Where this data comes from

• New tender notices

  Reloaded every 2 hours

• Open tender notices

  Reloaded every 2 hours (published daily)

• Award notices, fiscal year 1969-1970

  Reloaded daily at 06:30 UTC

• Data dictionary

  Reference

How the refresh works

Every two hours we download the new-notice and open-notice files, match each record on its CanadaBuys reference number, and update it in place. Any notice that was open on the previous run but has dropped out of the open file is marked closed. Award notices for the current fiscal year, 1969-1970, reload once a day at 06:30 UTC. Each run is logged, so gaps are visible rather than silent, and the time of the last successful run appears at the top of every page.

The refresh runs in the background. The schedule starts it and gets an immediate acknowledgement, so a long download can never be cut short by a timeout, and the run's own log row records how it ended.

Two safeguards protect the record. If a run sees fewer than half the rows of the previous successful run, it is logged as suspicious and no notice is marked closed, so a short or broken source file cannot wipe out open tenders. And notices from provincial, municipal, school-board or health-authority buyers are skipped, because version one of this site covers federal procurement only.

Changing where the refresh posts

The schedule lives in the database and calls this site over HTTP. The address it calls is stored in one row of the site_settings table, under the key ingest_base_url, and defaults to https://tendercomps.com. To point the schedule at a different deployment, update that single row:

update site_settings
   set value = 'https://example.tendercomps.com'
 where key = 'ingest_base_url';

No redeploy is needed. The next scheduled run reads the new value.

Licence

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. TenderComps is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Canada.

Finance and accounting filter

A notice is included when its title, description or category contains one of these whole-word terms. Matching is not case-sensitive.

• audit
• audits
• auditing
• auditor
• accounting
• accountant
• accountants
• bookkeeping
• bookkeeper
• financial advisory
• financial advisor
• financial adviser
• financial management
• financial statement
• financial statements
• financial services
• financial systems
• tax
• taxation
• payroll
• erp
• enterprise resource planning
• procurement services
• actuarial
• internal control
• internal controls
• treasury
• cost accounting
• budgeting
• chartered professional accountant
• cpa

Known limits

• English fields only for now; French titles are stored but not displayed.
• Award and contract values reflect what the source file reports, including amendments.
• Notices can be amended or cancelled on CanadaBuys between our refreshes.
• Awards cover the current fiscal year, 1969-1970, and earlier years already loaded.