CanadaBuys Award Notices for Federal Government Contracts
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Description
Government of Canada award notices published under the Financial Administration Act. The dataset includes awards for construction, goods, services, and services related to goods from all Schedule I, II, and III departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. Public Services and Procurement Canada is the authoritative source, and the data was last updated on April 10, 2026.
Use Cases
Analyze procurement trends based on the four major award categories (CNST, GD, SRV, SRVTGD).
Track federal government spending by filtering award notices by organization type.
Study compliance with trade agreement obligations across government entities.
Strengths
Data is the authoritative source for Government of Canada award notices.
Includes a structured procurement category field for filtering by four major award types.
Covers all Schedule I, II, and III federal departments, agencies, and Crown corporations.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Some award description values may cause display issues in spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel.
Provenance
Source
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Collection Method
Published according to the Financial Administration Act.
Time Range
Temporal coverage is not specified.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-10 23:46:31.006205; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Federal government organizations in Canada.
The dataset only includes federal government notices, not other levels of government present on the CanadaBuys portal. Some records contain long descriptions that may cause formatting issues in Excel.