Canada Tenders — Federal + Quebec (Open Data)

Normalized Canadian government procurement tenders from official open-data sources only — no login required, no scraping, no ToS risk.

What this actor does

Fetches and normalizes tender/procurement notices from multiple Canadian jurisdictions into a single, consistent schema. Every field is sourced from official government open-data portals licensed under open government licences.

Covered jurisdictions

Jurisdiction	Source	Feed type	Typical volume	Update frequency
Federal	CanadaBuys	Open CSV (PSPC daily export)	~850 open tenders	Daily
Quebec (QC)	SEAO via Données Québec	OCDS JSON (weekly)	~5,000 releases/week	Weekly

Dropped sources and reasons

Portal	Reason dropped
BC Bid	Login-walled; redirects to session-required pages
Alberta Purchasing Connection (purchasing.alberta.ca)	Cloudflare-protected; no public API or open-data feed
SaskTenders	No accessible public JSON/API endpoint (ASP.NET session redirect)
Ontario Tenders (etenders.ca)	Session-required login system
Manitoba Tenders (gov.mb.ca/tenders/)	No structured open-data feed; HTML only
NS / NB / PEI / NL	No dedicated open-data procurement portal found

Federal (CanadaBuys) covers all federal departments across every province, which represents a significant majority of Canadian public procurement value. Quebec's SEAO is the largest provincial portal with a clean OCDS open-data feed.

Use cases

• Contractors finding bids — monitor for new tenders in your category and region; schedule the actor daily with postedAfter set to yesterday
• Bid-intelligence platforms — build searchable procurement databases covering federal + provincial
• AI procurement agents — feed tender notices to AI agents that match opportunities to vendor capabilities; the normalized schema makes this plug-and-play
• Vendor pipeline management — filter by keywords for your industry, track closingDate urgency
• Market research — analyze government spending categories, procurement methods, and buying departments

Input schema

Field	Type	Default	Description
jurisdictions	string[]	["federal","qc"]	Which jurisdictions to fetch. Valid: federal, qc
status	string	"open"	"open" = active tenders only; "all" = open + recently closed/awarded
postedAfter	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	null	Only include tenders published on or after this date
keywords	string	null	Comma-separated keyword filter on title + description (case-insensitive)
maxRecords	integer	500	Maximum total records across all jurisdictions

Output schema

Each record in the dataset:

{
  "jurisdiction": "Federal",
  "tenderId": "AR26SLHX_86026",
  "referenceNumber": "MX-443841357513",
  "solicitationNumber": "AR26SLHX_86026",
  "title": "Open Construction Source List for CFB Halifax",
  "org": "Defence Construction Canada - Atlantic Region",
  "category": "*CNST",
  "region": "Nova Scotia",
  "noticeType": null,
  "procurementMethod": "Competitive - Open bidding",
  "postedDate": "2026-01-23",
  "closingDate": "2029-03-31",
  "value": null,
  "status": "Open",
  "url": "https://www.merx.com/public/solicitations/3776296409/abstract?language=EN",
  "description": "Defence Construction Canada (DCC) is inviting contractors...",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-19T20:00:00.000Z",
  "raw": { "...": "trimmed source fields" }
}

Field notes

• value — estimated contract value if published at notice stage. CanadaBuys does not publish this at notice stage (null); SEAO includes it when available.
• description — truncated to 500 characters from source.
• raw — shallow key-value copy of source fields, long strings truncated to 400 chars, geometry/personal fields removed.
• status — Federal: "Open" / "Closed" / "Awarded". QC (SEAO/OCDS): "active" / "complete" / "cancelled".

Scheduling for daily-diff workflow

Set postedAfter to yesterday's date and schedule the actor daily. This gives you only new tenders added in the last 24 hours:

{
  "jurisdictions": ["federal", "qc"],
  "status": "open",
  "postedAfter": "2026-07-18",
  "maxRecords": 500
}

Legal / ToS

All data sourced from:

• Open Government Licence – Canada
• Licence ouverte – Québec

Both are permissive open licences allowing commercial use with attribution. No robots.txt violations; no login bypass; no personal data.

Data freshness

• CanadaBuys refreshes its open-CSV exports daily. The openTenderNotice CSV always reflects the current set of open tenders.
• SEAO publishes weekly OCDS JSON files. The actor automatically fetches the most recent weekly file from the Données Québec CKAN API.