# Costa Rica Procurement Scraper (SICOP) (`publicmoney/sicop-costa-rica-scraper`) Actor

Extract Costa Rican public procurement from SICOP: procedures with institution, type, status, budget, offer deadline, bid opening and full conditions, by registration date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/publicmoney/sicop-costa-rica-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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# README

This Actor reads Costa Rica's public procurement from **SICOP**, the Sistema Integrado de Compras Públicas: every procurement procedure registered in a date range, with institution, procedure type, status, offer period and bid opening, plus each procedure's full notice (budget, procedure detail, clarification window, conditions and every field SICOP publishes).

### What it does

- **Procedures by registration day**: 161 registered on 5 October 2026 when this was verified; 4,237 from 1 September to 6 October.
- **Filters at the source**: keyword in the title, procedure type (e.g. `LD` licitación reducida), only those receiving offers; institution name matched by the Actor.
- **Full notice** (on by default): budget, procedure type and detail, goods or services, offer period, opening, clarification deadline, offer validity, joint bids, general, special and administrative conditions as text, and every other published field in `details`.

### Use cases

| You need to | How this Actor does it |
| --- | --- |
| Find Costa Rican tenders to bid on | `receivingOffersOnly`, read `offerDeadline` and `budget` |
| Track one institution | `institution`, e.g. Municipalidad |
| Watch a product or service | `keyword` in the title |
| Analyse procurement by type | `procedureType`, `procedureTypeName` |

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | What it controls |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `dateFrom` | string | two days ago | First registration day (Costa Rica time) |
| `dateTo` | string | today | Last registration day |
| `keyword` | string | empty | Title |
| `institution` | string | empty | Institution name |
| `procedureType` | string | empty | Procedure type code, e.g. `LD`, `LY`, `PX` |
| `receivingOffersOnly` | boolean | `false` | Only procedures receiving offers |
| `fetchDetails` | boolean | `true` | Read each procedure's notice |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Caps how many procedures are returned, and so the cost |

```json
{
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-29",
    "dateTo": "2026-10-05",
    "receivingOffersOnly": true
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "procedureNumber": "2026LD-000085-0012300001",
    "title": "SERVICIO DE CATERING SERVICE",
    "institution": "TRIBUNAL SUPREMO DE ELECCIONES",
    "procedureTypeName": "LICITACIÓN REDUCIDA",
    "goodsOrServices": "SERVICIOS",
    "status": "En recepción de ofertas",
    "budget": 1000000,
    "registeredAt": "2026-10-05T21:31:00-06:00",
    "offerDeadline": "2026-10-12T10:00:00-06:00",
    "openingAt": "2026-10-12T10:05:00-06:00"
}
```

### Coverage and limits

- Budgets are in colones (`budget`) unless SICOP publishes a dollar budget (`budgetUsd`).
- Texts are in Spanish, as published.

### Pricing

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

# Actor input Schema

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

First registration day in Costa Rica time, YYYY-MM-DD. Default: two days before today. 5 October 2026 had 161 procedures.

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

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

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

Searched by SICOP in the procedure title, e.g. 'servicio' (997 from 1 Sept to 6 Oct 2026).

## `institution` (type: `string`):

Matched in the institution name, e.g. 'Municipalidad', 'Caja Costarricense'.

## `procedureType` (type: `string`):

SICOP procedure type code, searched by SICOP, e.g. 'LD' (licitación reducida, 2,480 from 1 Sept to 6 Oct 2026), 'LY' (licitación mayor), 'PX' (procedimiento por excepción).

## `receivingOffersOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only procedures currently receiving offers (985 of 4,237 from 1 Sept to 6 Oct 2026).

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

Adds budget, procedure type name, goods or services, clarification deadline, offer validity, the general, special and administrative conditions, and every published field.

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

Caps how many procedures 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
{
  "receivingOffersOnly": false,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "schemaOrg": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Procedures matched by the run, one item per procedure, 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/sicop-costa-rica-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/sicop-costa-rica-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/sicop-costa-rica-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,publicmoney/sicop-costa-rica-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/9Udn2BJ4ueUWILGNe/builds/tKcWh3zdhHcdigghP/openapi.json