# Brazil Public Tenders Monitor (PNCP licitações) (`rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp`) Actor

Find Brazilian government tenders (licitações) from PNCP, the official national procurement portal: open calls receiving proposals or published in a date range. Filter by keyword, modality, state, city, agency and value, and get only new tenders on scheduled runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp.md
- **Developed by:** [RODRIGO](https://apify.com/rodrigon) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 tender returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## Brazil Public Tenders Monitor (PNCP licitações)

**Find Brazilian government tenders (licitações) worth bidding on**, straight from the **PNCP – Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas**, the official portal where every federal, state and municipal body must publish its procurements under Law 14.133/2021.

🇧🇷 *Versão em português abaixo.*

### What you get

- 📬 **Open tenders receiving proposals right now**, or everything **published in a date range**.
- 🔎 **Keyword filter** on the tender object (accent- and case-insensitive) plus **exclude keywords**.
- 🗺️ Filters by **modality** (pregão eletrônico, concorrência, dispensa…), **state**, **city (IBGE code)**, **agency CNPJ** and **estimated value range**.
- 🔔 **Only new tenders since last run** – schedule it daily and receive just the new opportunities (send them to e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets or your CRM with Apify integrations).
- 🔗 Direct link to the tender page on PNCP, with documents (edital) and items.
- 💸 Pay only for tenders returned.

### Input example

```json
{
  "mode": "open",
  "keywords": ["notebook", "computador"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["locação"],
  "modalities": ["6", "4"],
  "states": ["SP", "MG"],
  "minValue": 50000,
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "id": "44430221000175-1-000016/2026",
  "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/44430221000175/2026/16",
  "object": "registro de preço para futura e eventual aquisição de equipamentos de informática, compreendendo notebooks, computadores desktop…",
  "modality": "Pregão - Eletrônico",
  "disputeMode": "Aberto",
  "status": "Divulgada no PNCP",
  "isPriceRegistration": true,
  "estimatedValue": 857478.38,
  "proposalOpening": "2026-09-03T12:00:00",
  "proposalDeadline": "2026-10-15T08:30:00",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-03T08:26:22",
  "agency": "MUNICIPIO DE MURUTINGA DO SUL",
  "agencyCnpj": "44430221000175",
  "sphere": "municipal",
  "city": "Murutinga do Sul",
  "state": "SP",
  "cityIbgeCode": "3532108",
  "legalBasis": "Lei 14.133/2021, Art. 28, I"
}
```

### Tips

- Narrow by **state** and **modality**: the PNCP API is slow (about 5 s per page), and every extra state × modality is another full listing to scan.
- Runs stop after `maxRunSeconds` (default 240) and keep what was found. Raise it for full-Brazil scans.
- Tenders with a confidential estimate have `estimatedValue: null`.

### Pricing

Pay per event: a fee per **tender returned**. See the *Pricing* tab.

### Data and legality

Uses only the **official public PNCP consultation API** (open government data, no login, no captcha). Requests are sequential per query with a small pool of parallel pages and back-off on errors.

***

## 🇧🇷 Monitor de Licitações do PNCP

**Encontre licitações abertas para a sua empresa** direto do **PNCP**, o portal oficial onde todos os órgãos federais, estaduais e municipais publicam as compras pela Lei 14.133/2021.

### O que faz

- Lista licitações **recebendo propostas agora** ou **publicadas num período**.
- Filtra por **palavras-chave** no objeto (sem diferenciar acento e maiúsculas) e **palavras para excluir**.
- Filtra por **modalidade**, **UF**, **município (código IBGE)**, **CNPJ do órgão** e **faixa de valor estimado**.
- **Só as novas desde a última execução**: agende todo dia e receba apenas as oportunidades novas por e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets ou no seu CRM.
- Link direto para a página da licitação no PNCP, com edital e itens.
- Você paga só pelas licitações entregues.

### Legal

Usa apenas a **API pública oficial de consultas do PNCP** (dados abertos, sem login e sem captcha).

# Actor input Schema

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

'open' = tenders currently receiving proposals (best for sales teams). 'published' = tenders published between the dates below.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep tenders whose object contains ANY of these terms (accents and case ignored), e.g. 'notebook', 'merenda escolar', 'software'. Empty = all.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop tenders whose object contains any of these terms.

## `modalities` (type: `array`):

Procurement modalities. Default: electronic reverse auction (pregão eletrônico) and electronic competition (concorrência eletrônica).

## `states` (type: `array`):

Two-letter state codes, e.g. SP, MG. Empty = all Brazil.

## `cityIbgeCodes` (type: `array`):

Optional 7-digit IBGE municipality codes, e.g. 3550308 (São Paulo).

## `agencyCnpjs` (type: `array`):

Optional CNPJs of the buying agencies (órgãos).

## `minValue` (type: `integer`):

Keep tenders with estimated value at least this. Tenders without a disclosed value are kept unless 'Drop tenders without value' is on.

## `maxValue` (type: `integer`):

Keep tenders with estimated value up to this.

## `dropWithoutValue` (type: `boolean`):

With a min/max value, also drop tenders whose estimated value is confidential or zero.

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

YYYY-MM-DD. Default: 7 days ago.

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

YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember tenders already delivered (in a key-value store of your account) and output only new ones. Use with a daily schedule for alerts.

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

Maximum tenders to return.

## `maxRunSeconds` (type: `integer`):

Stop scanning after this many seconds and finish with the tenders found so far. The PNCP API is slow (about 5 s per page), so whole-Brazil searches can take long; raise this for complete scans.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "open",
  "keywords": [
    "notebook",
    "computador"
  ],
  "modalities": [
    "6",
    "4"
  ],
  "states": [
    "SP"
  ],
  "dropWithoutValue": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "maxRunSeconds": 240
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "notebook",
        "computador"
    ],
    "states": [
        "SP"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp").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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "notebook",
        "computador",
    ],
    "states": ["SP"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "notebook",
    "computador"
  ],
  "states": [
    "SP"
  ]
}' |
apify call rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rodrigon/brazil-public-tenders-pncp"
        }
    }
}
```

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/FAVMwpXCPmp977a84/builds/La62b5L6kZmDoTdhO/openapi.json