# Public Procurement News for Research Teams

> Public Procurement News for Research Teams is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Fetches recent news articles about government technology procurement contracts and tenders, curated for research teams, with publisher links and publication dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-news-public-procurement-researchers?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/public-procurement-news-for-research-teams-b13ce689
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_N-A-UJQM565KiUnA822XO

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability public-procurement-news-for-research-teams-b13ce689 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Find me up to 8 recent news articles about government technology procurement contracts and tenders — I need publisher links and publication dates for my research team's report.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when a research team needs curated, dated news articles specifically about government technology procurement, contracts, and tenders — with publisher attribution. Prefer it over generic web search when you need structured, cost-effective news retrieval scoped to the public procurement domain without building your own scraper or news pipeline.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for narrow or unusual query terms
- Rate limit or payment failure if USDC payment is not processed
- max_results out of allowed range (1-10) returns validation error
- Stale or sparse results if recent procurement news is limited

## How this service works

Public procurement news for Research teams: Find recent reporting about government technology procurement contracts tenders. Focused for research teams, with publisher links and publication dates.

## Output

Returns a list of recent news articles (up to the requested max) about government technology procurement, each including the article title, publisher name or link, and publication date. Results are focused on public sector contracts and tenders.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "government technology procurement contracts tenders Research teams",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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