Canada Government Contracts Search

Search Canadian federal procurement opportunities, award notices, and contract history in one run — without digging through CanadaBuys one notice at a time.

• ✅ Search 3 CanadaBuys procurement sources: open tenders, award notices, and contract history
• ✅ Pull solicitation numbers, agencies, suppliers, award amounts, posting dates, and closing dates
• ✅ Cover the procurement lifecycle from opportunity discovery to who won and what got awarded
• ✅ Pay only for what you use: $0.002 per record
• ✅ Free $5 Apify credit on signup = ~2,500 records to start with

If you sell to the Canadian federal government, track competitors, or analyze public-sector spending, the bottleneck is rarely “is the data public?” The bottleneck is the workflow: one page for active tenders, another for awards, another for older contract history, each with its own export friction. This Actor turns that into one query and one export you can actually work with.

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What you can do with it

1. Find open federal tenders in your category

If you are looking for active Canadian federal opportunities, the first job is simple: find open tenders quickly, before they disappear into someone else’s daily watchlist. This Actor searches CanadaBuys open tender notices so you can pull active solicitations by keyword, service type, or buyer signal.

To run this, all you fill in are two simple fields in the Apify input form at the top of this page:

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	cybersecurity
Max results per source	50

Click Start. Within seconds, the Actor searches CanadaBuys open notices and returns rows like these:

What you get back:

Title	Agency	Solicitation number	Posted date	Closing date
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Services	Shared Services Canada	EN578-260041	2026-04-12	2026-05-15
Managed Security Operations Support	Department of National Defence	W8486-260112	2026-04-08	2026-04-30
IT Security Consulting Services	Public Services and Procurement Canada	EP748-260087	2026-04-03	2026-05-02

This is the fast way to build a first-pass federal pipeline. Instead of browsing the CanadaBuys portal, opening individual notices, and manually copying the basics into a spreadsheet, you start with a structured export of the opportunities that match your niche.

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2. Track which suppliers are actually winning federal contracts

Finding opportunities is one part of the game. The other part is understanding who keeps winning. The award notices source in this Actor lets you search award-level procurement rows so you can see which suppliers won, from which departments, and for what amounts.

That makes it useful for competitive intelligence, account targeting, supplier research, and market-entry analysis.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	Deloitte
Max results per source	100

The Actor searches CanadaBuys award notices and returns rows like these:

What you get back:

Awardee	Agency	Title	Award amount	Award date
Deloitte LLP	Health Canada	Program management support services	CAD 4,200,000	2026-02-15
Deloitte LLP	Employment and Social Development Canada	Digital transformation advisory	CAD 1,850,000	2026-01-27
Deloitte LLP	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Risk and controls consulting	CAD 920,000	2025-12-03

This is how you answer practical questions fast: which firms are taking share, which departments buy from them repeatedly, and how big the awards usually are. You are not guessing from press releases. You are searching the award rows directly.

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3. Review contract history before you decide where to bid

Open tenders tell you what is available now. Contract history tells you what has been getting bought over time. That matters if you are trying to understand recurring demand, spending patterns, buyer concentration, or whether a niche is even worth entering.

The contract history source in this Actor gives you the longer-tail record set you need for that kind of analysis.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	artificial intelligence
Max results per source	200

The Actor searches CanadaBuys contract history and returns rows like these:

What you get back:

Title	Agency	Awardee	Award amount	Updated at
Artificial intelligence advisory services	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	XYZ ADVISORY INC.	CAD 650,000	2026-03-21
AI research support contract	National Research Council Canada	ABC DATA SYSTEMS LTD.	CAD 1,200,000	2025-11-12
Machine learning tooling procurement	Shared Services Canada	DEF TECHNOLOGY CORP.	CAD 890,000	2025-08-04

This is useful for market sizing, buyer mapping, and historical procurement research. Instead of relying only on currently open tenders, you can see where contracts have already been flowing and which buyers tend to return to the same supplier base.

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4. Build a weekly CanadaBuys watchlist for your niche

For most teams, the right workflow is not “search manually every day.” It is “run the same search every week and only look at the new matches.” This Actor is well suited for that because the input is simple and the returned fields are already structured enough to send into Sheets, Slack, email, or an internal pipeline.

If you care about one category, one service line, or one buying department, you can turn that into a recurring watchlist.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	translation services
Max results per source	50

The weekly result set might include:

What you get back:

Source	Title	Agency	Status signal
Tenders	Translation and interpretation services	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Open
Awards	Translation support services	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Awarded
History	Translation and language services	Department of Justice Canada	Historical

That gives you a compact procurement view without having to stitch together active notices, awards, and older records by hand every time.

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5. Use it from ChatGPT, Claude, or no-code automation

This Actor also works well as a procurement lookup layer inside an AI or automation workflow. Ask an assistant to find active federal tenders, recent awards, or historical CanadaBuys records for a keyword, and let the Actor do the search and export step behind the scenes.

For example, you can ask for:

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	IT services
Max results per source	20

The result is a structured set of CanadaBuys rows your assistant or automation can summarize, filter, or route:

What your assistant gets back:

Source	Title	Agency	Key date
Tenders	Managed IT Services	Shared Services Canada	Closing 2026-05-10
Awards	IT modernization support	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Awarded 2026-03-08
History	IT infrastructure services	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Updated 2026-02-11

This is especially useful when you want procurement search to be part of a larger workflow instead of a standalone portal session.

