# GeM India Bids Scraper (`publicmoney/gem-india-bids-scraper`) Actor

Extract bids and reverse auctions from India's Government e-Marketplace (GeM): bid number, item category, quantity, ministry, department, start and end dates, bid type and the bid document link, for ongoing, evaluated, awarded and cancelled bids.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/publicmoney/gem-india-bids-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,
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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 India's **Government e-Marketplace (GeM)** bid list — bids and reverse auctions from central and state ministries, departments and public bodies — and returns one record per bid with its item category, quantity, buyer, start and end dates and the link to the bid document.

### What it does

- Returns **one record per bid or reverse auction**: 44,694 ongoing, 3.37 million awarded and 961,263 cancelled when this was verified.
- **Filters at the source**: keyword (contains or exact bid number), status (ongoing, in technical or financial evaluation, awarded, cancelled), bid type (product, service, BOQ, rate contract, global, limited or single tender…), high-value only and an end-date range, with GeM's four sort orders.
- Links each bid's **document PDF** the way the GeM page does.
- Handles GeM's session, token and access from outside India on every run; nothing to configure.

### Use cases

| You need to | How this Actor does it |
| --- | --- |
| Find GeM bids for your products | Keyword plus bid type `product`, read the end date |
| Watch high-value tenders | `highValueOnly` and schedule the run |
| Analyse what India buys | Pull awarded bids by category and ministry |
| Track a ministry or department | Filter by keyword and group by `ministry` / `department` |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it controls |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `keyword` | string | empty | GeM search |
| `exactMatch` | boolean | `false` | Exact search, e.g. a full bid number |
| `status` | string | `ongoing` | `ongoing`, `technical_evaluation`, `financial_evaluation`, `awarded`, `cancelled` |
| `bidType` | string | `all` | `product`, `service`, `bidToRA`, `custom`, `boq`, `rcbid`, `gt`, `lt`, `st` |
| `highValueOnly` | boolean | `false` | Only bids GeM flags as high value |
| `endDateFrom` / `endDateTo` | date | empty | Bid end-date range (within a year of today) |
| `sort` | string | GeM default | Start or end date, latest or oldest first |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Caps how many bids are returned, and so the cost |

```json
{
    "keyword": "solar",
    "bidType": "product",
    "maxItems": 100
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "bidNumber": "GEM/2026/R/744443",
    "bidKind": "RA",
    "itemCategory": "ELISA Reader and Washer - Semi Automated",
    "quantity": 1,
    "department": "Health & Family Welfare Department Gujarat",
    "startDate": "2026-10-01T19:00:00Z",
    "endDate": "2026-10-05T11:21:53Z",
    "parentBidNumber": "GEM/2026/B/7559982",
    "isHighValue": false,
    "bidDocumentUrl": "https://bidplus.gem.gov.in/showradocumentPdf/9970935"
}
```

`raw` carries every other field GeM returns for the bid, as published.

### Coverage and limits

- Fields are what GeM's bid list returns; the bid document is linked, not parsed.
- Many bids share an identical end time and GeM's sort has no tie-breaker, so a tied bid can move across a page boundary between requests. Repeats are dropped; on large runs a tied bid can occasionally be missed.
- The buyer official's GeM login name is returned by the source and dropped by this Actor.

### Pricing

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

# Actor input Schema

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

Search run by GeM. Example: 'solar' (268 ongoing bids when verified). With Exact match on, use a full bid number such as 'GEM/2026/B/8021470'.

## `exactMatch` (type: `boolean`):

GeM's exact search (whole values such as a bid number) instead of its contains search.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Filtered by GeM. When verified: ongoing 44,694, technical evaluation 181,351, awarded 3,373,420, cancelled 961,263.

## `bidType` (type: `string`):

Filtered by GeM. Product had 33,851 and service 10,844 ongoing bids when verified.

## `highValueOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only bids GeM flags as high value (2,744 ongoing when verified).

## `endDateFrom` (type: `string`):

Bids ending on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). GeM accepts dates within a year either side of today.

## `endDateTo` (type: `string`):

Bids ending on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order as GeM sorts. Default: end date oldest first for ongoing bids, latest first otherwise.

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

Caps how many bids 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
{
  "exactMatch": false,
  "status": "ongoing",
  "bidType": "all",
  "highValueOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "schemaOrg": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Projects 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/gem-india-bids-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/gem-india-bids-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/gem-india-bids-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,publicmoney/gem-india-bids-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/m53kl7AcawNUZCSb9/builds/bhAex0ITyjFbtcazj/openapi.json