Texas Government Bids — Open State & Local Solicitations
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$3.00 / 1,000 bid record delivereds
Texas Government Bids — Open State & Local Solicitations
Open bids from the official Texas TxSmartBuy ESBD portal — state agencies plus SmartBuy member cities, counties, school districts and universities. Filter by keyword, NIGP code, agency, or date. Deduped, open-only, with an 'only new since last run' mode. No SAM.gov noise.
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$3.00 / 1,000 bid record delivereds
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Every open bid on the official Texas TxSmartBuy portal (ESBD), as clean structured data — without digging through the portal's search UI, and without the federal SAM.gov noise.
Texas state agencies and Texas SmartBuy member entities — cities, counties, school districts, universities, hospital districts — post solicitations of $25,000 and up on the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD). This actor reads that same official portal and returns only what's open right now.
What you get
One record per open solicitation:
- Solicitation ID and title
- Agency / SmartBuy member name and number
- Status (
PostedorAddendum Posted— open only, no awarded/closed/cancelled history) - Posting date, response due date and time
- NIGP commodity/service codes with descriptions (your trade filter)
- Direct link to the official posting, plus the agency's external bid link when one is provided
- Last-modified timestamp from the portal
Who it's for
- Contractors and service companies (janitorial, HVAC, landscaping, electrical, construction, IT, staffing…) who sell to Texas government and want a daily feed of their trade's open bids.
- Bid consultants and aggregators building a Texas SLED pipeline without maintaining a portal scraper.
- Sales teams watching a specific agency or set of agencies.
Inputs
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| Keyword | Free-text match (e.g. janitorial) |
| NIGP code | 5-digit trade code (e.g. 91039 janitorial, 91082 HVAC maintenance) |
| Agency number | Portal agency/member number (e.g. 601 TxDOT) |
| Posted on/after · on/before | Posting-date window |
| Solicitation ID | Look up one exact posting |
| Open only | Default on — open statuses only |
| Only new since my last run | Monitor mode: scheduled runs return only bids never delivered before. First run delivers the in-scope baseline. |
| Max results | Cap per run (you're only charged for what's delivered) |
Pricing
$0.003 per bid record delivered (pay-per-event). A full sweep of every open Texas solicitation — 502 records at last check — costs about $1.51. A trade-filtered daily monitor run typically costs a few cents.
Honest notes
- Source is the official portal itself (txsmartbuy.gov), read through the same public JSON service the site's own search page uses. No login is required or used. Data is as current as the portal; posting and due dates are the portal's own.
- "Open" follows the portal's own statuses. An addendum-posted bid is still open — it's included and labelled.
- Texas only. This actor deliberately does not clone the federal SAM.gov feeds — federal opportunities are a different (already well-served) market.
- Records are deduplicated on the portal's internal record ID. If a solicitation is reposted under a new ID, it counts as a new record, because it is one.
Verified before listing
Local end-to-end test, 2026-10-27: full open sweep returned 502 records (365 Posted + 137 Addendum Posted), 0 duplicates, 0 non-open records; keyword filter janitorial returned exactly the open janitorial postings; "only new" second run returned 0 records with both baseline records correctly skipped as already seen. Sample output: see sample-output.json in this repository.
