JHamidun Tender Search (Russia)
Overview
Find Russian procurement tenders relevant to a product/company and return a curated, filtered shortlist (number, subject, region, deadline, price, link). Built from a real session searching AI/LLM tenders. The core difficulty is not search syntax - it is the geo-block on the official portal and the weak free-tier relevance on aggregators. This skill encodes the workarounds.
When to Use
- "найди тендеры / контракты / госзакупки / закупки под <продукт>"
- "поищи подходящие контракты для <компания>"
- "что закупают по <тема> на zakupki / rostender"
- Any procurement-discovery task on the Russian market via the browser.
Not for: writing the commercial proposal (КП) or outreach - that is kp-deck-factory / draft-outreach.
Key Facts (non-obvious - read first)
| Fact | Consequence |
|---|---|
zakupki.gov.ru geo-blocks foreign IPs -> ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT |
From a non-RU IP (any non-RU IP) the official portal will NOT load. Confirm IP first. |
| The MCP Playwright browser cannot install extensions at runtime | A VPN browser-extension cannot be added to the running automation browser. Extensions load only at launch (--load-extension, headed, persistent profile). |
| Most free VPN extensions give a foreign IP, not a Russian one | To open zakupki you need a server inside RU. Free Planet VPN / Browsec usually lack RU - won't unblock it. Need a RU-capable paid VPN or RU proxy. |
| rostender.info works from any IP and aggregates ALL RF tenders (7600+ sources, incl. zakupki data) | Default to rostender when no RU IP is available - coverage is effectively complete. |
| rostender free tier hides customer, НМЦК, documentation, and ЭТП/source link behind registration | Free scan gives subject + region + deadline + method only. To unlock fields -> 7-day demo, or zakupki.gov.ru via RU IP. |
| rostender search ranks by date, not relevance, and multi-word queries become fuzzy AND-matches | Use ONE broad phrase + filter client-side. Do not chain 3+ keywords. |
Эскалация при бот-стене / гео-блоке (patchright)
Обход по умолчанию — уходить с zakupki.gov.ru на rostender (см. Key Facts). Но если и
агрегатор начинает палить автоматизацию (Cloudflare-challenge, «Access denied», пустой
контент при headless-скрапе), либо появился RU-прокси и нужно всё-таки открыть саму
zakupki.gov.ru под анти-ботом — эскалируй на patchright (стелс-форк Playwright,
drop-in from patchright.sync_api import sync_playwright, channel="chrome" + persistent
context). Он скрывает navigator.webdriver и CDP-утечки, которые ловит защита порталов.
Полный рецепт и таблица «симптом бана → инструмент» — ../playwright-automation/references/stealth-scraping.md.
Workflow
1. Build the product profile -> query set
Translate the product into procurement language. For an AI/LLM product: subjects are доступ к нейросетям / большим языковым моделям, ИИ-ассистент, чат-бот, генеративный ИИ, неисключительные права на ПО. Keyword + OKPD2 sets are in references/playbook.md.
2. Check the IP / decide the route
Navigate to http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=query,country,countryCode,city (plain HTTP - ipapi.co is Cloudflare-walled).
- RU IP -> can use zakupki.gov.ru directly (best: proper OKPD2 search - see
references/playbook.md). - Foreign IP -> use rostender.info. Do not waste time on free VPN extensions (see Key Facts). Only pursue a VPN/proxy route if the user supplies a RU-capable one.
3. Search on rostender
- Go to
https://rostender.info/and type ONE broad phrase into the homepage search box (placeholder "Введите ключевые слова..."), submit. It redirects tohttps://rostender.info/extsearch?query=<hash>. - Broad recall (
искусственный интеллект) returns thousands sorted newest-first - relevant active ones cluster on pages 1-2. - Paginate by appending
&page=Nto the query URL (20 rows/page).
4. Extract + filter (client-side relevance)
Run the extractor (full version in references/playbook.md) via browser_evaluate. Critical detail: the tender title is a.tender-info__description - the first a[href*="/tender"] is the category, not the title. Filter with an include regex (доступ к, нейросет, LLM, генеративн, чат-бот, ассистент, неисключительн, обработк/аналитик...) AND an exclude regex (книг, учебник, повышение квалификации, сервер, оборудование, школьн...) to strip courses/hardware/books noise. Compute active from the Окончание date >= today.
5. Present the shortlist
Markdown table: № | предмет | регион | дедлайн | цена | ссылка, sorted by fit then deadline; separate active from just-closed (closed ones still inform the market). Note explicitly that customer/НМЦК/ЭТП are behind the registration wall on free tier, and that a "запрос цен / обоснование НМЦК" item = chance to submit a КП that shapes a future tender.
6. Offer next steps
Unlock fields via rostender 7-day demo (also enables saved keyword templates + Telegram alerts), or zakupki.gov.ru via RU IP for OKPD2 search; export the shortlist to Excel; or deepen the scan (more pages/queries).
References
references/playbook.md- read for: the fullbrowser_evaluateextractor (correct selectors + relevance regex), rostender pagination details, zakupki.gov.ru direct-search URL params, the AI/LLM keyword set, OKPD2 codes, and the list of alternative aggregators (synapsenet, tenderland, b2b-center, roseltorg, sberbank-ast).