# Procurement Award Winner Tracker (`seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker`) Actor

Track public procurement award notices with buyer, winning vendor, contract title, value, date, duration, category, and sales intelligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Techionik](https://apify.com/seeb) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$25.00 / 1,000 award results

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,
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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

## Procurement Award Winner Tracker

Track public procurement award notices with buyer, winning vendor, contract title, value, date, duration, category, and sales intelligence.

Procurement Award Winner Tracker is built for one focused job: turning public source pages or pasted research snippets into usable award result records. It does not try to be a generic webpage scraper. The parser, fields, examples, and dataset schema are shaped around this actor's specific business question.

Use it when you already have public pages, listings, announcements, reviews, directories, or copied snippets and want a repeatable way to extract the information that matters without manually filling a spreadsheet.

### Who Uses It

GovTech sellers, public-sector sales teams, procurement analysts, competitive intelligence teams, and bid-monitoring agencies.

### What It Finds

The actor looks for signals connected to track public procurement award notices with buyer, winning vendor, contract title, value, date, duration, category, and sales intelligence. It keeps the output focused on fields a buyer can review, filter, enrich, or send into a CRM, spreadsheet, product backlog, procurement workflow, or research database.

The extraction method is specific to this actor:

Award-notice extraction with buyer/vendor split, value/date capture, duration parsing, service categorization, and incumbent-market signal.

### How It Works

1. The actor accepts public URLs or pasted snippets in `awardSources`.
2. Public URLs are fetched when possible and converted into visible text.
3. Pasted snippets are processed directly, which is useful for pages that block automated fetching or require manual browsing.
4. Actor-specific parsing logic extracts only the fields listed below.
5. Empty or low-information inputs are skipped safely, with clean logs instead of noisy failed rows.

### Input

Use `awardSources` for the sources you want to process. Each item can be a public URL or a focused text snippet.

```json
{
    "awardSources": [
        "City of Austin awarded BrightData Systems a $1.2M contract for cloud migration services on July 8, 2026. Duration 24 months.",
        "NHS Trust procurement result: SecureLayer wins cyber risk assessment framework worth £450,000, awarded 2026-06-30.",
        "State Education Office award notice selects LearnGrid for digital curriculum platform implementation valued at $875,000."
    ],
    "maxResults": 3
}
```

### Output Fields

- `buyerOrganization` - Public buyer or organization awarding the contract.
- `winningVendor` - Vendor selected in the award notice.
- `contractTitle` - Contract, project, or service title.
- `awardValue` - Disclosed award value.
- `awardDate` - Award date.
- `contractDuration` - Contract term or duration.
- `serviceCategory` - Procurement service category.
- `incumbentSignal` - Why the winner matters for market tracking.
- `salesIntelligence` - How sales or competitor teams can use the award signal.
- `awardUrl` - Award notice URL.

### Example Output

```json
{
    "buyerOrganization": "City of Austin",
    "winningVendor": "BrightData Systems",
    "contractTitle": "cloud migration services",
    "awardValue": "$1.2M",
    "awardDate": "July 8, 2026",
    "contractDuration": "24 months",
    "serviceCategory": "cloud services",
    "incumbentSignal": "winner identified from public award notice",
    "salesIntelligence": "Track vendor activity, renewal windows, and competitor wins",
    "awardUrl": "https://example.com/award"
}
```

### Best Use Cases

- Build a focused spreadsheet from repeated source pages.
- Review public signals before sales, partnership, product, procurement, or market research work.
- Monitor a category over time using the same output fields.
- Turn copied notes from newsletters, communities, directories, review pages, or search results into a structured dataset.

### Tips For Better Results

- Use source pages that visibly contain the signal you want this actor to extract.
- For hard-to-fetch sites, paste the relevant public text snippet directly into the input.
- Keep each input item focused on one page, listing, announcement, review, or profile.
- Review extracted rows before making high-stakes business, legal, procurement, or security decisions.

### Limitations

- The actor does not bypass logins, paywalls, private systems, CAPTCHA, or anti-bot walls.
- The actor extracts from visible text and may miss information hidden behind scripts or user interactions.
- Some fields may be empty when the source does not contain that information.
- Output quality depends on source quality, so focused source text produces the strongest rows.

# Actor input Schema

## `awardSources` (type: `array`):

Add public URLs or paste focused text snippets. Use one source per row. The actor extracts only signals that match its specific purpose.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of useful dataset rows to save.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "awardSources": [
    "City of Austin awarded BrightData Systems a $1.2M contract for cloud migration services on July 8, 2026. Duration 24 months.",
    "NHS Trust procurement result: SecureLayer wins cyber risk assessment framework worth £450,000, awarded 2026-06-30.",
    "State Education Office award notice selects LearnGrid for digital curriculum platform implementation valued at $875,000."
  ],
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker").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 '{}' |
apify call seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seeb/procurement-award-winner-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

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/52yBGrJiMncMK1iWt/builds/D98wcEjgZf5MEtCdP/openapi.json