# Portugal Public Contracts Scraper (BASE) (`publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper`) Actor

Extract Portuguese public procurement from Portal BASE: contracts with entity, contractor, price, CPV, contestants and documents, and procurement announcements with base price and deadline.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Public Money](https://apify.com/publicmoney) (Apify)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 tenders

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

This Actor reads Portugal's public procurement from **Portal BASE** (base.gov.pt), the official register run by IMPIC: **public contracts** (contracting entity, contractor, procedure, price, signing date, CPV, contestants, documents) and **procurement announcements** published in the Diário da República (base price, proposal deadline, CPV, procedure link).

### What it does

- **Contracts**: 2,531,014 in the register when this was verified; 908 published on 15 September 2026. With details: contracting and contracted parties with NIF, contestants and invitees, CPV, contract type, estimated base and effective price, execution deadline and place, status, framework agreement, procedure link and documents.
- **Announcements**: 252,933 in the register; 85 published on 15 September 2026. With details: announcement number, Diário da República number and series, contracting entities, CPV, contract type, procedure link.
- **Filters**: publication date window and keyword, searched by BASE.

### Use cases

| You need to | How this Actor does it |
| --- | --- |
| Find Portuguese tenders to bid on | Announcements, read `proposalDeadline` and `basePrice` |
| See who wins public contracts | Contracts, group by `contracted` |
| Track a market | `keyword`, e.g. ambulância |
| Competitor bids | Contracts with details, read `contestants` |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it controls |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `mode` | string | `contracts` | `contracts` or `announcements` |
| `dateFrom` | string | two days ago | First publication day |
| `dateTo` | string | today | Last publication day |
| `keyword` | string | empty | Text search |
| `fetchDetails` | boolean | `true` | Read each record's detail |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Caps how many records are returned, and so the cost |

```json
{
    "mode": "announcements",
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-15",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30"
}
```

### Output (contract)

```json
{
    "id": 15622884,
    "objectBriefDescription": "PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS PARA LIMPEZA E MANUTENÇÃO DO EDIFICIO ESCOLAR ",
    "contractingEntity": "Município de Redondo",
    "contracted": [
        {
            "name": "NATALINA JOSÉ DE CARVALHO GARCIAS FALÉ",
            "nif": "-",
            "baseId": 5120735
        }
    ],
    "procedureType": "Consulta Prévia",
    "initialContractualPrice": 12600,
    "cpvs": "90910000-9",
    "publicationDate": "2026-09-15",
    "signingDate": "2026-09-09",
    "executionPlace": "Portugal, Évora, Redondo"
}
```

### Coverage and limits

- A party whose tax number is a natural person's keeps the name; the NIF is removed.
- Texts are in Portuguese, as published.

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `tender-scraper` event per record written to the dataset. The optional schema.org block is charged once per run.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Public contracts (908 published on 15 September 2026) or procurement announcements in the Diário da República (85 that day).

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

First publication day, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: two days before today.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Last publication day, inclusive, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Text search run by BASE, e.g. 'ambulancia' (5 contracts in 2026, 11 in 2025).

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Contracts: parties with NIF, contestants, CPV, prices, deadline, place, status, documents. Announcements: number, Diário da República reference, entities, CPV, procedure link.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many records are written to the dataset, and so caps the cost. Set to 0 for everything matched.

## `schemaOrg` (type: `boolean`):

Appends a `schemaOrg` object to every record, mapping it to schema.org (Demand). Charged once per run, not per record.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "contracts",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "schemaOrg": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Contracts or announcements matched by the run, one item per record, in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 500 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 500
}' |
apify call publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,publicmoney/base-portugal-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/awpbGx0pjs8LYfb6s/builds/1Ricxqp8E4CXplmoX/openapi.json