Government Tenders API: EU (TED), Canada & Japan in One Schema

Get open public procurement notices from three government sources in one JSON schema, using official APIs and official open data only. No scraping of login pages and no blocked sites.

source	Coverage	Official source
ted	All EU and EEA public tenders above EU thresholds (27 member states plus EEA)	TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) Search API
canada	Canadian federal government tenders	CanadaBuys open data (updated daily)
japan	Japanese national ministries, prefectures, cities, universities and other public bodies	Government Procurement Information Portal (官公需情報ポータルサイト) Search API

Use it to feed tender alerts, B2G lead lists, CRM pipelines, market research or AI agents that need to answer "which governments are buying X right now?".

Output

One item per notice:

{
  "id": "ted:749460-2026",
  "source": "ted",
  "country": "ROU",
  "buyer": "Spitalul Clinic de Urgenta Bucuresti",
  "buyerCity": "Bucuresti",
  "title": "Romania – Magnetic resonance imaging equipment – FURNIZARE SISTEM MOBIL DE REZONANȚĂ MAGNETICĂ",
  "titleOriginal": "România – Echipament de imagistică cu rezonanţă magnetică – FURNIZARE SISTEM MOBIL DE REZONANȚĂ MAGNETICĂ",
  "category": "goods",
  "procedure": "open",
  "noticeType": "cn-standard",
  "classification": [{"scheme": "CPV", "code": "33113000"}],
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-29",
  "deadline": "2026-12-02",
  "deadlineSource": "api",
  "status": "open",
  "estimatedValue": 3445000.0,
  "currency": "RON",
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/749460-2026",
  "externalUrl": null,
  "description": "Obiectul contractului îl constituie furnizarea unui sistem mobil de rezonanță magnetică (IRM mobil cu câmp redus), desti…",
  "attribution": "© European Union, https://ted.europa.eu — reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T15:46:03+00:00"
}

Field	Meaning
country	Buyer country, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (DEU, CAN, JPN …)
title	English where the source provides it (TED, Canada). Japan titles are in Japanese
titleOriginal	Title in the buyer's language (TED), French (Canada)
category	goods, services, works or mixed
classification	CPV codes (TED), UNSPSC and GSIN codes (Canada)
deadline	Date bids are due (YYYY-MM-DD). For TED with several lots, the earliest lot deadline
deadlineSource	api = from the source's own field. text = read from the Japanese notice text. opening-date = Japanese bid opening date, used when no deadline is written
status	open (deadline today or later, UTC), closed, or unknown (no deadline found)
estimatedValue / currency	As published by the buyer (TED). Not provided by Canada or Japan
url	Notice page on the official portal. Japan links to the buyer's own notice document (often a PDF)
externalUrl	Canada only: the bidding system named in the notice (for example SAP Ariba or MERX)
description	First 1,000 characters of the notice description

Personal contact details (names, emails, phone numbers of contracting officers) are not included.

Input

Field	Default
sources	all	Any of ted, canada, japan
keywords	none	Title or description contains any keyword. Pushed down to the TED and Japan APIs
publishedWithinDays	2	0 = all currently open notices (up to the per-source limit)
countries	none	ISO alpha-3 buyer countries, for example DEU, FRA, POL
categories	none	goods, services, works
statuses	open, unknown	Add closed to include notices whose deadline has passed
maxItemsPerSource	300	Newest first. You pay per result

A default run takes about a minute. Schedule it daily with publishedWithinDays: 1 to get each day's new tenders.

Limitations

• Japan deadlines are read from the notice text, because the portal's API rarely fills its date fields. About half of Japanese notices get a deadline this way. The rest are unknown. Always check the original notice.
• Japan without keywords is fetched prefecture by prefecture, at most 1,000 notices each per run. Use publishedWithinDays of 7 or less.
• TED keyword search runs on the full notice text in every language. To find most notices, search in the buyer's language too (for example Software and logiciel).
• Not affiliated with the European Union, the Government of Canada or the Government of Japan.

Data sources and attribution

• TED: © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Reuse is authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, provided the source is acknowledged.
• CanadaBuys: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
• Japan: This Actor uses the search API of the Government Procurement Information Portal (官公需情報ポータルサイト), operated by the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency: https://www.kkj.go.jp/

Each item carries its own attribution field, so you can keep the credit when you pass the data on.

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日本語

EU 全体（TED）、カナダ連邦政府、日本の国・自治体の入札公告を、公式 API と公式オープンデータだけから同じ形式で取得します。日本の分は、官公需情報ポータルサイト（中小企業庁）の検索 API を利用しています（https://www.kkj.go.jp/）。締切は公告文から読み取っているため、申請の前に必ず元の公告を確認してください。