoreId. The first run establishes a baseline and delivers selected current bids. Later runs deliver only semantic changes. Keep filters and contact settings consistent, and serialize runs sharing a store. A separate baseline is maintained for each combination of states, keywords, agency filters and contact settings.

Source coverage

State	Public source	Available metadata and limitations
NC	North Carolina eVP	Solicitation number, description, public title, agency, posting time and bid-opening time. The public grid does not establish a separate submission deadline.
MO	MissouriBUYS / MOVERS	Solicitation number, title, agency, type, published/open/close times and publicly listed buyer contact when requested. Links point to the official listing; use the exact solicitation number to locate the opportunity.
WA	Washington WEBS bid calendar	Title, reference where available, description, closing date, amendment date and public contact name. No separate agency, publication timestamp or closing time is inferred.

No account, CAPTCHA bypass, proxy, attachments, or account-only bid detail extraction is used. A source link can lead to a portal requiring registration for additional documents; the Actor supplies public-list metadata only. The Missouri public API contains a versioned route: a provider deployment can require adapter maintenance. Sources remain responsible for updates, accuracy and reuse conditions. No unrestricted open-data licence is claimed. Respect applicable source terms; do not redistribute separately protected bid attachments.

Results

One dataset item is one delivered opportunity or change event. recordId prefixes a stable source identifier with NC, MO or WA; different states' procurement numbers are never conflated. Missing values remain null.

publishedAt, bidOpeningAt, openForBiddingAt and closingAt are separate timestamp fields. Missouri's OpenDate is the start of accepting bids, recorded as openForBiddingAt; it is not North Carolina's bid-opening event. closingDate and amendedDate preserve date-only information where the portal gives no time. Do not substitute a bid-opening time for a submission deadline or infer a midnight closing timestamp. sourceTimezone explains local date interpretation; UTC timestamps retain the source's offset semantics. Public amendment text and attachment counts are retained where Missouri exposes them; attachments themselves are not downloaded.

changeType is snapshot, new, changed or not_in_open_list. A snapshot is a current record, not a claim that its content changed. The last event is issued only after a complete fresh traversal of selected states and means that the bid is absent from the current public open list. It is not proof of cancellation, award or closure. Previous content is retained for that event. Display-only countdowns and observation timestamps do not trigger changes. Structured buyer contacts default to null; descriptions can still contain publicly supplied contact information.

Download SUMMARY for source counts, filtering and delivery completeness. maxItems caps output, not page coverage. Spend limits are applied before dataset delivery. Only delivered events advance the baseline; undelivered events remain pending for a future changes run. A truncated delivery is explicitly marked. Source failure produces no new dataset batch and no baseline advance. Do not interpret a zero-result filtered snapshot as proof that a state has no procurement activity.

The Actor journals delivery and checks dataset read-back before baseline updates. Resuming a fully delivered run avoids another dataset push. Changed, concurrent or uncertain storage stops rather than guessing whether a paid delivery occurred. Serialize runs and inspect an incomplete run before starting another one with the same state.

Pricing

$0.005 to start with the default 256 MB of memory, plus $0.01 per delivered record ($1 per 100 records), including platform usage. Apify charges the start event per GB of allocated memory, with a minimum of one event; choosing more than 1 GB increases the start fee. A current snapshot delivers and charges its selected bids each time. Changes mode charges only delivered new, changed or no-longer-listed events, plus the start fee. Empty and failed runs may still incur the start fee. No external subscription or AI cost is required. Subsequent storage and external API reads follow Apify platform rules.

This is a bounded metadata feed, not a procurement eligibility decision, legal assessment or a guarantee that a bid remains open when you submit. Check the official opportunity and its documents before acting. Contact support with the run ID and a nonconfidential example.