LatAm & Global Tender Intelligence

One Actor, seven open public-procurement sources. Pick the sources for each run and receive only the tenders, notices and grant calls that are new or changed since your last run, as clean JSON in the dataset.

Typical users: bid teams and consultants tracking public tenders, grant scouts, procurement analysts and sales teams that sell to governments.

What is covered

Source id	What it reads	Scope to know before you rely on it
ar_tucuman	Province of Tucumán (Argentina) public tenders across the upcoming-opening, in-award and awarded registers, with line items, amounts and the tender-document PDF link	Open server-rendered portal.
ar_entrerios	Province of Entre Ríos (Argentina), Unidad Central de Contrataciones: procedure, object, destination, body and status	The portal publishes no id and no date per record. Ids are a hash of the row text, so a silent correction of that text upstream can appear as a new record. There is no date filter.
cl_diario_oficial	Chile Diario Oficial, electronic edition: laws, decrees, resolutions and notices of today's edition, "normas generales" section, with issuing ministry or agency, description and the official PDF link	Only that section is read; the other six sections are held because the site's robots.txt disallows them.
eu_ted	EU TED contract and award notices (all member states) through the official anonymous TED Search API, filtered by a TED expert-search query (expertQuery)	TED documents that its paging gives no consistency guarantee between pages: a notice can be missed or repeated within one run. Repeats are removed; a miss is picked up by the next run. Up to 10,000 notices per run.
us_florida	State of Florida MyFloridaMarketPlace Vendor Information Portal: state-agency solicitations (ITB, RFP, ITN, RFI and others)	The portal's terms license registered vendors to download content for non-commercial use and do not address automated access. This Actor never registers or logs in and links to attachments instead of downloading them. Whether your downstream use is acceptable is your decision.
world_bank_notices	World Bank procurement notices (invitations for bids, expressions of interest, general procurement notices, award announcements) from the World Bank's procurement-notices API	ADB and IDB notices are not included.
it_lombardia_grants	Regione Lombardia regional grants and tenders register ("Anagrafica dei bandi regionali") with a derived UPCOMING / OPEN / CLOSED status	CC BY 4.0, attribution Regione Lombardia, carried in each row's license field. The policy-area taxonomy of the earlier Actor is not reproduced. An optional Socrata app token is accepted.

Not available (held): ar_santafe (no request from Apify's cloud got an answer: five runs ended fetch failed after 53 seconds on 2026-11-03, while the portal answers within a second from Argentina), ar_cordoba and ar_pba (their portals block non-residential, non-Argentine traffic at the network level, and this Actor does not route around network blocks), ar_salta and ar_mendoza (held by the Actor publisher's decision), au_grantconnect (the host answers HTTP 403 to honestly identified requests and offers no API, CSV or RSS feed for awards), adb_procurement (bot-challenge on every path) and idb_procurement (robots.txt disallows the programmatic paths). A held source cannot be selected: the input form does not list it, and the platform rejects an API call that names one as invalid input before a run starts, so nothing is charged. Should one ever reach the Actor, the run stops before any request to a source is made and before any record is billed; the platform still charges the start event of a run that has started.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab and choose one or more sources. Start with one. The form is prefilled with a small snapshot (deltaMode: "all", 10 records per source) so that the first run shows data at once; for a scheduled Task set deltaMode to onlyChanged and raise maxItemsPerSource.
2. Run it. The first run of a source treats every record it reads as new (see "Control your spend" below).
3. Put the same input in a Task and attach an Apify Schedule. Each Task keeps its own delta memory, so later runs deliver only what changed.
4. Read the results from the dataset, the Apify API, or an Apify webhook/integration.

Example input:

{
  "sources": ["ar_tucuman", "us_florida"],
  "sourceOptions": {
    "us_florida": { "includeContactDetails": true }
  },
  "deltaMode": "onlyChanged",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 200,
  "watchlistNames": ["road maintenance"]
}

Each source validates its own slice of sourceOptions and rejects unknown keys, so a typo fails the run in preflight instead of being ignored.

