Integrate with us and get more leads

Introduction

The TRA digital services marketplace is a platform that links buyers, such as governments and enterprises, with sellers offering tested and proven solutions.

By making the API extensible through the website, it enables the UAE’s largest companies to post project tenders directly from their procurement portal on the TRA digital services marketplace.

How do you connect?

to connect with API, please follow the below steps:

1. Go to this URL http://marketplace.gov.ae/add opportunity key
2. Fill out your company information
3. Once we receive your data, our team will review and approve the information
4. Upon approval, you will receive an email with the secret key and the API end-point
5. You can then use the API URL (https://marketplace.gov.ae/myapi/opportunitiesApi) along with the secret key to connect with us and post your project opportunities / tenders directly on the digital services marketplace website.

Authentication

In order to connect to the API, you must include the supplied secret key in your header.

The secret key will be emailed you by us once your registration information is approved

Below is a sample format of how you will receive the secret key in your email.

Endpoints

Error codes

Sample code

Sample http request:

POST /myapi/OpportunitiesApi/CreateOpportunity HTTP/1.1

Host: marketplace.gov.ae

secret_key: 5871bd537387d969e82889eab40d1b6f88b8b0120271e4dddd58280414af4a99

Content-Type: application/json

                        
    
        {
            "organizationName":"Marketplace",
            "firstName":"Michael",
            "lastName":  "Wilson",
            "emailAddress":  "m.w@marketplace.com",
            "contactNumber": "0505555659",
            "title":  "Supply and Implementation of Website Files Upload Scanning Solution",
            "category": "{FD872032-32B0-4105-AAC2-6F790CFB312D}",
            "description": "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an      unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.",
            "expiryDate":7,
            "hasProcurementLink": true,
            "procurementLink": "https://marketplace.gov.ae/",
            "agreeToTermsAndConditions": true
            
        }
                            
                        

Sample http response:

Sample C# code:

                        
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var files = GetFile();
            var model = new CreateOpportunity
            {
                OrganizationName = "Marketplace",
                FirstName = "Michael",
                LastName = "Wilson",
                AgreeToTermsAndConditions = true,
                Category = "{FD872032-32B0-4105-AAC2-6F790CFB312D}",
                ContactNumber = "0505555659",
                Description = "What is Lorem Ipsum?Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.",
                EmailAddress = "m.w@marketplace.com",
                ExpiryDate = 7,
                HasProcurementLink = true,
                ProcurementLink = "https://marketplace.gov.ae/",
                Title = "Supply and Implementation of Website Files Upload Scanning Solution",
                StringFiles = new OpportunityFiles[]
                {
                    files
                }
            };
            var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model);
            StringContent theContent = new StringContent(json.ToString(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
            using (var client = new HttpClient())
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("secret_key", "0c37d6ef2d7b22245df03c87d3ff1590106e967653f88549712a0a31bb56608f");
                var verify = client.PostAsync("http://marketplace.gov.ae/myapi/OpportunitiesApi/CreateOpportunity", theContent).Result;
                var response = verify.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
            }
        }
        public static OpportunityFiles GetFile()
        {
            string path = @"C:\sample.xlsx";
            // Calling the ReadAllBytes() function 
            byte[] readText = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
            var stringFile = Convert.ToBase64String(readText);
            return new OpportunityFiles { FileName = "sample.xlsx", FileString = stringFile };
        }