How many competitors

Does the lowest bid win? — where the number comes from

The calculation

53,566 of the 72,457 comparable notices were awarded at the lowest amount — 73.9%.

What goes in

A notice is comparable only if it carries at least two distinct amounts: elsewhere the question does not arise.

Source

SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · the rule, in Sources and limits · link to this detail

A single bidder, by procedure — where the number comes from

The calculation

Public call for tenders : 16,540 ÷ 115,302 = 14.3%Unclassified procedure : 26,673 ÷ 41,376 = 64.5%By invitation : 15,745 ÷ 40,375 = 39.0%By qualification : 1,016 ÷ 2,568 = 39.6%

What goes in

Direct awards are excluded: they have a single supplier by construction, and including them would inflate the figure without saying anything.

Source

SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · the rule, in Sources and limits · link to this detail

How many bids — where the number comes from

The calculation

379,857 of the 379,910 awarded notices (100.0%) name their bidders.

What goes in

Notices, by declared number of bidders. Coverage: 2009 – 2024. The open dataset stopped publishing bidders at the end of 2024 — Sources and limits

Breakdown

Procedure

Procedure	1	2	3	4 – 5	6 or more
Public call for tenders	16,540	23,522	14,297	25,260	35,683
Unclassified procedure	26,673	4,631	3,644	3,799	2,629
By invitation	15,745	12,567	5,613	4,380	2,070
By qualification	1,016	1,163	52	105	232

Source

SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · the rule, in Sources and limits · link to this detail