Delta modes

deltaMode	Delivers
onlyChanged (default)	Records seen for the first time, and records whose content changed (for example a status change or an added document)
onlyNew	Records seen for the first time
all	Every record, unchanged ones included (tagged delta_status: "unchanged")

Delta memory is kept per stateNamespace (default: one per Task) in a key-value store named latam-global-tender-intelligence-delta-state in your account. Give two Tasks that run at the same time different namespaces: a second concurrent run of the same namespace and source is refused. A run that is killed (timeout, abort, out of memory) cannot release its lease, so a restart on the same namespace is refused until 15 minutes after that run's last heartbeat (the refused run still pays the start event); a new namespace would start from an empty memory and deliver, and bill, everything again. To restart a source from scratch, delete its state.<namespace>.<source> and journal.<namespace>.<source> records.

Output

Every dataset row carries engine, source, record_id, delta_status, is_new, is_watchlist_match, matched_watchlist_keyword and scraped_at, plus the fields of the source. A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists per-source counts, warnings and watchlist accounting.

A run ends FAILED when preflight finds a problem (an unknown or held source, a missing credential, an invalid option) before any request, or when every selected source failed and nothing was delivered. If at least one source answered, the run succeeds and the per-source errors stay on RUN_SUMMARY: check it in automated pipelines.

Watchlist

watchlistNames is a list of keywords matched case-insensitively as substrings against each record's text (buyer, object, issuing authority and similar). Entries shorter than three characters (letters or digits, not counting punctuation), blank or punctuation-only entries are ignored; with no valid keyword nothing matches. A matching record is flagged is_watchlist_match and billed a Watchlist hit event on top of its row event. Two hard ceilings apply per run: maxWatchlistHitsPerRun (default 200) and maxWatchlistSpendUsd (default 50). Use broad keywords with care.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The Pricing tab shows the current price of every event; prices are deliberately not repeated on this page so that it cannot go out of date.

• Actor start: charged per GB of memory the run is configured with. This Actor uses 1 GB, so each run starts one start event.
• One row event per delivered record, named by source: Tender record (ar_tucuman, ar_entrerios, cl_diario_oficial, us_florida); Tender summary record (a us_florida row delivered from the listing alone, without a detail page); Procurement notice (world_bank_notices); New EU TED notice and Updated EU TED notice (eu_ted); New Lombardia grant call and Updated Lombardia grant call (it_lombardia_grants).
• Watchlist hit: see above.

With deltaMode: "all" every delivered record is billed, unchanged ones at the source's "Updated" event (or its only row event). Records that are not delivered are not billed a row event.

Control your spend

• The first run of a source delivers up to maxItemsPerSource records (default 500, range 1 to 10,000) and bills each one. The Entre Ríos portal alone lists thousands of rows; for a trial set a low value such as 20.
• Use Apify's maximum-cost-per-run setting as an additional ceiling. When the limit is reached the run stops cleanly and RUN_SUMMARY says so (stoppedOnChargeLimit). The platform refuses a limit below the start event plus the most expensive single event of the Actor and names the minimum in its error.
• Keep deltaMode at onlyChanged for scheduled runs.

Reliability notes

Delivery is at-least-once: a progress checkpoint is written every 25 rows and a small journal after every row that was delivered and billed, so after a hard kill at most the one record in flight can be delivered and billed again. A memory record that exists but cannot be read fails its own source instead of being treated as empty.

Credentials

Only socrataAppToken (optional, for it_lombardia_grants) is accepted. It is stored encrypted by Apify and never logged.

Data sources and licences

Records are published by the named public bodies. Lombardia data is under CC BY 4.0 (attribution Regione Lombardia); the EU TED API, the World Bank API and the other portals are used under their publishers' own terms, which you should check for your use case. The Florida portal's terms are summarised in the table above.

Disclaimer

This Actor reads public portals and reports what they publish. Portals change, lag and sometimes correct or withdraw notices; confirm deadlines and requirements on the official notice before you bid.

Support

Questions and bug reports: the Issues tab of this Actor (https://apify.com/stefano_seggio/latam-global-tender-intelligence/issues/open).