CanadaBuys Tender Notices – Canadian Federal Tenders (Open Data)

Turn the official CanadaBuys open-data files into clean, filterable tender records. CanadaBuys is published by Public Services and Procurement Canada. You can pull the tenders that are open right now, the notices published today, or a full fiscal-year history back to 2022-2023. Filter by keyword, goods, services or construction, UNSPSC or GSIN code, region, notice type, and publish or closing date. You can also schedule it as a "new notices and amendments only" bid alert.

• ✅ Official open data (Open Government Licence – Canada). No logins, no page scraping
• ✅ Privacy-safe output: buyer contact names, emails and phone numbers are never output, and emails and phone numbers inside descriptions are redacted. That makes the data safer to load into CRMs, AI pipelines or resold datasets
• ✅ English plus optional French title and description
• ✅ onlyNew mode returns only new notices and new amendments since the last run
• ✅ A working CanadaBuys link on every notice, including notices that came in from MERX or SAP Ariba

Who it's for

Canadian SMEs, contractors, consultants and IT and construction firms that bid on federal work, bid-alert and market-intelligence services, and analysts sizing federal demand by category, region or department.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
source	open (all open tenders, refreshed daily), new (published today, refreshed about every 2 hours), or a fiscal-year file 2022-2023 … 2026-2027	open
keywords	Title or description contains any of these	["software","cloud"] (prefill)
procurementCategories	GD goods, SRV services, CNST construction, SRVTGD services related to goods	all
unspscPrefixes / gsinPrefixes	Code prefixes, e.g. UNSPSC 43 (IT equipment) or 8111 (computer services)	all
regions	Region of delivery or opportunity contains, e.g. Alberta or National Capital Region	all
noticeTypes	e.g. Request for Proposal, Advance Contract Award Notice	all
publishedWithinDays, closingAfter	Date filters	none
includeFrench, includeDescription, descriptionMaxChars	Output shaping	EN only, description on, 2,000 characters
onlyNew	Scheduled alert mode	off
maxItems	Hard cap on results (and on cost)	200

Example: Alberta construction work, bilingual, from the 2025-26 archive

{ "source": "2025-2026", "regions": ["Alberta"], "procurementCategories": ["CNST"],
  "includeFrench": true, "maxItems": 500 }

Output (real record, live test on 29 Sep 2026, shortened)

{
  "referenceNumber": "cb-920-9790984",
  "amendmentNumber": "000",
  "solicitationNumber": "W8485-TBIPS2025-01",
  "title": "Software Developers",
  "status": "Open",
  "noticeType": "RFP against Supply Arrangement",
  "procurementMethod": "Competitive - Open bidding",
  "procurementCategory": ["Services"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-09-28",
  "closingDate": "2026-10-14T14:00:00",
  "unspsc": ["81111600", "81111704"],
  "unspscDescription": ["Computer programmers", "Database design"],
  "regionsOfDelivery": ["National Capital Region (NCR)", "Canada"],
  "contractingEntity": {"name": "Department of National Defence (DND)", "city": "Ottawa", "province": "Ontario", "country": "Canada"},
  "canadaBuysUrl": "https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/tender-notice/cb-920-9790984",
  "description": "NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT\nThis requirement is only open to the below list of pre-qualified suppliers …",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada."
}

The full field list is in .actor/dataset_schema.json, and more real rows are in sample_output.json. Closing dates are given exactly as CanadaBuys publishes them (Eastern time).

Bid-alert setup

Save a Task with your filters and onlyNew: true. Schedule it daily after about 14:00 UTC (the open file is rebuilt each morning, Eastern time), or every few hours with source: "new". Then connect Slack, email or Sheets on Run succeeded. The Actor remembers referenceNumber plus amendmentNumber, so each amendment shows up once. Its state lives in the named key-value store canadabuys-tenders-state.

Pricing

Pay per result. You're charged once for each notice written to the dataset. maxItems and Apify's maximum cost per run are both honoured, and the run stops cleanly at the cap.

Data source, licence and privacy

• Source: CanadaBuys tender notices, Public Services and Procurement Canada: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/6abd20d4-7a1c-4b38-baa2-9525d0bb2fd2 (CSV files on canadabuys.canada.ca/opendata/pub/).
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Attribution is included on every row.
• The OGL does not cover personal information, so this Actor drops the contact-name, email, phone, fax and contact-address columns and redacts emails and phone numbers found in free text. Business names (buyers and listed suppliers) are kept.
• Unofficial tool. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada, PSPC or CanadaBuys. Always check deadlines, amendments and bid documents on the official notice before you bid. Coverage is limited to what CanadaBuys publishes in these files (mostly federal).