How many competitors

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

The calculation

Public call for tenders : 3,187 ÷ 7,776 = 41.0%Selective : 1,241 ÷ 2,397 = 51.8%By invitation : 17,907 ÷ 32,858 = 54.5%22,335 contracts with a single bid ÷ 43,031 contracts = 51.9%

What goes in

Public call for tenders, selective or invitation contracts that publish a number of bids above zero, one per contract. Call-ups against a standing offer, sole-source and unclassified procedures stay out. Sole-source contracts are excluded: one bid by definition (95,968 contracts that publish a count). Call-ups against a standing offer are set aside — 56,690 call-ups: they report one bid, the call-up, not the competition. 15 contracts with an unclassified procedure that publish a count are set aside too. Each bar is relative to the highest.

Source

Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail

How many bids — where the number comes from

The calculation

40,635 base contracts awarded in 2022 or later ÷ 43,031 base contracts = 94.4%

What goes in

Contracts, by number of bids reported. 7,732 “By invitation” contracts report exactly three bids, more than report two: this is what the source publishes, and this page does not explain it. 2022: the first year of the run of complete years, up to last year, in which the source publishes the number of bids for at least half of the contracts. Base contracts with no award date stay in the denominator, never in the numerator.

Breakdown

Procedure

Procedure	1	2	3	4 – 5	6 or more	Median
Public call for tenders	3,187	1,450	1,126	931	1,082	2quartiles 1 and 4
Selective	1,241	476	459	149	72	1quartiles 1 and 3
By invitation	17,907	4,800	7,732	1,826	593	1quartiles 1 and 3

Source

Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail