# Romania Public Procurement Scraper (SICAP) (`publicmoney/sicap-romania-scraper`) Actor

Extract Romanian public procurement from SICAP (e-licitatie.ro): contract notices (authority, CPV, procedure, estimated value, deadline) and award notices with every contract, winner and value.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/publicmoney/sicap-romania-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

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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 Romania's electronic public procurement system (**SICAP**, e-licitatie.ro): **contract notices** (contracting authority, CPV code, procedure, estimated value, tender deadline) and **award notices** with every contract, its winner, fiscal code and value.

### What it does

- **Contract notices**: 2,107 published in September 2026 when this was verified — notice number, authority with fiscal code, title, supplies/services/works, procedure, CPV, publication date, tender deadline, estimated value in RON.
- **Award notices**: total awarded value in RON, lowest and highest offer, and each contract: number, date, title, lots, value, currency, winner name, fiscal code, city, country, joint winners.
- **Any date range**, read day by day, newest first.
- Keyword and contracting-authority filters.

### Use cases

| You need to | How this Actor does it |
| --- | --- |
| Find open Romanian tenders | Contract notices, read the deadline |
| See who wins Romanian contracts | Award notices, group by winner fiscal code |
| Track one authority's buying | Authority filter on notices or awards |
| Price a market | Award values with lowest and highest offers |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it controls |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `mode` | string | `notices` | `notices` or `awards` |
| `dateFrom` | string | six days ago | First publication day |
| `dateTo` | string | today | Last publication day |
| `keyword` | string | empty | Matched in title and CPV |
| `authority` | string | empty | Authority name or fiscal code |
| `fetchWinners` | boolean | `true` | Contracts and winners for awards |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Caps how many notices are returned, and so the cost |

```json
{
    "mode": "awards",
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
    "keyword": "carburant"
}
```

### Output (award notice)

```json
{
    "noticeNo": "SCNA1122220",
    "contractingAuthority": "17554094 - Biroul Regional pentru Cooperare Transfrontaliera Calarasi pentru granita Romania-Bulgaria",
    "contractTitle": "Servicii întreținere și reparații auto",
    "contractType": "Servicii",
    "procedureType": "Procedura simplificata",
    "cpv": "50110000-9 - Servicii de reparare si de intretinere a autovehiculelor si a echipamentelor conexe (Rev.2)",
    "publicationDate": "2026-09-15T21:12:16+03:00",
    "contractValueRon": 1458000,
    "contracts": [
        {
            "contractNo": "4328",
            "contractDate": "2025-06-24T00:00:00+03:00",
            "contractValue": 9600,
            "currency": "RON",
            "winnerName": "DA CAPO",
            "winnerFiscalNumber": "RO 2732517",
            "winnerCity": "Calarasi"
        }
    ],
    "winners": "DA CAPO"
}
```

### Coverage and limits

- SICAP lists at most 3,000 notices per query; the Actor reads one day at a time, far below that, and logs a warning if a day ever reaches it.
- Texts are in Romanian, as published.
- A winner fiscal number shaped like a personal numeric code (CNP) is removed; the name is kept.

### Pricing

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

# Actor input Schema

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

Contract notices (open calls; 86 published on 15 September 2026) or award notices with contracts and winners (167 that day).

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

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

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

Last publication day, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today. Days are read newest first.

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

Matched in the contract title and CPV text, e.g. 'carburant' (6 contract notices in September 2026).

## `authority` (type: `string`):

Matched in the authority name or fiscal code, e.g. 'COMUNA' or '4344538'.

## `noticeTypeIds` (type: `array`):

Optional SICAP notice type ids to restrict to. Empty: all types.

## `fetchWinners` (type: `boolean`):

For award notices, read every contract with winner name, fiscal code, city, value and lot. One extra request per notice.

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

Caps how many notices 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": "notices",
  "fetchWinners": true,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "schemaOrg": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Notices matched by the run, one item per notice, 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/sicap-romania-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/sicap-romania-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/sicap-romania-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,publicmoney/sicap-romania-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/JfENCPq2RzQOmPdvQ/builds/vKocDPhcG0eXMNiEg/openapi.json