BidNetDirect Scraper

Pull open and closed US government bids, RFPs, and solicitations from BidNetDirect at scale — titles, locations, agency types, publication and closing deadlines, exact close datetimes with time zone, and AI-generated bid summaries. Search by keyword, narrow by state, NAICS category, or agency level, then export a clean dataset. Built for government contractors, GovCon sales teams, and proposal managers who need to track public bidding opportunities across the country without manually refreshing procurement portals every morning.

Why This Scraper?

• ~27,000+ open solicitations nationwide — covers BidNetDirect's full public feed of state, county, and municipal bidding opportunities, not a sampled slice.
• 55+ states & territories — filter to a single market like Texas or California, or pull every state plus DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands.
• 20 NAICS commodity & service categories — narrow to Construction, Information / IT, Professional Scientific & Technical Services, Health Care & Social Assistance, and more by category code.
• Agency-level targeting — restrict to Federal, State & Local, or Member agencies only, instead of wading through every issuer at once.
• Exact closing datetime with time zone — every detail-enriched bid carries the precise publication and submission deadline (date, time, and TZ) so you never miss a cutoff to a time-zone slip.
• AI-generated solicitation summary — a plain-language overview of what each bid is asking for, captured per listing when available, so you can triage opportunities at a glance.
• Open, closed, or both in one run — pull live opportunities, mine closed bids for historical award intelligence, or merge both feeds with a single setting.
• Published-within recency windows — limit to bids posted in the last 24 hours or last 7 days to power a daily new-opportunity digest.
• Paste saved searches directly — feed your own BidNetDirect listing URLs to reproduce an existing saved search exactly, with cross-keyword deduplication built in.

Use Cases

GovCon Lead Generation

• Build a daily pipeline of new solicitations in your service category
• Surface state & local opportunities your competitors overlook
• Target a single state or region for a focused sales push
• Feed fresh bid leads straight into your CRM

Bid / No-Bid Triage

• Scan AI summaries to qualify opportunities before reading full notices
• Sort by closing-soonest to prioritize bids with tight deadlines
• Filter by NAICS category to match your registered capabilities
• Flag federal vs. state & local bids for the right capture team

Market & Competitive Intelligence

• Map procurement volume by state and category over time
• Mine closed bids to study what agencies have historically sourced
• Benchmark opportunity flow across agency types
• Track which commodity categories are most active in a region

Deadline & Compliance Monitoring

• Maintain a live calendar of closing dates with exact times and time zones
• Set recency windows to catch newly published bids each morning
• Monitor a specific agency type for must-respond solicitations
• Never miss a submission cutoff with precise deadline data

Getting Started

Collect the Current Open-Bid Feed

Leave everything at its defaults to pull the newest open solicitations nationwide:

{
    "maxResults": 100
}

Keyword + State Search

{
    "keywords": ["road construction", "bridge repair"],
    "location": "43",
    "bidStatus": "open",
    "maxResults": 250
}

Targeted Daily Digest

{
    "keywords": ["IT services"],
    "location": "229",
    "categoryCodes": ["321393"],
    "agencyType": "2085061651",
    "publishedWithin": "HOURS_24",
    "bidStatus": "open",
    "sortBy": "closingAsc",
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Input Reference

What to Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	string[]	["road construction"]	Words or phrases to search bid titles and descriptions. Each keyword is searched separately and results are merged and de-duplicated. Leave blank to collect the full feed for your filters.
startUrls	URL[]	[]	Paste BidNetDirect search or listing URLs to scrape exactly those pages — ideal for reproducing a saved search you already have on the site.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
bidStatus	select	Open bids only	Collect Open bids only, Closed bids only, or All bids.
location	select	All locations	Limit to a single US state or territory (55+ options). Leave on All locations for nationwide.
categoryCodes	string[]	[]	Narrow by commodity or service using BidNetDirect category codes such as 320204 (Construction), 321393 (Information / IT), or 321609 (Professional, Scientific & Technical Services).
agencyType	select	All agencies	Restrict to All agencies, Member agencies, State & local agencies, or Federal agencies.
publishedWithin	select	Any time	Only collect bids published within a recent window: Any time, Last 24 hours, or Last 7 days.
sortBy	select	Newest first (published date)	Order results by Newest first, Oldest first, Closing soonest, or Closing latest.

