NextBidTerms of use
1. What the Service is
The Service gives you programmatic access to a normalized index of public government solicitations collected from public procurement portals, plus derived text and metadata. The issuing agency is the sole source of truth for every solicitation. We do not warrant that any record, deadline, contact, amendment or document is complete, current or correct. Verify with the issuing agency before you rely on anything, and always before you bid.
2. Your key and your account
- Keys are issued to one person or one organisation and must not be shared, published or resold. You are responsible for every call made with your key.
- Trial keys are free, limited per day, and may be withdrawn at any time. Paid plans are described on the pricing page and in
/v1/pricing; the plan attached to your key at the time of a call governs that call. - We may suspend or revoke a key for abuse, non-payment, sharing, scraping, or any use that harms the Service or other users. Email keys@nextbid.us to recover or close a key.
3. Licence to the data
- You get a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the responses inside your own products, workflows and AI agents, including storing them for your own use.
- You may not redistribute the corpus or substantial parts of it, build a competing data feed from it, or sell or publish buyer contact information as a list. Buyer contacts are public records served in the context of their solicitation and must stay in that context.
- Fields labelled as AI summaries or classifications are derived aids, not facts. Attribute them as derived if you show them to others.
- No systematic bulk extraction outside the metered API (no scraping, no crawling of the site, no attempts to bypass keys, quotas or rate limits).
4. Acceptable use
Do not use the Service to break any law, to harass or spam buyers, to misrepresent yourself to an agency, or to test or probe the Service's security without written permission. Rate limits, quotas and concurrency caps are part of the Service; automated retries must honour Retry-After.
5. Fees and billing
Paid plans are billed as described at signup or in writing from us. Usage is metered per call; your current usage is always visible at /v1/usage. Fees are non-refundable except where the law says otherwise. We may change prices with 30 days' notice by email to the address on your key.
6. Availability and changes
The Service is provided as is. We aim for high availability but do not guarantee it, and we may change, throttle or discontinue endpoints, fields or plans. Breaking changes to documented endpoints get at least 30 days' notice where practical.
7. Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, NextBid is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages, or for lost bids, lost profits or lost data, arising from the Service or its data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the fees you paid us in the three months before the claim.
8. Privacy
How we handle your e-mail address, keys and usage records is described in the privacy notice.
9. General
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA. If a part of them is unenforceable the rest stands. We may update these terms; the effective date at the top changes when we do, and continued use after a change is acceptance. Questions: keys@nextbid.us.