What is Licitacao.pro?
Licitacao.pro is an AI-powered service for Brazilian companies that participate in public procurement tenders (licitações). It monitors Brazil's national procurement portal (PNCP) and several connected platforms daily, reads full tender notice PDFs of up to around 100 pages, and tells subscribers which open calls are worth pursuing, which need a closer look, and which to skip. It also tracks required documents, deadline calendars, and certificate expiry dates so companies can prepare bids without missing paperwork.
Why Licitacao.pro works
Finding relevant public tenders in Brazil means checking multiple federal, state, and municipal portals daily and reading lengthy tender notice documents to judge fit, required qualifications, and document gaps. Licitacao.pro replaces that manual search and reading work by running automated daily sweeps across PNCP and its connected portals, analyzing each tender notice against a subscriber's sector and document profile, and sending a morning email with a plain verdict on each new call.
Licitacao.pro features
- Daily tender sweep. Searches across PNCP, which pulls tenders from compras.gov.br, BLL, Licitanet, BNC, Portal de Compras Publicas, Licitacoes-e, and state and municipal portals, filtered by up to 3 sectors and chosen states, so subscribers see only calls relevant to their business.
- Full tender notice reading. Reads the entire tender notice PDF (up to around 100 pages), pulling out what is being purchased, what qualifications are required, and what fines or risks appear, so subscribers can judge a call without reading the full document themselves.
- Fit verdict delivery. Compares each tender against the subscriber's company profile and returns one of three ratings (worth it, check the points, or not for you) in a daily email at 8h on working days, with a follow-up at 16h when a deadline falls the next day.
- Document status check. Reviews the required documents listed in a tender notice against what the subscriber already has on file and flags what is missing before the deadline, so companies can prepare without reviewing the notice from scratch.
- Deadline calendar sync. Adds public session and challenge deadline dates to a calendar with one click and sends a reminder the day before each deadline, reducing the risk of missing a bidding window.
- Winning price lookup. Finds similar items in past PNCP tenders from the last 90 days and shows what size of company and which state won and at what price, giving bidders a reference point before setting their own price.
Who Licitacao.pro is for
- Small and micro businesses (ME/EPP) in Brazil, including those that go after tenders reserved for them, but lack the staff to monitor and read notices across dozens of portals every day.
- Service and supply companies in Brazil that already bid on government contracts and want to cut the time spent filtering irrelevant notices and assembling documents before deadlines.
- Sole traders and consultants who sell professional services to Brazilian public bodies and need to know when a relevant call opens without hiring a dedicated procurement specialist.
- Companies new to public procurement in Brazil that want to understand whether a tender is a realistic fit before investing time in preparing a full bid.
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