Japan Government Tenders & Awards

Structured English-schema data on Japanese government tenders — including who won and at what price.

This Actor queries the official cross-government procurement portal of Japan (kkj.go.jp, operated by the SME Agency) and returns tender notices and award results from national ministries, prefectures, municipalities, and public agencies as clean, English-field JSON. Think of it as a SAM.gov or TED equivalent for Japan — one API call instead of a Japanese-only XML portal.

Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the SME Agency (中小企業庁) or the Government of Japan. Data is retrieved via the portal's public search API; every record links back to the official source.

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Who is this for?

• Sales & BD teams entering the Japanese market — find public-sector opportunities in your category, and see which competitors won similar contracts and at what price, without reading Japanese.
• Procurement intelligence & research firms — feed Japanese tender and award data into your own database with a stable schema, explicit sourcing, and a license trail on every record.
• AI / data engineers — skip the Japanese XML parsing. Get LLM-ready JSON for tender-alert bots, RAG pipelines, and market dashboards. Works with Apify schedules, webhooks, and the Apify API out of the box.

If you already work with SAM.gov, TED (EU), or India CPPP data, the field layout will feel familiar. This is the missing piece for Japan procurement data.

What makes it different

1. Awards, not just notices. Most Japan tender tools stop at announcements. This Actor also returns award records — awardee name and award amount in JPY — the data you need for competitor analysis and pricing.
2. Notice-to-award linkage. Tender notices and their award results share identifiers, so you can follow a procurement from publication to contract in one dataset.
3. English-first schema. Field names, organization levels, and procurement categories are in English. Original Japanese text (titles, organization names) is preserved untouched, so nothing is lost in translation.

Sample output (dataset item)

{
  "noticeId": "kkj-2026-XXXXXXX",
  "noticeType": "award",
  "title": "庁舎ネットワーク機器更新一式",
  "organization": {
    "name": "国土交通省",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "prefecture": { "code": "13", "name": "Tokyo" },
  "publishedDate": "2026-07-14",
  "deadline": null,
  "procurementCategory": {
    "code": "71",
    "ja": "情報処理関連",
    "en": "IT & data processing services"
  },
  "awardee": { "name": "○○株式会社" },
  "awardAmountJpy": 24750000,
  "awardDate": "2026-07-10",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.kkj.go.jp/...",
  "source": "官公需情報ポータルサイト（中小企業庁）",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.kkj.go.jp/",
  "license": "kkj.go.jp API terms (attribution + link required)",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-25T09:12:44Z"
}

Tender-notice records (noticeType: "tender_notice") carry deadline instead of the award fields. A raw object preserves the original API response fields for anyone who needs the untouched Japanese source data.

Input example

{
  "keyword": "ネットワーク",
  "noticeType": "both",
  "organizationLevel": ["national", "prefecture"],
  "prefecture": "13",
  "dateFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-08-25",
  "maxItems": 500
}

• keyword — search term (Japanese works best today; see FAQ).
• noticeType — "tender", "award", or "both" (default "both").
• organizationLevel — filter by national / prefecture / municipal issuers.
• prefecture — JIS prefecture code, or national-level only.
• dateFrom / dateTo — publication date window (ISO 8601).
• maxItems — default 100, max 10,000. The Actor never does an unbounded full crawl by default.

Pricing

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 records (+ $0.05 per Actor start). No subscription. A monthly pull of ~500 IT-related notices and awards costs about $1.55. Compare that with tender-alert subscriptions that run $50–several hundred per month whether you use them or not.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the public search API of the 官公需情報ポータルサイト (kkj.go.jp), the cross-government procurement information portal operated by Japan's SME Agency. It aggregates tender notices and award information published by national ministries, incorporated agencies, prefectures, and municipalities. Every record includes source, sourceUrl, license, and retrievedAt fields, and detailUrl always points to the official portal or issuing organization. This is a mandatory part of the portal's API terms — and it makes the data audit-friendly for your own compliance.

Is this an official government service? No. This is an unofficial tool, built and maintained independently. It is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the SME Agency or any Japanese government body. This Actor uses the portal's public API and displays the required attribution and link.

How complete is the coverage? The Actor returns what the kkj.go.jp portal publishes through its API. The portal aggregates a large share of public-sector notices across government levels, but not every Japanese public contract appears there (some organizations publish only on their own sites). We deliberately do not claim "all Japanese tenders" — no source can honestly claim that.

How fresh is the data? The portal receives new notices continuously on business days. Run the Actor on an Apify schedule (e.g., daily) to keep a rolling window of new notices and awards.

Do I need to read Japanese? The schema, categories, and organization levels are English. Titles and organization names remain in original Japanese — deliberately, so records stay verifiable against the official source. Piping titles through a translation step (or an LLM) works well; the structure is already done for you.

What about rate limits and server load? The Actor throttles itself (~1 request / 1.2 s), respects the portal's terms prohibiting sustained bulk access, and backs off exponentially on HTTP 429. It does not attempt to evade rate limiting via proxy rotation. This keeps the tool sustainable and the source healthy. If you need very large historical pulls, split them across runs.

Can I redistribute the data? The portal's terms require attribution and a link when its API is used — the Actor embeds both in every record. Review the portal's API terms (linked from each record) for your specific use case before republishing; this README is not legal advice.

Search terms this Actor answers

Japan government tenders · Japan government procurement in English · Japan tender API · Japan procurement data · Japanese public sector bids · government contract awards Japan · SAM.gov equivalent for Japan · TED equivalent Japan · kkj.go.jp API English

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Data source: 官公需情報ポータルサイト（中小企業庁）— https://www.kkj.go.jp/ . This Actor uses the portal's public search API and is required to state so and link back; we consider that a feature, not fine print.