Find Canadian Government
Tenders & Contracts.

The database covers the full federal procurement lifecycle: tender notices (RFPs, RFQs, ACANs, and standing offer refreshes) posted on CanadaBuys, contracts and amendments disclosed through Treasury Board proactive reporting, and award notices. Federal records go back to 2009. Nova Scotia awarded tenders from 2010. Quebec public sector procurement via SEAO from 2021. Alberta sole-source contracts from 1975.

Before records reach the API, they're normalized. Department names are mapped across 91 variants to a consistent set of canonical values. Procurement categories collapse to four codes: Goods, Services, Construction, and Services & Goods. Contracts link to their originating tenders by solicitation_number, so you can trace the full lifecycle from RFP to contract to amendment in one query. Vendor names are reconciled, bilingual fields are preserved, and contract_value is a real numeric column, not buried in a description string.

For tenders, we don't stop at the notice. We download every attached RFP PDF, extract the full text with pypdf, and fold it into the searchable record, so when you search for a keyword, you're searching inside the actual procurement documents, not just titles and summaries. Security clearance requirements are parsed out separately as a structured field.

Before a formal RFP is posted, the government often signals its intent. ProcureData exposes these early-stage notices as a dedicated endpoint: GET /pre_solicitation. The 11,600+ records currently available break down into three notice types.

Advance Contract Award Notices (ACANs) announce that the government intends to award a contract to a specific supplier without competition. A 15-day public comment window gives eligible vendors a narrow chance to challenge. With 5,900+ ACANs in the database, ACANs are the clearest signal of non-competitive intent.

Requests for Information (RFIs) are market research, not procurement. Departments use them to understand what suppliers exist and what solutions are available before committing to a formal process. Responding to an RFI positions your firm before the scope is locked.

Invitations to Qualify (ITQs) are pre-qualification exercises. Vendors who qualify get added to a shortlist; the formal solicitation only goes to that list. Missing the ITQ means missing the tender. There are 1,800+ ITQs in the database.

All three types remain fully accessible through GET /tender as well. The /pre_solicitation endpoint is a focused lens for teams that want to filter to pre-competitive activity specifically.