UK, Australia & Canada Government Tenders Feed (OCDS)

UK, Australia & Canada Government Tenders Feed (OCDS, no API key)

One clean, normalized OCDS-style feed of public-sector tenders, contract awards and contracts from four official government sources:

Country	Source	What you get	Licence
GB	UK Find a Tender (FTS) OCDS API	above-threshold tenders, awards (with winning suppliers), pipeline/planning notices	OGL v3
GB	UK Contracts Finder OCDS API	below-threshold opportunities and awards	OGL v3
AU	AusTender OCDS API	contract notices (awarded Commonwealth contracts) with supplier and value	CC BY 3.0 AU
CA	CanadaBuys open data	new and open federal tender notices with UNSPSC codes and closing dates	OGL-Canada

Every record has the same fields whatever the source: country, source, notice ID / OCID, stage (tender / award / contract / planning), title, trimmed description, buyer, CPV and UNSPSC codes, value + currency, deadline, published date, procurement method, supplier organisations (awards), region, contract period and a link to the official notice.

Who it's for

• Bid teams and B2G sales: daily new opportunities in your CPV/UNSPSC codes across three markets in one run.
• Competitive intelligence: who is winning which public contracts, for how much (UK awards, AusTender contracts).
• Bid-writing consultancies, market researchers, govtech investors, data teams and AI agents: clean JSON, stable IDs, official links.

Quick start

1. Click Start with {}: 40 of the newest notices, evenly from all four sources.
2. IT services tenders in all three countries: {"stages": ["tender"], "codePrefixes": ["72", "4321", "8111"], "maxItems": 100}
3. UK construction awards over £1M: {"countries": ["GB"], "stages": ["award"], "codePrefixes": ["45"], "minValue": 1000000, "maxItems": 200}
4. Australian contracts this week: {"countries": ["AU"], "daysBack": 7, "maxItems": 1000}
5. Keyword alerts: {"keywords": ["cyber", "penetration testing", "SOC"], "daysBack": 2, "maxItems": 200}
6. Canadian open tenders posted in the last 14 days: {"countries": ["CA"], "daysBack": 14, "maxItems": 500}

Schedule it daily with daysBack: 1 (or 2 for overlap) and your filters to get a bid alert feed.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
countries	all	GB (or UK), AU, CA
sources	all	uk-find-a-tender, uk-contracts-finder, au-austender, ca-canadabuys
stages	tender, award, contract	add planning for UK pipeline / market engagement notices
codePrefixes	-	CPV (UK) or UNSPSC (AU/CA) prefixes, e.g. 72, 45, 4321
keywords	-	any keyword in title, description, buyer, supplier or code text
minValue / includeNoValue	- / false	in the notice's own currency, no FX
daysBack	7	window ending now (UTC); results are newest first
maxItems	40	split evenly across sources, short sources topped up by the others
descriptionMaxChars	500
maxPagesPerSource, timeBudgetSeconds	30, 240	safety caps for narrow filters on long windows

Output example

{
  "country": "GB", "source": "uk-find-a-tender", "noticeId": "103472-2026", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-...", "stage": "tender",
  "title": "Mission Feasibility Studies – Spacecraft", "buyerName": "Department for Science, Innovation and Technology",
  "cpvCodes": ["34712100", "34700000"], "unspscCodes": [], "valueAmount": 2100000, "currency": "GBP",
  "deadline": "2026-11-27T13:00:00.000Z", "publishedDate": "2026-10-30T18:56:03.000Z", "procurementMethod": "open",
  "suppliers": [], "region": "UK", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103472-2026"
}

The run summary (OUTPUT in the key-value store) shows per-source counts, pages read, and any source that failed (the run still delivers from the others).

Notes and limits

• Stages per source: AusTender's OCDS API publishes contract notices (stage: contract); CanadaBuys open data used here is tender notices (stage: tender, no value). UK sources have all stages; an FTS "award + contract" release is award.
• Organisations only: supplier names are delivered only when they clearly look like an organisation (company register ID or organisational word such as Ltd, Pty, Council, University). Names that may be sole traders are withheld and counted in suppliersWithheld; "Person T/A Business Ltd" becomes "Business Ltd". Contact names, emails and phone numbers are never output.
• Values are as published (estimated value for tenders, award/contract value for awards), in GBP/AUD/CAD.
• Links: AusTender links open the AusTender contract-notice search for the CN ID (AusTender pages need a browser).
• Polite: one request at a time per source with a minimum gap, automatic back-off on HTTP 429 (Find a Tender is rate-limited) using Retry-After.
• Stateless: each run reads the window you ask for. For alerts, schedule daily with daysBack: 1-2 and dedupe on source + releaseId.

Data: UK Find a Tender and Contracts Finder (Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0); AusTender (Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 3.0 AU); CanadaBuys (Government of Canada, Open Government Licence - Canada). This Actor is not affiliated with any government.