Canadian Federal Government Tender Notices With Procurement Categories

Federal Government of Canada tender information published according to the Financial Administration Act, covering Schedule I, II, and III departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. The dataset includes a procurementCategory-categorieApprovisionnement field for filtering tenders into four major categories: construction (CNST), goods (GD), services (SRV), and services related to goods (SRVTGD).

Use Cases

• Analyze tender volume and distribution across the four procurementCategory-categorieApprovisionnement categories (CNST, GD, SRV, SRVTGD).
• Track publicationDate-datePublication trends to identify seasonal patterns in federal government procurement.
• Filter and extract tender description values for text analysis on specific goods or services solicitations.

Strengths

• Data is the authoritative source from the CanadaBuys platform for federal government tenders.
• Includes a defined procurementCategory-categorieApprovisionnement field with four standardized values for filtering.
• Provides an accompanying XML data dictionary for understanding all data fields.

Limitations

• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable, limiting initial assessment of dataset scale.
• Contains only federal government notices, excluding tender opportunities from provincial or municipal levels.
• Long tender description values may cause display issues in spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel.

Provenance

Source

CanadaBuys, the authoritative source for Government of Canada tender information.

Collection Method

Published by federal organizations complying with Government of Canada trade agreement obligations.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Canada, specifically federal government organizations.