Brazil PNCP Public Procurement Scraper

Data source

Data comes directly from the official PNCP (Portal Nacional de Contratacoes Publicas) public JSON API at pncp.gov.br/api/consulta, which government agencies publish to in real time as new tenders go live.

What does Brazil PNCP Public Procurement Scraper do?

This Actor pulls Brazilian government tenders (licitacoes) straight from the PNCP, the federal system every public agency in Brazil must publish procurement notices to. Each result includes the contracting agency, the object of the tender, the estimated value, the state and city, the contract modality, and the proposal open and close dates. Filters for contract type, state, keyword and date window keep runs focused and small, and you pay per result returned, not per page crawled.

Why use it?

• Lead generation: find open tenders in your industry before your competitors do.
• Market research: track how much a state or municipality spends on a category of goods or services.
• Compliance and monitoring: watch a state or agency for new procurement activity on a schedule.
• Due diligence: pull the history of tenders tied to a specific agency or region.

It replaces manually browsing the PNCP web portal page by page, which has no bulk export and only lets you look at one notice at a time.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set the contract type, state, keyword and days back filters.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new tenders automatically.

Input

Field	Description
modalidade	Contract modality to search (Pregao Eletronico, Dispensa, Concorrencia, and so on). Defaults to Pregao Eletronico, the most common.
uf	Two letter Brazilian state code to limit results to one state. Blank searches nationwide.
keyword	Keeps only tenders whose object description contains this text, case insensitive. Blank keeps everything.
daysBack	How many days back from today to search, by PNCP publication date.
maxResults	Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

Example input:

{
    "modalidade": "6",
    "uf": "",
    "keyword": "",
    "daysBack": 3,
    "maxResults": 60
}

Output

Every record has the same shape:

{
    "id": "88254875000160-1-000437/2026",
    "object": "[Portal de Compras Publicas] - PREGAO ELETRONICO PARA REGISTRO DE PRECOS DE VAGAS NO SERVICO DE ACOLHIMENTO PARA IDOSOS NO MUNICIPIO DE NOVO HAMBURGO.",
    "agency": "MUNICIPIO DE NOVO HAMBURGO",
    "uf": "RS",
    "city": "Novo Hamburgo",
    "modality": "Pregao - Eletronico",
    "estimatedValue": 2709588.12,
    "closeDate": "2026-07-09T08:59:00-03:00",
    "status": "Divulgada no PNCP",
    "openDate": "2026-06-15T15:00:00-03:00",
    "publishedDate": "2026-09-16T00:29:54-03:00",
    "processNumber": "240 / 2026 - 2595",
    "purchaseNumber": "43",
    "cnpj": "88254875000160",
    "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/88254875000160/2026/437",
    "sourceSystemUrl": "https://www.portaldecompraspublicas.com.br/processos/RS/Prefeitura-Municipal-de-Novo-Hamburgo-43/RPE-43-2026-2026-488088",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-19T01:43:51.919Z"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Stable key (PNCP control number), safe for deduplication between runs
object	What is being procured, in the agency's own words
agency	Name of the contracting government entity
uf	Two letter Brazilian state code
city	Municipality of the contracting entity
modality	Contract modality (Pregao Eletronico, Dispensa, and so on)
estimatedValue	Estimated contract value in Brazilian reais, when published
closeDate	Proposal submission deadline, ISO 8601, America/Sao_Paulo time
status	Current status of the notice on PNCP
openDate	Proposal window opening date
publishedDate	Date the notice was published to PNCP
processNumber	Agency's internal process number
purchaseNumber	Agency's internal purchase number
cnpj	Tax ID of the contracting entity
url	Public PNCP page for this notice
sourceSystemUrl	Link to the originating procurement system, when the agency provides one

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set maxResults to cap any run.

Limitations

• Covers notices published through the PNCP consulta API. Contract modality is a required filter on the source API, so one run covers one modality at a time.
• Keyword filtering happens after the agency's own published text, so results depend on how each agency wrote the object description.
• The API rate limits aggressively; this Actor paces requests to stay under that limit, so very narrow filters (rare keyword plus a single state) can take longer to fill maxResults.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads the PNCP consulta API, a public endpoint the Brazilian federal government publishes for anyone to query without a login, and stores only procurement information the government already publishes for that purpose. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab; response time is usually under a day.