/kenyappip/tenders/search

POST /api/kenyappip/tenders/search

Price: 20 credits

Search Kenyan public tenders on tenders.go.ke within one status bucket by keyword, tender reference, buyer, procurement method and category, financial year, publication and closing dates, addendum and AGPO reservation. Returns the full tender record per row.

How to use it

`status` is mandatory and picks the bucket: `active` is the few hundred tenders still accepting bids, `closed` is the whole archive including awarded ones, `terminated` the cancelled processes. Awards live in the `contracts` list of a closed tender, or search them directly with kenyappip/contracts/search, which is also where supplier and amount filters are. `published` and `closing` take a year, a month or a day, never a range. `query` matches substrings, so a partial reference such as `KeNHA/3002` works.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• status string required — Which tenders to list (one of: "active", "closed", "terminated")
• query string nullable — Words matched against the title, tender reference, ocid, buyer name, procurement method and category (examples: "road maintenance", "KeNHA/3002/2026"; minLength: 1)
• tender_ref string nullable — Part of the tender reference number (examples: "NG-CDF"; minLength: 1)
• buyer string nullable — Part of the procuring entity name (examples: "Kenya Urban Roads Authority"; minLength: 1)
• buyer_id integer nullable — Procuring entity id as returned by kenyappip/buyers/search (examples: 5390; min: 1)
• method string nullable — Procurement method (one of: "open_tender", "request_for_proposals", "framework_agreements", "restricted_tendering", "direct_procurement", "request_for_quotations", "expression_of_interest", "prequalification", "disposal_of_assets")
• category string nullable — Procurement category (one of: "goods", "works", "non_consultancy_services", "consultancy_services", "disposal_of_assets")
• financial_year string nullable — Kenyan financial year (one of: "2015/2016", "2016/2017", "2018/2019", "2019/2020", "2020/2021", "2021/2022", "2022/2023", "2023/2024", "2024/2025", "2025/2026", "2026/2027")
• published string nullable — Publication year, month or day (examples: "2026", "2026-09", "2026-09-15")
• closing string nullable — Closing year, month or day (examples: "2026-10", "2026-09-22")
• addendum_only boolean — Keep only tenders that have had an addendum issued (default: false)
• reserved_only boolean — Keep only tenders reserved for AGPO groups (youth, women, persons with disabilities) (default: false)
• count integer required — Max number of tenders to return (min: 1; max: 1000)

Response

• @type string (default: "KenyappipTender")
• id integer required
• ocid string nullable
• tender_ref string nullable
• status string required
• url string required
• venue string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• closing_at integer nullable
• opening_date string nullable
• evaluation_start_date string nullable
• evaluation_end_date string nullable
• tender_fee number nullable
• currency string (default: "KES")
• bid_security_percent number nullable
• bid_security_value number nullable
• validity_days integer nullable
• is_reserved boolean nullable
• is_terminated boolean nullable
• is_published boolean nullable
• has_addendum boolean nullable
• procurement_method string nullable
• procurement_method_code string nullable
• procurement_method_justification string nullable
• procurement_category string nullable
• procurement_category_code string nullable
• financial_year string nullable
• submission_methods array (default: [])
• agpo_groups array (default: [])
• bidder_categories array (default: [])
• framework_agreement_types array (default: [])
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "KenyappipBuyer")
  • id integer required
  • code string nullable
  • name string required
  • buyer_type string nullable
  • county string nullable
  • telephone string nullable
  • email string nullable
  • physical_address string nullable
  • postal_address string nullable
  • city string nullable
  • website string nullable
  • status string nullable
• branch string nullable
• documents array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KenyappipDocument")
  • id integer required
  • url string required
  • document_type string nullable
  • document_type_code string nullable
  • document_category string nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
• addenda array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KenyappipAddendum")
  • id integer required
  • description string nullable
  • addendum_date string nullable
  • new_closing_date string nullable
  • extends_closing_date boolean nullable
  • documents array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipDocument")
    • id integer required
    • url string required
    • document_type string nullable
    • document_type_code string nullable
    • document_category string nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
• bidders array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KenyappipBidder")
  • id integer required
  • name string nullable
  • bidder_number string nullable
  • supplier_id integer nullable
  • supplier object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipSupplier")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • business_registration_number string nullable
    • registration_status string nullable
    • business_type string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • physical_address string nullable
    • postal_address string nullable
    • town string nullable
    • county string nullable
    • registered_date string nullable
  • bid_amount number nullable
  • bid_security number nullable
  • technical_score number nullable
  • financial_score number nullable
  • final_score number nullable
  • preliminary_result string nullable
  • technical_result string nullable
  • financial_result string nullable
  • opening_date string nullable
  • is_shortlisted boolean nullable
• contracts array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KenyappipContract")
  • id integer required
  • contract_number string nullable
  • amount number nullable
  • currency string (default: "KES")
  • award_date string nullable
  • notification_of_award_date string nullable
  • evaluation_completion_date string nullable
  • sign_date string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • is_amended boolean nullable
  • is_terminated boolean nullable
  • is_published boolean nullable
  • award_reason_id integer nullable
  • agpo_group string nullable
  • agpo_certificate_number string nullable
  • financial_year string nullable
  • supplier object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipSupplier")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • business_registration_number string nullable
    • registration_status string nullable
    • business_type string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • physical_address string nullable
    • postal_address string nullable
    • town string nullable
    • county string nullable
    • registered_date string nullable
  • buyer object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipBuyer")
    • id integer required
    • code string nullable
    • name string required
    • buyer_type string nullable
    • county string nullable
    • telephone string nullable
    • email string nullable
    • physical_address string nullable
    • postal_address string nullable
    • city string nullable
    • website string nullable
    • status string nullable
  • tender object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipTenderSummary")
    • id integer required
    • ocid string nullable
    • tender_ref string nullable
    • status string nullable
    • procurement_method string nullable
    • procurement_category string nullable
    • published_at integer nullable
    • closing_at integer nullable
    • url string required
  • termination object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipTermination")
    • id integer required
    • reason string nullable
    • termination_date string nullable
    • contract_amount number nullable
    • currency string (default: "KES")
    • completed_percent number nullable
    • cost_of_termination number nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
  • variation object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipVariation")
    • id integer required
    • variation_type string nullable
    • variation_date string nullable
    • initial_amount number nullable
    • new_amount number nullable
    • currency string (default: "KES")
    • percentage_variance number nullable
    • initial_period integer nullable
    • new_period integer nullable
    • initial_end_date string nullable
    • new_end_date string nullable
    • submit_status string nullable
    • submit_date string nullable
    • review_status string nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
  • documents array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "KenyappipDocument")
    • id integer required
    • url string required
    • document_type string nullable
    • document_type_code string nullable
    • document_category string nullable
    • created_at integer nullable
  • created_at integer nullable
  • updated_at integer nullable
• created_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.