Canadian Government Surplus Asset Sales Since August 2015

Public Services and Procurement Canada provides a record of all items sold through the GCSurplus website. The dataset includes sales from August 21, 2015 onward and is available in XML and CSV formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license. It was last updated on April 9, -2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in government asset disposal based on the sales records.
• Assess the types and frequency of surplus items sold to the public.
• Monitor government procurement and asset lifecycle management activities.

Strengths

• Data has a defined start date of August 21, 2015.
• Available in two common, machine-readable formats (XML and CSV).
• Published under a permissive open government license (OGL-CA-2.0).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada

Collection Method

Records of sales from the GCSurplus public auction website.

Time Range

August 21, 2015 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:36:02.034653; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada