Public tenders in Canada

How public tendering works in Canada

Canada publishes federal and participating provincial tenders through a single open register, in both official languages.

• Our Canadian listings come from CanadaBuys, which carries English and French versions of every notice. Where a notice has both, we hold both.
• Canada classifies its tenders using its own categories and UNSPSC codes rather than the European CPV system we use for category pages, so most Canadian tenders here have no category yet.
• Some notices are hosted on MERX rather than CanadaBuys; the link on each page goes wherever the official notice actually lives.

Open now

827

Closing this week

175

Typical time to bid

35 days

With a published value

0%

Figures are counted from the 827 open Canada tenders we hold right now, and change as notices are published and close. "Typical time to bid" is the median gap between publication and deadline.

Most common right now: Construction work (164), Transport equipment (79), Business services: law, marketing, consulting and recruitment (76), Architectural, construction and engineering services (72), Laboratory, optical and precision equipment (41)

Buyers publishing most often: Department of Public Works and Government Services (PSPC), Department of National Defence (DND), National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Parks Canada Agency (PC), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).