Bidsandtenders APIbidsandtenders.com ↗

Search and discover public bid opportunities across Canada and the USA to find relevant procurement projects for your business. Access real-time tender data from the bids&tenders eProcurement platform to identify and pursue new contract opportunities.

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Endpoint health

monitored

search_bids

Checks pendingself-healing

Endpoints

Updated

3h ago

This call costs1 credit / call— charged only on success

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page

Page number (1-indexed). Each page returns up to 50 bids.

status

Filter by bid status.

keyword

Free-text search against bid name and organization name.

bid_type

Filter by bid type (e.g. Public, Prequalification, Invitational).

publish_to

Filter bids published on or before this date, format MM/DD/YYYY. Omit to not filter by end date.

organization

Comma-separated list of organization IDs to filter results. Organization IDs can be discovered from the platform's organization dropdown (e.g. 5231 for Metro Vancouver, 12416 for City of Abbotsford).

publish_from

Filter bids published on or after this date, format MM/DD/YYYY. Omit to not filter by start date.

→ api.parse.bot/scraper/94f5a0e0-28d3-4ff5-a4e7-dfd2e4953d34/<endpoint>

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curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/94f5a0e0-28d3-4ff5-a4e7-dfd2e4953d34/search_bids?page=1&status=Open&keyword=construction&organization=5231' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'

Python SDK · recommended

Typed, relational, agent-ready

A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.

Fully typed · autocompletes
Objects link to objects
Typed errors & pagination

Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:

uv add parse-sdk
uv run parse init
uv run parse add --marketplace bidsandtenders-com-api

uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.

"""Walkthrough: bidsandtenders SDK — bounded, re-runnable; every call capped."""
from parse_apis.bidsandtenders_com_api import BidsAndTenders, BidStatus, ParseError

client = BidsAndTenders()

# Search open bids in BC by organization IDs (Metro Vancouver + City of Surrey)
for bid in client.bids.search(status=BidStatus.OPEN, organization="5231,12412", limit=3):
    print(bid.bid_name, bid.organization, bid.closing_date)

# Keyword search across all open bids
bid = client.bids.search(keyword="construction", status=BidStatus.OPEN, limit=1).first()
if bid:
    print(bid.bid_name, bid.bid_type, bid.detail_url)

# Handle errors on a search
try:
    for b in client.bids.search(keyword="plumbing", limit=2):
        print(b.bid_name, b.status)
except ParseError as e:
    print(f"error: {e}")

print("exercised: bids.search")

All endpoints · 1 totalmissing one? ·

Search open and historical bid opportunities by keyword, status, organization, bid type, and date range. Results are paginated with up to 50 bids per page, ordered by closing date descending. To find bids in a specific province (e.g. BC), pass a comma-separated list of organization IDs for that region.

Input

Param	Type	Description
page	integer	Page number (1-indexed). Each page returns up to 50 bids.
status	string	Filter by bid status.
keyword	string	Free-text search against bid name and organization name.
bid_type	string	Filter by bid type (e.g. Public, Prequalification, Invitational).
publish_to	string	Filter bids published on or before this date, format MM/DD/YYYY. Omit to not filter by end date.
organization	string	Comma-separated list of organization IDs to filter results. Organization IDs can be discovered from the platform's organization dropdown (e.g. 5231 for Metro Vancouver, 12416 for City of Abbotsford).
publish_from	string	Filter bids published on or after this date, format MM/DD/YYYY. Omit to not filter by start date.

Response

{
  "type": "object",
  "fields": {
    "bids": "array of bid opportunity objects with bid_name, status, published_date, closing_date, organization, document_fees, bid_type, detail_url",
    "page": "current page number",
    "total": "total number of matching bids across all pages",
    "total_pages": "total number of pages available"
  },
  "sample": {
    "data": {
      "bids": [
        {
          "status": "Open",
          "bid_name": "25-767 - Hydrothermal Liquefaction Products Management – Research and Development",
          "bid_type": "Public",
          "detail_url": "https://metrovancouver.bidsandtenders.ca/Module/Tenders/en/Tender/Detail/0db78897-6f32-4316-88fb-d16685a0de71",
          "closing_date": "2028-12-31T22:00:00.0000000Z",
          "organization": "Metro Vancouver",
          "document_fees": "No",
          "published_date": "2025-12-23T00:30:00.0000000Z"
        }
      ],
      "page": 1,
      "total": 115,
      "total_pages": 3
    },
    "status": "success"
  }
}

About the Bidsandtenders API

The Bidsandtenders API on Parse exposes 1 endpoint for the publicly available data on bidsandtenders.com. Calls return JSON over HTTPS and are billed per successful response.

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