/procurett/tenders/search

POST /api/procurett/tenders/search

Price: 20 credits

Search the tender notices on ProcureTT, Trinidad and Tobago's public procurement board, by text, public body, reference, status, notice type and line of business. Returns one row per tender, newest first: id, reference, public body, status, submission deadline, description excerpt, lines of business and notice document link.

How to use it

Pass `id` to procurett/tenders for the full description, notice type, issue date, Level 4 business lines and deadline time. Filters combine with AND; `buyer_name` and `reference` match any part of the value.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Text to look for in any field of the notice (examples: "security"; minLength: 1)
• buyer_name string nullable — Part of the public body's name (examples: "TOBAGO"; minLength: 1)
• reference string nullable — Part of the tender reference number (examples: "SW023"; minLength: 1)
• status string nullable — Tender status (one of: "open", "closed", "cancelled")
• notice_type string nullable — Kind of notice (one of: "invitation_to_bid", "request_for_quotation", "expression_of_interest", "request_for_proposal_without_negotiation", "request_for_proposal_with_consecutive_negotiation", "request_for_proposal_with_dialogue", "request_for_information")
• business_line string nullable — UNSPSC class code of a line of business (examples: "80101600"; pattern: ^\d{8}$)
• count integer required — Max number of tenders to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "ProcurettTenderSummary")
• id string required
• reference string nullable
• buyer_name string nullable
• status string nullable
• submission_deadline_date string nullable
• description_excerpt string nullable
• business_lines array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "ProcurettBusinessLine")
  • code string nullable
  • name string nullable
• document_url string nullable
• country string (default: "TT")
• url string required

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.