Canada Federal Contract Awards Scraper
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 contract returneds
Awarded Canadian federal contracts over CA$10,000 from the Government of Canada Proactive Publication open data: vendor, value, department, dates, procedure.
Width of the contract-date window in days. By default it ends at the newest contract date published in the source (see 'Anchor the window to the newest published data'), not at today. Ignored when Date from is set, and ignored entirely when Reporting periods is used on its own.
Earliest contract date to return, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). Overrides Days back. The archive starts in the 1990s; a single run scans at most 3660 days.
Latest contract date to return, YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). Setting this switches the anchor off and uses your date literally.
Contracts are disclosed quarterly, up to 30 days after the quarter ends, so 'the last 30 days' measured from today is normally empty (on 2026-09-08 the newest contract date in the source was 2026-07-23). When this is on, the window ends at the newest contract date the datastore actually holds, so a default run always returns data. Turn it off to measure the window from today (or from Date to).
Fiscal quarters as published, YYYY-YYYY-Qn, for example 2026-2027-Q1 (April-June 2026). This selects whole quarterly releases including amendments to older contracts, which is what you want in order to monitor 'what was newly disclosed'. Setting this REPLACES the days-back window; add Date from / Date to as well to intersect the two.
Case-insensitive substrings matched against the department's code and its bilingual title: 'dnd-mdn', 'National Defence', 'Defence', 'Parks'. Terms are resolved against the official organisation register and pushed to the API as an exact owner_org filter, which is what makes single-department runs fast; a term the register does not know falls back to a local substring match. Empty = every department.
Case-insensitive substrings matched against the vendor name, for example 'Deloitte', 'IBM', 'Commissionnaires'. A contract is kept when any term matches. Empty = every vendor.
Case-insensitive terms matched against the English and French contract description, the departmental comments, the commodity code and the economic object code. A contract is kept when any term matches. Empty = no keyword filter.
Keep only contracts whose total value is at least this many Canadian dollars. Contracts with no published value are dropped when this is set. 0 = no minimum.
Stop after this many contracts. You are charged per contract delivered, so this is also the cost cap. Records come newest contract date first, so anything smaller than the window's volume drops the OLDEST contracts in it. Measured on 2026-09-08: the default anchored 30-day window held 1,060 contracts, a 30-day window inside a quarter 5,200-6,300, a whole quarter about 23,000 and a whole year 74,391. Size this to the window you ask for.
