Market overview
The federal market, disclosed contract by disclosed contract. Nothing is added from one register to the other.
Key figures
quarterly disclosure714,702contracts204,495 amendments counted apart · 97 organisations · 300,247 contracts with no published type, not countedhow it's counted
Disclosed contracts — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- 714,702 contracts
- What goes in
- Each contract is counted once, across the whole federal contract disclosure: modifications (amendments) do not make one more contract. 204,495 modification (amendment) lines counted apart — such a line can be a contract's retained line; 300,247 contracts with no published type, not counted. They come from 97 federal organisations; 147,503 published supplier names, no business identity. The federal organizations with at least one of these contracts. Each supplier name, as the disclosure publishes it on the retained line of each contract, counts once; names on the contract's other lines do not count. Names are not merged: two spellings of the same company count twice. A contract with no supplier name adds none.
- The rows
- All federal organisations
- Source
- Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail
$24,775median contractover 672,416 declared amounts, or 100% · currency not published by the sourcesee the 672,443 contracts
Median disclosed contract — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- The median of the 672,416 declared amounts: $24,775.
- What goes in
- 672,416 declared amounts count, out of 672,443 contracts whose retained line is a contract (not an amendment); absent amounts and cancellations (negative amount) stay out of the median. The source does not publish the currency.
- Distribution
- Source
- Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail
Trends
contracts by disclosure quarterhow it's counted — Trends
Trends — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- The time axis is the disclosure quarter, not the signature date: the source publishes by quarter, months later. Contracts dated from January 11, 1999 to December 1, 2026. Aggregates computed on October 11, 2026.
- Breakdown
Trends Quarter Contracts Declared median Declared amounts Q3 7 $21,931declared 6 Q1 127 $20,895declared 124 C-2015-2016-Q1 1 $126,639declared 1 C-2014-2015-Q3 1 $36,033,142declared 1 9 4 $95,935declared 4 8 3 $26,651declared 2 7 5 $27,997declared 5 6 3 $804,574declared 2 5 1 $16,077declared 1 2108-19 Q3 2 $20,475declared 2 - Source
- Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail
Proactive disclosure, Government of Canada Open Data · aggregates of October 11, 2026
Which sectors are heating up
by disclosure quarter| Sector | 24-25 Q2 | 24-25 Q3 | 24-25 Q4 | 25-26 Q1 | 25-26 Q2 | 25-26 Q3 | 25-26 Q4 | 26-27 Q1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The federal market | -17 | -6 | +9 | -31 | -17 | +5 | +35 | +21 |
| Equipment and supplies | -2 | +6 | -2 | -15 | -8 | 0 | +4 | +17 |
| Information technology | -6 | +10 | +25 | -11 | -4 | +1 | +22 | -35 |
| Professional services | +13 | +14 | +5 | +17 | +2 | -2 | -27 | -20 |
| Construction and infrastructure | -4 | -21 | -9 | -9 | +11 | +3 | +7 | +23 |
| Transport and vehicles | -12 | -15 | -16 | +6 | 0 | +11 | +1 | +25 |
| Security and maintenance | +4 | +1 | -6 | +37 | -9 | -23 | -13 | +10 |
| Education and training | -16 | -5 | +15 | -16 | +4 | +11 | +30 | -21 |
| Environment and natural resources | +33 | +8 | -15 | -11 | +24 | +5 | -30 | -14 |
| Health and social services | +4 | -4 | -3 | +30 | +2 | -7 | -4 | -17 |
| Engineering and architecture | -1 | -1 | -11 | +3 | +14 | +7 | -3 | -6 |
how it's calculated — Which sectors are heating up
Which sectors are heating up — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- Each sector's gap to the federal market's movement, in points, disclosure quarter by disclosure quarter. A sector rising like everyone else is neutral; one rising more is hot. colder than the markethotter than the market The market row is each quarter's gap to its own mean; sector rows are their own gap minus the market's. 8 complete disclosure quarters; the current quarter is not disclosed yet. Counted in disclosed contracts (each contract counted once, amendments apart), by disclosure quarter: the source publishes quarterly, months after signature. The sector comes from the source's code, under the contracts rule; 102,617 contracts without a sector are outside the rows. No row or column totals. Seasonality is not removed: eight quarters are not enough to estimate it, and disclosure does not follow the buying season. 2,812 rows with a malformed quarter are off the axis.
- The rows
- See the contracts rule
- Source
- Proactive disclosure of contracts · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to quarter Q3 · link to this detail
Proactive disclosure, Government of Canada Open Data · aggregates of October 11, 2026
Why direct award
award noticeshow it's counted — Why direct award
Why direct award — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- Reasons quoted as the award notices publish them. Lauréo does not judge whether they apply — the federal counterpart of the SEAO's invoked provision.
- Breakdown
Why direct award Reason, as published Award notices None 11,149 Exclusive Rights 3,780 Additional Deliveries 94 Goods Purchased on a Commodity Market 62 No response to bid solicitation 58 Extreme Urgency 48 Subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals (for contracts that are only covered by the CFTA) 26 Purchases Made Under Exceptionally Advantageous Conditions 19 Consulting Services Regarding Matters of a Confidential Nature (for contracts not covered by CETA, CFTA, WTO-GPA, CPTPP, CKFTA and CUFTA) 16 Prototype Purchase 11 - Source
- CanadaBuys — award notices · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to date as of December 31, 2040 · link to this detail
Decision time
32 daysmedian delayover 13,042 dated decisions · notice found: 64.6%how it's calculated
Decision time — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- Median of 32 days between the notice closing and the award (middle half: 14 – 63), over 13,042 decisions dated at both ends. Days rounded to the whole day.
- What goes in
- 13,358 solicitations out of 20,668 find their notice (64.6%). The others have no published notice: they are not counted, and this figure says so.
- Distribution
- Source
- CanadaBuys — award notices · Open Government Licence – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0) · data up to date as of December 31, 2040 · link to this detail