Research ReportNo. 01
Where Federal Contract Dollars Land: Every Province, Ranked
22 years of federal awards mapped by vendor headquarters. Ontario vendors capture 67% of value; the Prairies win volume, not value.
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Research
Eleven publications across four research themes, all computed from the same compiled corpus: 1,313,281 federal award records (2004–2026), 405,956 Quebec tenders with named bidders, 2,043 CITT bid-challenge documents, and 15,068 British Columbia award entries.
Market structure
Who holds the money: vendor concentration, value distribution, and the geography of federal awards.
Research ReportNo. 04
The Concentration Economy: Who Wins Canada's Federal Contracts
One hundred vendors collect 62.6% of all federal contract value. The market's two economies — megaproject and repetition — documented from 1.31 million awards.
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Data NoteNo. 05
Where the Contracts Are: Value Distribution, 2004–2026
46% of federal awards are under $25,000; 95% are under $1 million. The long tail, measured — and what it means for entry.
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Competition
How contested public markets actually are: non-competitive awards, single-bid tenders, buyers and bidders.
Working PaperNo. 02
The Single-Bid Economy: Competition in Quebec Public Tendering
Across 405,956 Quebec tenders (2021–2026), 67.4% received exactly one bid. The published bidder lists make the measurement possible — and the finding uncomfortable.
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Research ReportNo. 06
A Decade Without Tenders: Non-Competitive Federal Contracting, 2015–2026
Roughly one federal award in three skips competition. After a 2018 trough, the share has drifted to its highest sustained level — and cannot be attributed by department from open data.
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Working PaperNo. 09
Quebec's Quiet Markets: Buyer-Level Competition in Public Tendering
Among Quebec's largest buyers, single-bid rates span 37% to 93%. What separates the buyers who get competition from the buyers who buy alone.
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Working PaperNo. 10
The Bidders: Who Shows Up, and Who Wins
Win rates for the market's most active firms: engineering consultancies at 45%, product suppliers near 70%, road-builders at one in four.
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Oversight and challenge
The record of contested outcomes at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
Data NoteNo. 03
2,043 Bid Challenges, 1990–2026
The complete CITT complaint registry, compiled. Filing rates have been flat for two decades while the contract base multiplied.
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Data NoteNo. 11
The Challengers: Serial Complainants at the CITT
Twelve firms filed one in seventeen of all CITT complaints. The challenge regime's participation base — and its skew — in aggregate public record.
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Regional and social economy
Provincial contract economies and the measurement of Indigenous-business participation.
Policy BriefNo. 07
Indigenous Business in Federal Procurement: What the Flags Show
The record's two Indigenous-business flags total $4.6B across 23 years. The measurement gaps are as consequential as the totals.
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Regional ReportNo. 08
British Columbia's Contract Economy
Fifteen years of BC award records: a highway economy, a road-builder vendor roster, and one year holding a fifth of all value.
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