Canadian public procurement, measured.
Our research team compiles Canadian public-sector contracting records — awards, tenders, bidders, and challenges — into a single versioned corpus, and publishes the aggregate findings here: statistics, tools, and research notes. No raw records, no dumps — aggregates only.
$1,212.3B
federal award value, 2004–2026
1,313,281
federal award records
405,956
Quebec tenders with named-bidder detail
2,043
bid challenges, 1990–2026
15,068
BC ministry awards, 2012–2026
Findings
Deep dives from the current release
87.2% of federal awards go to vendors outside the top 100 · 29.3% of procedure-labelled awards are non-competitive · three quarters of Quebec service tenders draw a single bid · twelve firms account for 120 of 2,043 bid challenges.
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Tools
Competition lookup, yearly explorers, league tables
Clean tables computed from the corpus: category × bidder intensity, the full 2004–2026 federal series, department rankings, and where the dollars land by province.
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The corpus
What we compile, normalize, and verify
Four jurisdictions and record types, 1990–2026, under continuous refresh. Coverage, methods, and release history are documented in full.
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