Brazil Tenders Scraper: PNCP Licitações to Excel

Export Brazilian public tenders (licitações) from PNCP to Excel, CSV or JSON, with no API key. Since the new procurement law (Lei 14.133/2021), every federal, state and municipal buyer in Brazil must publish its procurements on the Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas (PNCP). This Actor reads them from PNCP's official open-data API and returns one clean row per notice: object (objeto), buyer and CNPJ, city and state, modality, estimated value in BRL, proposal opening and closing dates, the link to the bidding system and, optionally, the edital and annex download links. On a normal business day PNCP publishes ~300 Pregão Eletrônico, ~90 Concorrência Eletrônica and ~900 Dispensa notices (measured 2026-10-30). Schedule "only new" for daily licitação alerts.

Built by TenderFeed (apify.com/tenderfeed). No login, no browser, no HTML scraping.

What can you do with it?

• Licitação alerts: open Pregões and Concorrências in your segment, state or city, with the proposal deadline and the link to Compras.gov.br / the buyer's platform.
• Dispensa eletrônica opportunities: small-value direct purchases with a short proposal window, ideal for small suppliers (modalities: ["8"]).
• Market intelligence: who buys what, where and for how much, across 5,000+ municipalities, states and federal bodies.
• Bid consultancies and grant/tender writers: feed a CRM or spreadsheet with every new edital for your clients.
• AI agents: use it as an MCP tool (Apify MCP server) and ask "Which municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte opened software tenders this week?"

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["software", "sistema de gestão"],
  "modalities": ["6", "4"],
  "states": ["RN", "PB", "PE"],
  "publishedFrom": "7 days",
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "minValue": 50000,
  "includeDocuments": true,
  "maxResults": 0
}

• modalities (PNCP codes): 6 Pregão Eletrônico, 4 Concorrência Eletrônica, 8 Dispensa, 9 Inexigibilidade, 12 Credenciamento, 1 Leilão Eletrônico, 3 Concurso, 15 Chamada pública, 18 Pregão Eletrônico Internacional and more. Empty = 6, 4 and 8.
• keywords match the object and complementary information, accent-insensitive (licitacao = licitação).
• states (UF), cities, spheres (F federal, E state, M municipal, D district), buyerName, buyerCnpj narrow the buyer.
• minValue / maxValue (BRL) apply to the estimated value (valorTotalEstimado).
• onlyOpen keeps active notices whose proposal deadline is still in the future.
• Default run: last 2 days, newest day first, 50 results.

Output example

Real row from a live run on 2026-11-03:

{
  "source": "br-pncp",
  "sourceId": "08241788000130-1-000123/2026",
  "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/08241788000130/2026/123",
  "title": "Contratação de empresa especializada para prestação de serviço continuado de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação (TIC), ... Software as a Service (SaaS) ...",
  "noticeType": "Edital",
  "status": "active",
  "procedureType": "Pregão - Eletrônico",
  "buyerName": "RIO GRANDE DO NORTE SECRETARIA DA ADMINISTRACAO",
  "buyerCnpj": "08241788000130",
  "buyerCity": "Natal",
  "state": "RN",
  "sphere": "state",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-29T13:46:13",
  "proposalsOpenAt": "2026-11-03T08:00:00",
  "deadlineAt": "2026-11-18T10:00:00",
  "estimatedValue": 3020500.2,
  "currency": "BRL",
  "submissionUrl": "https://cnetmobile.estaleiro.serpro.gov.br/comprasnet-web/public/compras/acompanhamento-compra?compra=92553805002322026",
  "legalBasis": "Lei 14.133/2021, Art. 28, I – pregão: ...",
  "disputeMode": "Aberto",
  "priceRegistration": false
}

Other fields: description (object + complementary information), buyerUnit, buyerUnitCode, power, modalityId, processNumber, purchaseNumber, purchaseYear, pncpStatus, awardedValue (homologated value, when published), documentsUrl (PNCP files API) and, with includeDocuments, documents (title, type, download URL of the edital, termo de referência and annexes). Times are Brasília local time.

Field coverage (live test, default input, 50 notices published 2026-11-03)

Title, buyer, city, state, modality, published date, proposal deadline, estimated value, PNCP link: 50/50. Bidding-system link: 49/50.

The data follows the same normalized schema as our other TenderFeed Actors (EU TED, SAM.gov, UK, Grants.gov, USAspending).

Daily alerts ("only new" monitoring mode)

Turn on onlyNew, set a monitoringId (for example "rn-software") and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns, and charges for, only notices you have not received yet. In our test, a second identical run skipped the 5 notices delivered by the first and returned 5 different ones.

Sample output (real run)

One row from a run on 6 November 2026 (core columns only; every row also has description, status, procedureType, documentsUrl and more). Contact values are masked here. Since schema 1.2 every row also carries the cross-source columns country, deadline, valueAmount, valueCurrency and cpvOrNaics next to the original ones (buyerCountry, deadlineAt, estimatedValue, currency, cpvCodes/naicsCodes), which are unchanged.

{
  "title": "Contratação de empresa especializada na prestação de serviços de tecnologia da informação para a concessão de direito de uso (locação) de...",
  "source": "br-pncp",
  "country": "BR",
  "noticeType": "Edital",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T08:09:12",
  "deadline": "2026-11-23T08:59:00",
  "buyerName": "MUNICIPIO DE VARZEA PAULISTA",
  "valueAmount": 5085361.66,
  "valueCurrency": "BRL",
  "cpvOrNaics": null,
  "setAside": null,
  "url": "https://pncp.gov.br/app/editais/45780087000103/2026/129",
  "buyerContactName": null,
  "buyerContactEmail": null,
  "buyerContactPhone": null
}

Limits and notes

• Data source: PNCP (Portal Nacional de Contratações Públicas) public API.
• Access: No login or API key.
• Delays and gaps: Notices are in Portuguese. The PNCP API can be slow or return intermittent errors; the Actor retries. Estimated value is as declared by the buyer (BRL).
• Contacts: No buyer contact persons are extracted.
• Fields the portal does not publish stay null; nothing is guessed or filled in.

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for the notices saved to the dataset (see the price on this page), plus Apify's small run-start fee. The default run takes a few seconds.

More TenderFeed sources

Same output schema across all sources, so you can merge results in one sheet or CRM:

• EU TED tenders
• SAM.gov federal contract opportunities
• Grants.gov US federal grants
• USAspending federal contract awards
• UK Find a Tender + Contracts Finder
• France BOAMP appels d'offres
• Switzerland SIMAP tenders
• World Bank procurement notices & awards
• Poland BZP e-Zamówienia tenders
• Ukraine Prozorro tenders
• AusTender Australian government contracts
• EU Funding & Tenders Portal grants and calls
• CanadaBuys tenders and awards
• Germany public tenders (Ausschreibungen)
• NYC City Record bids & awards
• Colombia SECOP II licitaciones
• Netherlands TenderNed aanbestedingen

FAQ

Is this official data? Yes. It comes from the PNCP open-data API (pncp.gov.br/api/consulta), maintained by the Brazilian federal government under Lei 14.133/2021 (art. 174). No personal contact data is published there.

Where do I submit a proposal? On the bidding system shown in submissionUrl (Compras.gov.br or the buyer's own platform). PNCP itself is the publication portal.

Does it cover old notices under Lei 8.666? Only those the buyers published on PNCP. Coverage is complete for Lei 14.133 procurements.

Something missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. TenderFeed answers within one business day.