Methodology

This page describes how the figures in this section are produced. The definitions and rules below are those of the code that computes the pages; the numbers are from the latest update.

The six “Today” counters

Each homepage counter leads to a list that counts exactly the same thing, with the same rule.

Active notices 1,867: Notices whose published status is “open” and whose closing date has not passed (or is not published), whatever the procedure: open, selective, by invitation, direct award.
Active open tenders 1,740: Among active notices, those awarded through an open public tender (open to all suppliers). Active notices also include selective and by-invitation tenders and direct-award notices.
Active selective tenders 108: Among active notices, selective tenders (reserved for qualified suppliers).
Notices awarded in the last 7 days 1,102: Notices with at least one contract added to the published data during the last seven days (date the contract reached the data, not the award date).
Notices closing within 7 days 595: Among active notices, those closing within the next seven days.
Notices published in the last 7 days 105: Among active notices, those published during the last seven days.

Award methods and statuses: two sources, one vocabulary

Method	Published labels — Québec	Published labels — federal
Open tender	Avis d'appel d'offres ; régionalisé ; réservé aux petites entreprises ; achat mandaté ou regroupé	Competitive – Open bidding ; Traditional
Selective tender	Demande de prix auprès des entreprises qualifiées	Competitive – Selective tendering
By invitation	Appel d'offres sur invitation ; contrat à la suite d'un appel sur invitation	Competitive – Limited tendering
Direct award	Contrat de gré à gré	Advance contract award notice ; Non-competitive

Status	Published by
open	Québec and Federal
awarded	Québec only (no equivalent in the other source)
closed	Québec and Federal
cancelled	Québec and Federal

Deduplication

A federal notice is a duplicate of a Québec notice when both have the same normalized title (no accents, punctuation or capitals) and publication dates within seven days; the Québec version is kept. Organization, sector and region pages count a duplicate once; the six notice lists show it, flagged, so they count exactly like the homepage counters.

Duplicates found at the latest update: 10.

Updates

Pages are recomputed every day once the day's notices have been processed: between 09:15 and 12:45 (Eastern time), depending on when processing ends. If one source's data was not updated, or its volume drops sharply, the previous day's pages stay online.

New Québec notices are released as open data once a week: they arrive every Monday around 7 a.m. Federal notices arrive Monday to Friday around 8 a.m.

Latest update: October 25, 2026.

Which pages are published

An organization, sector or region page is complete when it has at least 10 notices (organizations), 10 (sectors) or 10 (regions) published over 24 months. Below that, it remains available in a reduced version.

Period and calculations

Period: rolling 24 months, October 24, 2024 to October 25, 2026, plus the current year 2026.
Median value: the median amount of awarded contracts with a positive value, over the period.
Direct-award share: direct-award notices divided by all notices published over the period.
Amendments: the sum of published additional expenses, relative to the initial value of the period’s contracts.
Taxes: amounts are shown as published; the open data does not state whether taxes are included.
Federal contracts are not published as open data; values, medians and amendments therefore cover Québec only.

Known limits

Location: the region is known for 87% of Québec notices (15,416 notices without a region, counted in totals but in no region page).
Location: the region is known for 43% of federal notices (7,328 notices without a region, counted in totals but in no region page).
Sector: 1,512 federal notices (12%) are not assigned to any sector.
Federal bodies: some federal notices name no organization; they are shown under “Government of Canada”.
Type of organization (for comparable organizations): inferred from the organization’s name; municipality or municipal body : 1,165, federal body : 279, education and higher education : 146, other public body : 134, provincial agency or crown corporation : 119, health and social services : 47, provincial ministry : 25, public transit : 12.

Sources and licences

Sources: notices and contracts published in the Government of Québec electronic tendering system (SEAO), distributed by Données Québec under the CC BY 4.0 licence, and on CanadaBuys (Government of Canada). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Data grouped, classified and computed by Adjulo. Amounts in Canadian dollars as published: the open data does not state whether taxes are included. Snapshot of October 25, 2026.