US Local Bid Portals Scraper

US Local Bid Portals Scraper: open solicitations from city, county and school feeds

Pick the procurement feeds you care about and get the open solicitations back as rows. Buyer, jurisdiction, title, solicitation type, posted and closing dates, days left, and the link to the official listing.

Nine feeds, not fifty states. Eight are single jurisdictions: Los Angeles, New York City, Baton Rouge, Montgomery County MD, Washington DC, Delaware, the Illinois Capital Development Board and the State University Construction Fund in New York. The ninth is nationwide, every US school district, school and library with a live FCC Form 470.

🏛️ What US Local Bid Portals Scraper does

Each feed is queried on its own terms. Your keywords and the still-open filter are pushed into the query, so the portal does the filtering and the run only pays for what comes back. A narrow keyword therefore costs less than a broad one, which is the opposite of how most search tools behave.

Then comes the part worth paying for. A procurement portal will happily answer HTTP 200 with something that is not a reply to the question: the whole unfiltered list when you asked for one keyword, a different dataset's columns after a schema change, a login page wearing a JSON content type. Every page is checked against the rows themselves before anything is billed. Ask for still-open solicitations and get back a page where more than a tenth have already closed, and that whole page is dropped with a written reason. Nothing from it is delivered and nothing is charged.

Named contacts are deliberately left out. Several of these datasets carry a buyer's name, direct phone number or email address. Those columns are never requested, so they never reach your dataset. The official portal link is on every row instead, and the contact is published there by the jurisdiction.

📥 What you give it

{
  "sources": ["la-city", "nyc", "erate-f470"],
  "keywords": ["security", "software"],
  "states": ["CA", "NY"],
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run:

{
  "source": "la-city",
  "jurisdiction": "City of Los Angeles, CA",
  "jurisdictionLevel": "city",
  "state": "CA",
  "solicitationId": "231996",
  "title": "RFB-IS-27200173 - 2708010VAtlassian Software Licenses Renewal-BRAND ONLY - Closing: 9/23/2026 12:00 PM",
  "summary": null,
  "solicitationType": "RFB - Request For Bid",
  "category": "Commodity",
  "status": "Open",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-15T15:30:09.000Z",
  "dueDate": "2026-09-23T19:00:00.000Z",
  "buyerDepartment": "Los Angeles County",
  "estimatedValue": null,
  "url": "https://www.rampla.org/s/opportunity-details?id=006Ql00000lZtjMIAS",
  "documentUrl": null,
  "daysUntilDue": 3,
  "portalUrl": "https://www.rampla.org/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T02:09:43.620Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

One bad portal never stops the others, and a diagnostic row never fails the run.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open US Local Bid Portals Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Under Portals to check, untick the feeds you do not want. 3. Put the words you bid on into Keywords, one per line. 4. Add two-letter codes to Limit to these states if you only work in some. 5. Set Maximum solicitations, click Start, then download as JSON, CSV or Excel.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.016 per solicitation. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per solicitation row delivered. Pages dropped because a portal ignored a filter, feeds skipped by your state list, the sample row and diagnostic rows are all free.

💡 What people use it for

• A standing keyword watch: schedule it daily on the two or three words you actually bid on, dedupe

on source plus solicitationId, and you see new work the day it posts.

• Feeding a bid/no-bid pipeline, using daysUntilDue to drop anything closing too soon to answer.
• Tracking which departments in a jurisdiction buy what you sell, by grouping on buyerDepartment.
• Covering the nationwide school and library feed for education contracts, which is the one feed here

that is not tied to a single city.

• Building a history of what a jurisdiction put out to tender, with onlyOpen turned off.

🚧 What it does not do

• Nine feeds, not national coverage. Eight jurisdictions plus the school and library feed. It

does not cover federal contracting.

• No named buyer contacts. Those columns are never requested. The portal link on each row is

where they are published.

• No bid documents. documentUrl is filled in only where a feed publishes one, which is rare.
• No award data, no bidder lists, no pricing. These are open solicitations only.
• Fields differ between feeds. A summary or an estimated value that exists in one jurisdiction

will be null in another, because that portal does not publish it.

• Keyword matching is what the portal supports, so it matches on title, category and department

text rather than inside attached documents.

• Rows are a snapshot. A solicitation can be amended, extended or cancelled, and scrapedAt

records when it was read.

🧭 Which procurement tool do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a login for any of these portals? No. All nine publish these feeds openly, and there is no key to apply for.

Why are keywords cheaper than no keywords? The filtering happens at the portal, so a narrow keyword returns fewer rows and you pay per row.

Can I get closed solicitations too? Yes, turn onlyOpen off. Useful for building a picture of what a jurisdiction tenders over a year.

What is the school-district feed? US schools, districts and libraries file an FCC Form 470 when they want bids for telecoms and internet services. It is nationwide, which is why the state filter matters on it.

Can I add my own city? Not through the input, but tell us which portal and we will look at it.

Is scraping these feeds legal? They are public procurement records published by the jurisdictions themselves for exactly this purpose. Named contact columns are left out on purpose. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a sensible starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID and which feed misbehaved. A SCHEMA_MISMATCH or PORTAL_MOVED row usually means that jurisdiction changed something, and that is worth telling us about.