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How to use (no code required)

1. Click "Try for Free" at the top of this page
2. Enter one or more search terms, such as a service category, buyer name, supplier name, or industry keyword
3. Set how many rows you want back from each source
4. Click Start — the Actor searches all 3 CanadaBuys procurement sources in parallel
5. Open the Dataset tab and download the results as Excel, CSV, or JSON

That is the whole workflow — type, start, export. You do not need to separately browse open tenders, awards, and older contract records just to answer one procurement question.

The free $5 Apify credit you get on signup covers about 2,500 records at the current price, which is enough to run real procurement searches before paying anything.

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What you get back

Each returned row keeps the original procurement fields plus a small amount of source metadata so mixed exports are still easy to work with.

Typical fields include:

• Tender fields — title, agency, solicitation number, posted date, response deadline, description, contact information
• Award fields — awardee name, award amount, award date, awarding agency, solicitation number
• Contract history fields — older award records, contract descriptions, supplier names, updated timestamps
• Common procurement context — country, currency, source URL, location text
• Source metadata — _product_id, _source, _search_term, _collected_at

That gives you enough structure to do manual review, spreadsheet filtering, internal reporting, or AI-assisted summarization without having to clean the rows first.

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Coverage

This Actor currently queries 3 federal CanadaBuys procurement sources in parallel:

Source	What it covers
CanadaBuys tender notices	Open federal solicitations such as RFPs, RFQs, and related opportunity notices
CanadaBuys award notices	Award rows showing suppliers, award dates, and contract values
CanadaBuys contract history	Historical contract rows for longer-range procurement analysis

The practical benefit is lifecycle coverage. You can start with one keyword and see:

• what is currently open
• what has recently been awarded
• what has been bought historically

It is also important to be clear about the boundary:

• This Actor is centered on federal CanadaBuys data
• It is not a full provincial and municipal procurement universe
• It is not a bid-management platform or proposal-writing system

That honesty matters. This Actor is strongest as a federal procurement search and export layer, not as a promise that every Canadian public-sector buying workflow is covered.

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Pricing

Pay per record. No subscription.

Billing is simple: there is a small charge when a run starts, plus a per-record charge for each procurement row the Actor returns.

What triggers a charge	Cost
Actor start (each run)	$0.005
Each procurement record	$0.002

To make that more concrete:

Real-world cost examples:

Scenario	Records	Total cost
Quick tender scan for one keyword	20	$0.045
Tender + award review for a niche	100	$0.205
Weekly monitored search workflow	300	$0.605
Larger export for procurement research	1,000	$2.005

The cost scales linearly — more procurement rows means more spend, fewer rows means less. No annual contract, no seat minimum, no enterprise gate just to test whether this workflow is useful.

$5 free Apify credit = ~2,500 records at the current price, which is enough for real evaluation before you pay anything.

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Connect to your tools

You can use this Actor from no-code automations, AI assistants, or direct API workflows. The easiest mental model is simple: procurement keyword in, structured CanadaBuys rows out.

Platform	How to connect
Make.com	Search for Apify → choose Run Actor → Actor ID lentic_clockss/canada-government-contracts-search
n8n	Add the Apify node → Run Actor → same Actor ID
Zapier	Use the Apify integration and trigger a run with your procurement keywords
ChatGPT / Claude / Cursor	Connect via the Apify MCP endpoint so your assistant can call the Actor inside a chat
Python / custom apps	Use the Apify API or SDK and pull dataset items directly

The most common setup is usually one of these:

• Manual research: run once and filter the export in Excel
• Recurring watchlist: schedule the same keywords weekly and route results into Sheets, Slack, or email
• AI workflow: let an assistant look up federal opportunities or supplier awards and summarize the output for you

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When to use something else

This Actor is best when you need a federal CanadaBuys procurement search layer. If you already know you need a different region or a different procurement stack, a narrower tool may fit better.

If you need...	Use this instead
US federal contracts	US Government Contracts Search
Canadian business registrations	Canada Business Entity Search
Canadian building permits	Canada Building Permits Search
EU procurement and legal sources	EU Legal & Procurement Search

The point of this Actor is speed and lifecycle visibility across CanadaBuys, not every public procurement system in Canada.

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FAQ

Q: Where does this data come from?
A: From three federal CanadaBuys procurement sources: open tender notices, award notices, and contract history files.

Q: Does this cover all Canadian procurement?
A: No. This Actor is centered on federal CanadaBuys data. It is not a complete provincial and municipal procurement aggregator.

Q: Can I search more than one keyword in the same run?
A: Yes. The input accepts a list of searchTerms, and each term is searched across all 3 CanadaBuys sources.

Q: Can I use this for competitor research?
A: Yes. Award notices and contract history are especially useful for seeing which suppliers won, how often they show up, and what award amounts appear in the records.

Q: Is this only for open opportunities?
A: No. That is one part of it. The Actor also returns award notices and contract history so you can look beyond what is currently open.

Q: What is the fastest way to use this in practice?
A: Start with one keyword and a modest maxResultsPerSource, inspect which of the three sources gives you the most useful rows, then expand from there.

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Also Available

• Direct API: https://opendata.best/api/v1/data
• Postman Collection: Fork and test
• GitHub: Collection source files