Canadian Government Contracts for Land, Building, and Works, $250k+ Threshold
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Description
Annual fiscal data from the Public Accounts of Canada details contracts for land, building, and works valued at $250,000 or more. It includes contractor names, project descriptions and locations, contracted amounts, and yearly and cumulative expenditures. The dataset is provided by Public Services and Procurement Canada and is updated with each fiscal year.
Use Cases
Analyze government spending distribution based on contractor location and project details.
Track annual and cumulative expenditures for major infrastructure projects.
Identify major contractors and project types within the Canadian federal government.
Strengths
Includes a specific financial threshold: contracts of $250,000 or over ($25,000 for cost-plus).
Provides multiple data points per contract: contractor, location, description, and expenditures.
Data is sourced from the official Public Accounts of Canada, Volume III.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
Public Services and Procurement Canada, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume III.
Collection Method
Published at the end of each fiscal year as part of government-wide financial reporting.
Time Range
Covers fiscal years, with specific mention of data for 2009-2010 and later.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-09 16:34:48.513305; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Canada (federal government contracts).
License is OGL-CA-2.0. This dataset is not the official record; the official version is on the Receiver General and Library and Archives websites.