Package: kwb.tenders 0.0.0.9000

Michael Rustler

kwb.tenders: R Package for Automated Monitoring of German Public Procurement Portals (Vergabeportale) for KWB-Relevant Tenders

Logs into public procurement portals (starting with Vergabemarktplatz Brandenburg), scrapes published tenders, scores them for relevance to KWB research topics (e.g. groundwater) and renders an overview report.

Authors:Michael Rustler [aut, cre], Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH [cph]

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kwb.tenders/json (API)

# Install 'kwb.tenders' in R:

install.packages('kwb.tenders', repos = c('https://kwb-r.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/kwb-r/kwb.tenders/issues

On CRAN:

3.18 score 3 scripts 35 exports 43 dependencies

Last updated from:635923b898. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	143
source / vignettes	OK	191
linux-release-x86_64	OK	143
macos-release-arm64	OK	86
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	91
windows-devel	OK	102
windows-release	OK	98
windows-oldrel	OK	96
wasm-release	OK	166

Exports:apply_title_excludes berlin_tenders check_tenders combine_tenders cosinex_tenders cpv_labels cpv_summary dedupe_tenders deutsche_evergabe_tenders dtvp_tenders enrich_with_details enrich_with_notice evergabe_online_tenders oeffentlichevergabe_tenders read_detail_cache read_notice_cache score_layered score_relevance screen_all_portals screen_portals servicebund_tenders ted_tenders tender_cpv_map tender_detail_text tender_excludes tender_keywords tender_notice_text vmp_bb_login vmp_bb_scrape_tenders vmp_bb_session vmp_bb_tenders vmp_nrw_tenders write_detail_cache write_notice_cache write_tender_report

Dependencies:AsioHeaders askpass chromote cli cpp11 curl dplyr fastmap generics glue httr jsonlite later lifecycle magrittr mime openssl openxlsx otel pdftools pillar pkgconfig processx promises ps qpdf R6 Rcpp rlang rvest selectr stringi stringr sys tibble tidyselect utf8 vctrs websocket withr xml2 yaml zip

tutorial

Rendered fromtutorial.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-06-15
Started: 2026-06-14

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Veto out-of-scope tenders (construction / building / maintenance)	apply_title_excludes
Vergabeplattform Berlin connector (HTTP, login-free)	berlin_tenders
Check Vergabemarktplatz Brandenburg for relevant tenders (single-portal report)	check_tenders
Combine scored tender tibbles from several portal connectors	combine_tenders
Scrape + score a cosinex Vergabemarktplatz instance (generic connector)	cosinex_tenders
CPV code -> German label lookup	cpv_labels
Summarise all CPV codes found across the tenders	cpv_summary
Merge duplicate tenders that appear on several portals	dedupe_tenders
Deutsche eVergabe (deutsche-evergabe.de) connector (chromote, login-free)	deutsche_evergabe_tenders
Deutsches Vergabeportal (DTVP) connector (cosinex)	dtvp_tenders
Enrich tenders with a detail-page relevance layer (rendered text + CPV codes)	enrich_with_details
Enrich tenders with a notice-PDF (Bekanntmachung) relevance layer	enrich_with_notice
e-Vergabe des Bundes (evergabe-online.de) connector (HTTP, login-free)	evergabe_online_tenders
Screen the Datenservice Oeffentlicher Einkauf (oeffentlichevergabe.de)	oeffentlichevergabe_tenders
Read / write the detail-screening cache	read_detail_cache write_detail_cache
Read / write the notice-screening cache	read_notice_cache write_notice_cache
Layered relevance scoring for portal connectors (title + long text + CPV)	score_layered
Score tenders for relevance to KWB research groups	score_relevance
Screen all configured portals into one combined report	screen_all_portals
Run several portal connectors, combine and write one report	screen_portals
service.bund.de tender connector (HTTP, login-free)	servicebund_tenders
Screen TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) for relevant tenders	ted_tenders
CPV-code to research-group mapping	tender_cpv_map
Fetch a tender detail page (rendered) and extract its text + CPV codes	tender_detail_text
Title-level exclusion (veto) terms	tender_excludes
KWB research-group keywords	tender_keywords
Fetch and extract the text of a tender's announcement (notice) PDF(s)	tender_notice_text
Log in to Vergabemarktplatz Brandenburg (optional)	vmp_bb_login
Search for and scrape tender results	vmp_bb_scrape_tenders
Start a chromote browser session	vmp_bb_session
Scrape + score Vergabemarktplatz Brandenburg (portal connector)	vmp_bb_tenders
Vergabemarktplatz NRW connector (cosinex)	vmp_nrw_tenders
Write a tender overview report (Excel + Markdown + HTML)	write_tender_report