/canadabuys/tenders/search

POST /api/canadabuys/tenders/search

Price: 30 credits

Search CanadaBuys tender notices by keyword, status, procurement category, notice kind, contract instrument, amendment kind, publication and closing windows, delivery location and NATO sourcing. Each row carries the notice title, category, publication or amendment date, closing date, the buying organization, whether the notice was amended, whether it is hosted on another portal, and its URL.

How to use it

Rows are the open-opportunities view, so a notice already awarded is served by canadabuys/awards/search instead. Pass the row id to canadabuys/tenders for the description, contacts, trade agreements, UNSPSC codes and attached documents — except where is_external is true, which is a NATO row whose detail lives on the NSPA portal named in url.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• count integer required — Max number of results (min: 1; max: 1000)
• offset integer — How many results to skip before the first returned row (default: 0; min: 0; max: 1000000)
• query string nullable — Keyword matched on the notice title and description (examples: "software")
• status string nullable — Notice status (one of: "open", "expired", "cancelled", "awarded")
• category string nullable — Procurement category (one of: "construction", "goods", "services", "services_related_to_goods")
• notice_type string nullable — Kind of notice (one of: "not_applicable", "request_for_information", "request_for_proposal", "request_for_supply_arrangement", "request_for_standing_offer", "rfp_against_supply_arrangement", "invitation_to_qualify", "directed_contract", "advance_contract_award_notice", "other", "future_business_opportunities", "notifications_of_intent")
• instrument_type string nullable — Contract instrument the notice was placed under (one of: "contract", "contract_against_supply_arrangement", "standing_offer", "supply_arrangement", "task_authorization_based_contract")
• amendment_type string nullable — Whether the record is an original, an amendment or a termination (one of: "amendment", "original", "termination")
• published_within string nullable — Publication window relative to today (one of: "last_24_hours", "last_7_days", "last_30_days", "more_than_30_days")
• closing_within string nullable — Closing window relative to today (one of: "today", "next_7_days", "next_30_days", "over_30_days")
• locations array nullable — Delivery locations as named by the portal (examples: ["Alberta","Ottawa"])
• nato_only boolean nullable — Only notices sourced from NATO; the portal does not support excluding them (one of: true)

Response

• @type string (default: "CanadabuysNoticeSummary")
• id string required
• notice_kind string required (one of: "tender", "award", "contract_history")
• category string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• closing_at integer nullable
• is_amended boolean nullable
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CanadabuysOrganization")
  • name string nullable
  • address string nullable
• is_external boolean nullable
• country string (default: "CA")
• url string required

Errors

• 422 — A location is not a name of the CanadaBuys delivery location list Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.