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GET/tender

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
municipalitystringoptionalFilter to one city by its slug, e.g. 'new_westminster', 'toronto', 'north_vancouver_city'. Exact match. This is the city filter for BuildData datasets (permits, development permits, planning applications, inspections); call /{entity_type}/coverage for the list of valid slugs. The 'city' param is accepted as an alias here. (For the US liquor/healthcare/tank datasets, 'city' is instead a distinct filter and 'municipality' does not apply.)
qstringoptionalFull-text search across every field of the record, including names (business, establishment, licensee, vendor, contractor) wherever the dataset carries them, e.g. q=brewery or q="Iron Hill". This is the name search: there is no separate name= parameter, and it works on every plan including free. Space-separated words require all terms (e.g. "wood panel"). Use OR to match any term ("wood OR panel OR acoustic"), quotes for exact phrases ("supply arrangement"), and a leading minus to exclude ("software -hardware").
departmentstringoptionalFilter by department name (partial/substring match; min 3 characters). Matches the normalized department name.
categorystringoptionalProcurement category: CNST, GD, SRV, SRVTGD. For recalls: product category (e.g. 'Baby products', 'Toys and games'). For healthcare: facility category (acute, long_term, home, behavioral, outpatient, specialty). For storage tanks: record type (tank or release).
statusstringoptionalFilter by status. Contracts/tenders: Active, Expired, Cancelled, Open (exact). Permits: use a status_canonical value instead (issued, in_review, completed, expired, cancelled, unknown).
procurement_methodstringoptionalFilter by procurement method (prefix match on procurement_method_en/fr, e.g. 'Competitive')
notice_typestringoptionalTender notice type — exact, case-insensitive match on the full value (e.g. 'Request for Proposal'). Abbreviations like 'ACAN' will not match; see /tender/stats for values.
reference_numberstringoptionalExact tender/notice reference number (e.g. the CanadaBuys 'cb-...' id). Returns the notice and all its amendments.
value_minnumberoptionalMinimum value, applied to the entity's value field (construction_value for permits, contract_value for contracts, agreement_value for grants, monetary_amount for contributions, total_co2e for emissions, assessed_value for assessments). Ignored for entity types with no monetary field.
value_maxnumberoptionalMaximum value; same per-entity field mapping as value_min. Ignored for entity types with no monetary field.
issued_afterstringoptionalFilter by date >= YYYY-MM-DD (award_date for contracts/awards, publication_date for tenders). Aliases: date_from, date_after
issued_beforestringoptionalFilter by date <= YYYY-MM-DD. Aliases: date_to, date_before
closing_afterstringoptionalFilter tenders by closing_date >= YYYY-MM-DD.
closing_beforestringoptionalFilter tenders by closing_date <= YYYY-MM-DD.
sort_bystringoptionalSort field: published (publication_date, tenders only), date (event date; this is award_date for contracts/awards), value (the entity's value field), closing (closing_date for tenders)
sort_orderstringoptionalSort order: asc or desc
limitintegeroptional
offsetintegeroptional
cursorstringoptionalPagination cursor from next_cursor in a previous response. Use instead of offset for deep pagination.

Request

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY'
import requests

url = "https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender"
headers = {"x-rapidapi-host": "procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com", "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(resp.json())
const res = await fetch("https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender", {
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-host": "procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com",
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "x-rapidapi-host: procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com",
    "x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
]);
echo curl_exec($ch);
require "net/http"
require "uri"

uri = URI("https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-rapidapi-host"] = "procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com"
req["x-rapidapi-key"] = "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY"
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.body
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender", nil)
    req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-host", "procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com")
    req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-key", "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY")
    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.*;

HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com/tender"))
    .header("x-rapidapi-host", "procuredata-canadian-government-procurement-api.p.rapidapi.com")
    .header("x-rapidapi-key", "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY")
    .build();
HttpResponse<String> res = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(res.body());

Response fields

One tender record. Measured over 3,400 live records sampled across municipalities. Percentages say how often each field is populated: sources publish different columns, so a field missing from a given record is normal rather than an error.

FieldTypeDescription
buyer_idstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
closing_datestringPopulated in 39% of sampled records.
department_frstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
documentsarrayPopulated in 36% of sampled records.
eligibilityobjectPopulated in 52% of sampled records.
fetched_atstringWhen Nimbus last ingested this record. Bookkeeping, not source data. Always present.
government_levelstringPopulated in 78% of sampled records.
municipalitystringCity slug. Call /{entity_type}/coverage for every slug in this dataset. Always present.
notice_type_enstringPopulated in 94% of sampled records.
notice_urlstringPopulated in 36% of sampled records.
ocidstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
procurement_categorystringPopulated in 89% of sampled records.
procurement_methodstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
publication_datestringAlways present.
record_idstringStable identifier for this record. Pass it to the /{entity_type}/{record_id} endpoint. Always present.
statusstringAlways present.
status_frstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
tender_idstringPopulated in 88% of sampled records.
title_frstringPopulated in 94% of sampled records.
16 more fields published by only one or two cities

Present on under 10% of records. Useful when you are working with a specific city, not something to rely on across the dataset.

FieldTypePopulated
contact_emailstring5.9%
contact_namestring5.9%
contact_phonestring5.9%
contract_valuestring0.0%
department_enstring5.9%
document_urlstring5.9%
noip_type_enstring5.9%
notice_url_enstring5.9%
provincestring5.9%
solicitation_numberstring5.5%
source_urlstring5.9%
status_enstring0.0%
tender_close_datestring5.9%
tender_numberstring5.9%
title_enstring5.9%
wardsstring5.9%

Errors

Every error returns {"detail": "…"}, a sentence naming what was wrong and, where there is one, the fix.

StatusWhen
400The request is understood but cannot be served as asked, e.g. offset above 9500, or cursor combined with sort_by=value. The message names the fix.
403Missing or invalid API key.
404No such endpoint, or no record with that id.
422A parameter is invalid: an unknown city slug, an impossible date, a limit above 500, an unrecognised sort field, or a misspelled parameter name. The message names the parameter and, where there is one, the nearest valid value.
429Rate limit or plan quota exceeded.
500Unexpected server error.
504The query took too long. Narrow it with a municipality or a date range.
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