BidPelican lists only solicitations pulled from the official public sources below. Every listing carries its source's name, a link to the official posting, and the time it was last verified. An expired, cancelled, or unreachable listing is purged the same day — the board never shows a stale or invented contract.
API is real and free, but it requires an API key. Pending: SAM.gov account registration for King Bull Ventures LLC + entity/system key request (master brief Week 1 paperwork). No federal listings are shown until the key is in hand — we never scrape the SAM web UI.
Verified Oct 25, 2026: VBS is the State of Florida's official repository for competitive solicitations, now fronted by the MyFloridaMarketPlace Vendor Information Portal (a JavaScript app). Adapter pending an API-discovery pass against the new portal; legacy VBS URLs return 404. No state listings are shown until the adapter verifies live.
Verified live Oct 25, 2026: the county's StratProc app publishes its current solicitations as a public JSON list (solicitation number, type, title, opening date, posted date) and a public detail page per solicitation. This is BidPelican's launch source — the county's heaviest local volume for our trades.
Verified Oct 25, 2026: Broward County has moved solicitations to its new BPRO system and instructs vendors to register in BPRO to view, download, and respond. The BPRO host did not respond from our build environment during launch verification, and per the registry rule we never scrape behind a login in v1. Adapter ships only after the public surface verifies live; until then the board links out to BPRO and says so.
District procurement site confirmed as the portal of record (solicitations also run through Onvia DemandStar/Euna). The host did not respond from our build environment during launch verification on Oct 25, 2026, so the adapter is pending a live verification pass. No M-DCPS listings are shown until it passes.
District bid documents confirm solicitations run through Euna DemandStar with district postings public. The district's procurement pages were restructured (legacy page IDs return 404), so the adapter is pending re-verification of the live board URL. No BCPS listings are shown until it passes.
Phase-1 city. The city's public site applies bot protection to automated reads (HTTP 403 from our build environment on Oct 25, 2026); per registry rules the adapter waits for a verified access method rather than circumventing anything.
Phase-1 city. City solicitations run on Periscope BidSync Source; the city's public pages returned HTTP 403 to automated reads during launch verification on Oct 25, 2026. Adapter pending a verified public access path.
Bonus source per the master brief: include only if a public solicitations board verifies at build. Not yet verified — deferred in writing, per brief §8.
The patrol re-verifies open listings twice a day. Past the deadline, cancelled at the source, or vanished from the official list — the listing leaves the board the same day and sits in the recently-closed archive, marked CLOSED, for 14 days. If a source goes down, the digest says so by name rather than quietly recycling old rows.
We ingest what agencies publish for the public — never anything behind someone else's login, and listing titles are carried verbatim from the source. Estimated values appear only when the source itself publishes one. The official posting is always the truth; BidPelican is a finding aid. BidPelican is a private service operated by King Bull Ventures LLC. It is not affiliated with SAM.gov, the State of Florida, Miami-Dade County, Broward County, or any government agency.