Market overview
The Quebec market, award by award. Nothing is added from one register to the other.
Key figures
230,357awards2021 → 2026how it's counted
Awards — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- 230,357 awards
- What goes in
- The awards on Quebec notices published from 2021 to 2026 — by the notice's publication date —, with no status filter. The category and method filters, when set, also apply. They involve 59,195 distinct suppliers and 1,958 contracting authorities, 830 of them active this year. Each supplier linked to at least one of these awards counts once, by the identity Lauréo gives it, excluding hidden suppliers. Counting is not naming: none is named here. The authorities with at least one of these awards. “Active this year”: those with an award on a notice published since January 1, 2026.
- Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail
$50,000median awardover 230,018 declared amounts, or 99.85%see the 230,357 awards
Median award — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- The median of the 230,018 declared amounts: $50,000. It is an amount actually awarded: when their number is even, the smaller of the two middle values.
- What goes in
- 230,018 declared amounts count, out of 230,357 awards; the others stay out of the median.
- Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail
awardsdeclared median
The data behind this chart
| Quarter | Awards | Declared median | Declared amounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-T1 | 9,391 | $50,000 | 9,386 |
| 2025-T2 | 9,605 | $49,882 | 9,600 |
| 2025-T3 | 7,561 | $49,469 | 7,559 |
| 2025-T4 | 8,330 | $48,872 | 8,327 |
| 2026-T1 | 10,861 | $49,800 | 10,858 |
| 2026-T2 | 10,110 | $48,800 | 10,108 |
| 2026-T3 | 8,526 | $49,323 | 8,525 |
| 2026-T4 · partial quarter | 436 | $46,164 | 435 |
how it's counted — Trends
Trends — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- Two series, two axes, never added together: the number of awards and the declared median. Across the complete years 2005 to 2025, May is the busiest month for publication and August the quietest — 1.4 times as many.
- Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail
SEAO, Données Québec · aggregates of October 4, 2026
Which sectors are heating up
seasonally adjusted| Sector | 2024-T4 | 2025-T1 | 2025-T2 | 2025-T3 | 2025-T4 | 2026-T1 | 2026-T2 | 2026-T3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The market | -10 | +4 | +6 | -17 | -8 | +20 | +11 | -6 |
| Professional services | -19 | -8 | -9 | -8 | -6 | +31 | +8 | +11 |
| Construction and infrastructure | +3 | -11 | -8 | +8 | +3 | -3 | -5 | +11 |
| Information technology | +2 | +9 | +9 | -7 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -12 |
| Equipment and supplies | +6 | +12 | 0 | +8 | -8 | -7 | -4 | -7 |
| Engineering and architecture | +14 | -5 | -3 | -8 | +11 | -10 | -3 | +4 |
| Health and social services | +26 | -21 | +8 | +10 | +10 | -22 | +7 | -18 |
| Environment and natural resources | -2 | +4 | +17 | -8 | -1 | 0 | -7 | -4 |
| Transport and vehicles | -14 | +37 | -8 | +12 | +2 | -19 | -2 | -8 |
| Education and training | -2 | +4 | +12 | +16 | -10 | -15 | -4 | -1 |
| Security and maintenance | -20 | -14 | -3 | -10 | +2 | +5 | +22 | +19 |
how it's calculated — Which sectors are heating up
Which sectors are heating up — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- How far each sector moved from the market, in points. A sector rising with everyone else is neutral; a sector rising more is hot. colder than the markethotter than the market The season the whole market follows: this is what is subtracted from the rows above. Counted in published tender notices — a notice can belong to several sectors, so there is no row total and no column total. 8 complete quarters; the current quarter is left out, because a pale cell caused by missing days would read as “it cooled down”.
- Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail
SEAO, Données Québec · aggregates of October 4, 2026
Why sole-source
the source is silent — SEAO does not publish a reason.
Decision time
26 daysmedian delayover 119,539 noticeshow it's calculated
Decision time — where the number comes from
- The calculation
- 26 days · 13–46
- What goes in
- days between the notice's closing date and the first award, all notices · median and middle half · over 119,539 notices
- Distribution
- Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail
This delay covers all of Quebec: the category and method filters do not apply to it.
how it's calculated — By method
By method — where the number comes from
- What goes in
- This delay covers all of Quebec: the category and method filters do not apply to it.
- Breakdown
By method Method Median Middle half Notices Public call for tenders 26 13–46 101,698 Unclassified method 29 14–51 13,081 By invitation 13 6–24 4,317 Selective 30 11–57 443 - Source
- SEAO — Quebec open data · CC-BY 4.0 · data up to date as of October 4, 2026 · link to this detail