Canada Tenders Scraper — Federal + Québec (CanadaBuys, SEAO)

The only Actor that combines two official Canadian government tender sources in one normalized feed:

• CanadaBuys — every federal tender notice (Government of Canada system of record)
• SEAO — Québec's entire public sector: ministries, municipalities, health care, education
• Nova Scotia — awarded public tenders across government and the MASH sector, with winning vendor and award amount in CAD

Filter by keyword, procurement category, region, UNSPSC code and closing date. Built exclusively on official open data (Open Government Licence – Canada, CC-BY Québec) — no proxies, no blocks, no login.

Why this Actor?

• Widest coverage. Other actors return only the federal CSV. This one adds the Québec public sector — thousands of provincial and municipal opportunities others miss. More provinces (Ontario, BC) are on the roadmap.
• One schema. Both sources are normalized into the same clean record: title, buyer, category, UNSPSC, closing date, contact, notice URL, source, jurisdiction.
• Built for monitoring. Turn on Incremental mode and schedule daily/weekly runs: you only get (and pay for) tenders you haven't seen before.
• Filters that save you money. You only pay for records that match your keywords, categories, regions and closing window.
• Award data (Québec). Optionally include awarded contracts with values in CAD — useful for market research and competitor analysis.

Use cases

• Contractors and consultants monitoring RFPs in their industry or province
• Bid-writing agencies tracking opportunities for clients across jurisdictions
• Market research on government spending (who buys what, award values)
• Feeding procurement data into AI agents, CRMs or Slack alerts via the Apify API

Input example

{
    "sources": ["canadabuys", "seao"],
    "keywords": ["software", "cloud", "informatique"],
    "closingWithinDays": 30,
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Tip: SEAO titles are in French — add French keywords (e.g. "informatique", "construction") to catch Québec tenders.

Output example

{
    "id": "ocds-ec9k95-20068432",
    "titleFr": "Services d'architecture — rénovation école primaire",
    "solicitationNumber": "CFP-2526-009",
    "publicationDate": "2026-06-28",
    "closingDate": "2026-07-25T14:00:00-04:00",
    "status": "active",
    "procurementCategory": "services",
    "buyerOrg": "Ville de Montréal",
    "regionsOfDelivery": "Quebec",
    "unspsc": "81110000",
    "noticeUrl": "https://seao.gouv.qc.ca/avis-resultat-recherche/consulter?ItemId=...",
    "source": "seao",
    "jurisdiction": "quebec",
    "country": "CA"
}

FAQ

How fresh is the data? CanadaBuys publishes new tenders every 2 hours; the full open-tenders file refreshes daily. SEAO publishes weekly open-data files; the Actor automatically picks the newest ones from the Données Québec catalogue.

Which provinces are covered? Federal (all of Canada) + Québec open tenders + Nova Scotia awarded contracts. Ontario and BC are next — open an issue to vote.

How do I get alerts for new tenders? Enable onlyNewSinceLastRun, save your filters as a Task, add a Schedule, and connect email/Slack via Apify integrations.

How do I scrape Canadian government tenders without coding? Press Run — the default input returns current federal + Québec tenders as a table you can export to Excel, CSV or JSON.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents via the Apify MCP server. Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent can monitor Canadian government tenders on demand — e.g. "find open construction tenders in Quebec closing in the next two weeks".

Add this to your MCP client configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=truenorthdata/canada-tenders-scraper"
    }
  }
}

On first connection you'll sign in to Apify via OAuth. Your agent can then call the Actor with any input this README describes. Works with agentic payments (x402/Skyfire) too.

Use in Clay and n8n (no code)

Plug government tenders straight into the tools your team already uses.

Clay — add a source → Import from Apify Actor → search canada-tenders-scraper → set your input (e.g. sources = ["canadabuys","seao"], keywords, closingWithinDays). Turn on auto-update to append new matching tenders as rows, then enrich the buying organizations.

n8n — add the official Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify): Run Actor on truenorthdata/canada-tenders-scraper with your filters, then Get Dataset Items, and route to Google Sheets, a CRM, or a Slack alert. Add a Schedule trigger and turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun for a running feed of only newly published tenders.

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All built on official Canadian open data.