# Mississippi Government Bids & Procurement Tracker (`toby_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed`) Actor Search live Mississippi government bids, RFPs and contract opportunities, and track what changes over time: deadline extensions, new awards, and posted addenda. Clean JSON + MCP tools for AI agents. Buyer organisation only, no PII. Free during early access. - **URL**: https://apify.com/toby\_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed.md - **Developed by:** [Toby Richmond](https://apify.com/toby_richmond) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, MCP servers - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 50.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Mississippi Government Bids & Procurement Tracker — with Change Tracking **Search live Mississippi government bids, RFPs and contract opportunities — and get the one thing the state portal won't push you: what CHANGED.** Deadline extensions, new awards, and posted addenda, as a structured API and MCP tools for agents. > Looking for: Mississippi government bids API · Mississippi procurement / RFP data · > state government contract opportunities · solicitation tracking · bid deadline alerts · > public sector tender data. This Actor delivers all of it as clean JSON. ### The problem this solves The official Mississippi (DFA) bid portal shows you today's open solicitations — but it **doesn't tell you when a deadline moves, when a bid is awarded, or when an addendum drops** on a contract you're watching. If you sell to government, missing a deadline change or a recompete is lost revenue. This feed **tracks every solicitation over time** and exposes those change events directly. ### What you can do - **Search Mississippi government bids** by category, keyword, status, and dates. - **Get a full solicitation** by ID, including document links and the official notice URL. - **Track what changed** — deadline changes, new awards (Open → Awarded), added documents — grouped per solicitation. *This is the differentiator; free portals don't surface it.* ### MCP tools (for AI agents / Claude / agent builders) This Actor exposes Model Context Protocol tools, so an agent can query procurement data directly: - `search_opportunities(category, keyword, status, posted_after, due_after, due_before)` - `get_opportunity(solicitation_id)` - `list_recent_changes(since)` — the change feed ### Example input ```json { "tool": "search_opportunities", "status": "Open", "category": "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "limit": 5 } ```` ### Example output (one record) ```json { "solicitation_id": "1601-26-R-RFIN-00066", "title": "Sole Source No. 4751 ... SPIRIT Management Information System ...", "agency": "Mississippi Department of Health", "category": "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)", "status": "Open", "due_date": "2026-06-30T15:00:00-05:00", "due_timezone": "America/Chicago", "document_links": [{ "label": "Solicitation PDF", "url": "https://.../SYN_BID_FORM_....PDF" }], "source_url": "https://www.ms.gov/dfa/contract_bid_search/Bid/Details/45668" } ``` ### Example change event (`list_recent_changes`) ```json { "event": "deadline_changed", "solicitation_id": "1601-26-R-RFIN-00066", "old_due_date": "2026-06-30T15:00:00-05:00", "new_due_date": "2026-07-07T15:00:00-05:00" } ``` ### Data schema (per solicitation) `solicitation_id`, `title`, `agency` (buying organisation), `category`, `bid_type`, `posted_date` / `due_date` (ISO-8601 with explicit Central timezone + closing time), `status` (Open / Closed / Awarded / Archived), `document_links`, `source` / `source_url`. **`estimated_value` is not published by this source** (returned `null`, never a filterable field). **No personal data.** Buyer contact names/emails/phones in the source are stripped at ingestion and re-checked at storage; only solicitation data and the buying **organisation name** are served. ### Coverage & freshness Official **Mississippi DFA Contract Bid Search** (`ms.gov`) — all state agencies, universities and participating local entities. Refreshed daily; each record carries `first_seen` / `last_seen`. Single-state by design (a focused, reliable feed). ### Access **Free during early access (beta).** Usage limits or pricing may be introduced later, with notice. (Not "free forever," just free for now.) ### Reliability A built-in monitor watches for upstream breakage (renamed fields, response-shape changes, record-count crashes, new status values, or PII drifting toward the output). If something looks wrong, **it stops serving and returns "temporarily unavailable" rather than hand you stale or wrong data.** *** *Keywords: Mississippi government bids, MS procurement, state RFP, solicitations, government contract opportunities, bid alerts, deadline tracking, public sector tenders, SLED procurement API.* # Actor input Schema ## `tool` (type: `string`): Which operation to run: search opportunities, get one by id, or list recent changes. ## `status` (type: `string`): Solicitation status to filter by (search\_opportunities). ## `category` (type: `string`): Procurement category substring, e.g. 'INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY'. ## `keyword` (type: `string`): Keyword to match in the solicitation title or category. ## `due_after` (type: `string`): Only solicitations with a due date on/after this date. ## `due_before` (type: `string`): Only solicitations with a due date on/before this date. ## `solicitation_id` (type: `string`): Bid number to fetch (used by get\_opportunity). ## `since` (type: `string`): For list\_recent\_changes: only changes at/after this timestamp. ## `limit` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of records to return. ## Actor input object example ```json { "tool": "search_opportunities", "status": "Open", "limit": 50 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `solicitations` (type: `string`): The returned records (solicitations, or change events for list\_recent\_changes). # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("toby_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("toby_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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 toby_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=toby_richmond/mississippi-procurement-feed", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Mississippi Government Bids & Procurement Tracker", "description": "Search live Mississippi government bids, RFPs and contract opportunities, and track what changes over time: deadline extensions, new awards, and posted addenda. Clean JSON + MCP tools for AI agents. Buyer organisation only, no PII. Free during early access.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "YKcLFE46ycBcN5KZz" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/toby_richmond~mississippi-procurement-feed/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-toby_richmond-mississippi-procurement-feed", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/toby_richmond~mississippi-procurement-feed/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-toby_richmond-mississippi-procurement-feed", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/toby_richmond~mississippi-procurement-feed/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-toby_richmond-mississippi-procurement-feed", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "tool" ], "properties": { "tool": { "title": "Tool", "enum": [ "search_opportunities", "get_opportunity", "list_recent_changes" ], "type": "string", "description": "Which operation to run: search opportunities, get one by id, or list recent changes.", "default": "search_opportunities" }, "status": { "title": "Status", "enum": [ "Open", "Closed", "Awarded", "Archived" ], "type": "string", "description": "Solicitation status to filter by (search_opportunities).", "default": "Open" }, "category": { "title": "Category contains", "type": "string", "description": "Procurement category substring, e.g. 'INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY'." }, "keyword": { "title": "Keyword", "type": "string", "description": "Keyword to match in the solicitation title or category." }, "due_after": { "title": "Due after (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "Only solicitations with a due date on/after this date." }, "due_before": { "title": "Due before (YYYY-MM-DD)", "type": "string", "description": "Only solicitations with a due date on/before this date." }, "solicitation_id": { "title": "Solicitation ID", "type": "string", "description": "Bid number to fetch (used by get_opportunity)." }, "since": { "title": "Changes since (ISO-8601)", "type": "string", "description": "For list_recent_changes: only changes at/after this timestamp." }, "limit": { "title": "Max results", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of records to return.", "default": 50 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { 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