Output Detail & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch each bid's detail page to add the exact publication and closing datetime (with time zone) plus the AI summary overview when available. Turn off for faster, listing-only runs.
maxResults	integer	100	How many bids to collect across all keywords and URLs. Set to 0 to collect as many as possible.

Output

Each result is one government solicitation. Here's a representative item with full details enabled:

{
    "title": "Road Construction and Resurfacing Services",
    "bidId": "444075341785",
    "status": "open",
    "agencyType": "State & Local Agency",
    "location": "Texas",
    "publishedDate": "Jun 12, 2026",
    "closingDate": "Jul 15, 2026",
    "timeRemaining": "18 days left",
    "bidUrl": "https://www.bidnetdirect.com/texas/solicitations/open-bids/statewide/road-construction/444075341785",
    "exactPublishedDate": "Jun 12, 2026 9:00 AM CDT",
    "exactClosingDate": "Jul 15, 2026 2:00 PM CDT",
    "aiOverview": "The agency is seeking qualified contractors to provide road resurfacing and pavement repair across designated county routes, including materials, labor, and traffic control.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-26T14:32:07.512000+00:00"
}

Fields

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Solicitation title
bidId	string	BidNetDirect bid identifier (used for de-duplication)
status	string	open or closed
agencyType	string	Issuing agency level (e.g. State & Local Agency, Federal Agency)
location	string	US state or territory the bid is posted under
publishedDate	string	Publication date as shown on the listing
closingDate	string	Submission deadline date as shown on the listing
timeRemaining	string	Human-readable time left until the bid closes
bidUrl	string	Direct link to the bid's detail page
exactPublishedDate	string	Precise publication datetime with time zone (with includeDetails)
exactClosingDate	string	Precise closing datetime with time zone (with includeDetails)
aiOverview	string	AI-generated summary of the solicitation when available (with includeDetails)
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of when the bid was collected

Tips for Best Results

• Run a recency window for daily digests — set publishedWithin to Last 24 hours and schedule the actor each morning to capture only brand-new opportunities without re-pulling old bids.
• Combine state + category for precision — pairing location with a NAICS categoryCodes value cuts a nationwide feed down to exactly the opportunities your team can bid on.
• Sort by Closing soonest to triage deadlines — closingAsc surfaces the bids with the least time remaining first, so urgent responses rise to the top.
• Keep includeDetails on for deadline-critical work — the exact closing datetime with time zone is only captured from the detail page; listing dates alone omit the time and TZ.
• Use bidStatus: "all" for historical research — it merges both the open and closed feeds so you can study what agencies have sourced in the past, not just what's live today.
• Paste a saved search URL — if you've already tuned filters on BidNetDirect, drop the resulting URL into startUrls to reproduce it exactly rather than rebuilding it here.
• Start small, then scale — set maxResults to 25-50 on your first run to confirm the data fits your workflow, then raise it for full pulls.

Pricing

From $10.00 per 1,000 results — a flat pay-per-result rate covering the entire US public procurement feed, with no hidden tiers for enriched data. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$1.20	$1.13	$1.07	$1.00
1,000	$12.00	$11.30	$10.70	$10.00
10,000	$120.00	$113.00	$107.00	$100.00
100,000	$1,200.00	$1,130.00	$1,070.00	$1,000.00

A "result" is any solicitation row in the output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly available government procurement listings for legitimate business research, lead generation, and bid tracking. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and BidNetDirect's Terms of Service. Do not use collected data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.