/marchesbj/tenders/search

POST /api/marchesbj/tenders/search

Price: 5 credits

Search calls for tenders published by Beninese contracting authorities on the national public procurement portal by subject, buyer, buyer category, contract type, submission status, publication date and submission deadline, with the reference, buyer contact details, lot count, submission deadline, bid opening time and the notice document. Latest submission deadline first.

How to use it

Each row is one call for tenders. A tender whose deadline is today appears under both open and expired. reference matches tender_reference on marchesbj/awards/search and marchesbj/bid-openings/search rows, and id opens the tender through marchesbj/tenders.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1; max: 1000)
• keyword string nullable — Words to search for (examples: "pistes"; minLength: 1)
• buyer_id string nullable — Contracting authority id from marchesbj/buyers/search (examples: "498185")
• buyer_type string nullable — Contracting authority category (one of: "ADMPUB", "SAO", "IE", "CT", "DEP", "CSP", "CL", "SE", "PP")
• date_from string nullable — Earliest publication date (examples: "2026-03-01")
• date_to string nullable — Latest publication date (examples: "2026-03-31")
• status string — Submission status (default: "all"; one of: "all", "open", "expired")
• contract_type string nullable — Type of contract (one of: "goods", "services", "works", "consulting")
• deadline_from string nullable — Earliest submission deadline (examples: "2026-10-01")
• deadline_to string nullable — Latest submission deadline (examples: "2026-10-31")

Response

• @type string (default: "MarchesbjTender")
• id string required
• reference string nullable
• subject string nullable
• contract_type object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MarchesbjCode")
  • id string nullable
  • code string nullable
  • name string nullable
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MarchesbjBuyer")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • abbreviation string nullable
  • buyer_type object nullable
    • @type string (default: "MarchesbjCode")
    • id string nullable
    • code string nullable
    • name string nullable
  • email string nullable
  • phone string nullable
  • fax string nullable
  • website_url string nullable
  • manager_name string nullable
• created_date string nullable
• published_date string nullable
• provisional_award_published_date string nullable
• final_award_published_date string nullable
• submission_deadline_at integer nullable
• bid_opening_at integer nullable
• document_pickup_location string nullable
• is_divisible_into_lots boolean nullable
• lot_count integer nullable
• is_document_downloadable boolean nullable
• document_url string nullable
• document_name string 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.