Introducing ProcureData — A Unified API for Canadian Government Procurement

The Canadian federal government spends tens of billions of dollars each year on contracts, goods, and services. All of this data is publicly available through CanadaBuys (BuyAndSell.gc.ca) under Canada's Open Government Licence. But accessing it programmatically has always been painful — bulk CSV downloads, inconsistent formatting, and no real API.

ProcureData changes that.

What ProcureData does

ProcureData is a REST API that normalizes federal procurement data from CanadaBuys into a clean, queryable format. Three entity types, one API:

• Contracts (574K+ records, from 2009): awarded contracts with vendor, department, value, description, and procurement category
• Tenders (97K+ records, from 2009): open and closed tender notices with closing dates and procurement methods
• Awards (130K+ records, from 2012): award notifications with vendor and contract value

Together, that's over 800,000 records covering 17 years of federal procurement history.

Key features

• Bilingual: every record preserves both English and French fields — department_en, department_fr, description_en, description_fr
• Rich filtering: search by vendor, department, procurement category, value range, date range, and full-text keyword
• Lifecycle tracking: follow any solicitation from tender to award to contract via solicitation_number
• Stats endpoint: aggregate spending by department, category, vendor, or time period
• Weekly updates: automated pipelines pull fresh data from CanadaBuys every Monday

Who it's for

ProcureData is built for developers and companies working in:

• Government BD and sales: track which departments are buying what, identify upcoming opportunities from tender notices, monitor competitor wins
• Vendor intelligence: build profiles on any government vendor — total contract value, top departments, category breakdown
• Compliance and audit: pull the full procurement lifecycle for any solicitation, verify vendor claims, flag sole-source patterns
• Market research: analyse federal spending trends by category, department, or time period across 17 years of data

The data behind the numbers

Some things you can find in ProcureData right now:

• Which vendors have the largest federal contract portfolios
• How construction spending compares to IT services spending over the past decade
• Which departments issue the most tenders each quarter
• The average time from tender to award for different procurement categories

All of this is queryable through a simple REST API with JSON responses.

Get started

ProcureData is available on RapidAPI with a free tier (100 requests/day). No credit card required.