Government Tenders Feed – Canada, UK & EU (official open data)

Find open public-sector tenders, RFPs and bids from four official government portals in one clean, normalized table, filtered by your keywords, category codes, value and deadline. Run it on a daily schedule with "Only new since last run" and you get a bid-alert feed. You only pay for the new tenders.

Source	Coverage	Licence
🇨🇦 CanadaBuys	Government of Canada federal tenders (open notices file)	Open Government Licence – Canada
🇬🇧 Find a Tender	UK above-threshold public procurement (incl. Procurement Act 2023 notices)	Open Government Licence v3.0
🇬🇧 Contracts Finder	UK below-threshold opportunities	Open Government Licence v3.0
🇪🇺 TED	Contract notices from all EU/EEA countries	Free reuse (Decision 2011/833/EU)

The Actor uses only the official open-data APIs and files published by these governments. It does not scrape websites, log in, use proxies, or collect personal data.

Who it's for

• SMEs and consultancies bidding on government work (IT, cleaning, construction, facilities, consulting, and more)
• Bid writers and tender agencies watching several countries for clients
• Sales and market-intelligence teams tracking public-sector demand in their category
• AI agents and automations (n8n, Make, Zapier, Slack/email alerts) that need a consistent JSON schema across countries

What you get (one row per tender)

title, description, buyerName, buyerCountry, buyerRegion, publishedDate, closingDate, status, noticeType, procurementMethod, category (goods/services/works), classificationCodes (CPV / UNSPSC / GSIN), classificationDescriptions, estimatedValue, currency, deliveryRegions, matchedKeywords, url (official notice page), biddingPlatformUrl (Canada), suitableForSme (UK), source, licence, uid, fetchedAt.

Example:

{
  "source": "uk_find_a_tender",
  "title": "Control of Contractors Portal",
  "buyerName": "Transport for Wales Rail Limited",
  "buyerCountry": "GB",
  "closingDate": "2026-11-24T16:00:00.000Z",
  "estimatedValue": 430000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "category": "services",
  "classificationCodes": ["72000000"],
  "matchedKeywords": ["software"],
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103256-2026"
}

How to use

1. Enter keywords, e.g. software, cybersecurity, cleaning services, janitorial. A tender is kept if it matches any of them.
2. Pick the sources and how many days back to look (Published within days).
3. Optional: narrow with category code prefixes (e.g. CPV 72 for IT services, 90910000 for cleaning), minimum value, EU countries (DEU, FRA, IRL...), or exclude keywords.
4. For alerts, turn on Only new since last run, set Published within to 2, and add a daily Schedule in Apify Console. Connect the dataset to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per run plus $4 per 1,000 tenders returned ($0.004 each). A daily alert that returns 10 new tenders costs about $1.35/month. Set Max results per source or a max-charge limit to cap spend.

Tips

• TED keyword search runs server-side on notice titles (machine-translated into English) and descriptions, so English keywords also find German, French, Polish and other notices.
• UK notices can appear on both Find a Tender and Contracts Finder; deduplicate by title + buyerName if you need to.
• Canadian notices don't always publish an estimated value; UK and EU notices usually do.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. Every source is official open data published for reuse under the licence listed above, accessed through its public API or file. How fresh is the data? Each run queries the live APIs. CanadaBuys refreshes its open-data file several times a day. Can you add another country? Open an issue on the Actor page. AusTender, SAM.gov and the provincial portals are on the roadmap.