Canadian government contracting by the numbers.
Disclosed federal contracts over $10,000 · data as of 2026-08-11
Counts are of individual disclosed contract records, not of dollars awarded. A single procurement can appear as several records when it is amended.
| Rank | Department | Disclosed contracts | Share of all records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | National Defence | 362,769 | 27.6% |
| 02 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 117,531 | 8.9% |
| 03 | Global Affairs Canada | 79,173 | 6.0% |
| 04 | Public Services and Procurement Canada | 73,475 | 5.6% |
| 05 | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 69,222 | 5.3% |
| 06 | Parks Canada | 61,027 | 4.6% |
| 07 | Correctional Service of Canada | 58,959 | 4.5% |
| 08 | National Research Council Canada | 50,044 | 3.8% |
| 09 | Canada Revenue Agency | 43,315 | 3.3% |
| 10 | Employment and Social Development Canada | 40,131 | 3.1% |
Source: proactive-disclosure feeds published by the Government of Canada on open.canada.ca, consolidated and normalized by ProposalForge. Every figure on this page is a count of records or a ratio of counts — no dollar values are reported here.
We believe this is the most complete public view of disclosed federal contracts over $10,000, consolidated from the government’s own feeds. It is a view of what has been disclosed — not of everything the federal government buys. Known limits:
- Disclosure threshold: departments are only required to proactively disclose contracts over $10,000. Smaller awards, including most acquisition-card purchases, are absent.
- Prime contracts only: subcontracts are not disclosed, so work flowing through a prime to smaller firms is invisible in this data.
- National security exemptions: contracts withheld under national security or other statutory exemptions never enter the feeds and therefore cannot appear here.
- Fiscal-year scoping: the fiscal-year breakdown is limited to fiscal years from 2021-2022 onward, where source attribution is consistent. Earlier records exist in the underlying dataset but are excluded from these year-over-year counts.
- Amendments: departments republish amended contracts as new records, so counts measure disclosed records rather than distinct procurements.
The fiscal-year breakdown above covers fiscal years 2021-2022 through 2026-2027; the headline totals include all disclosed records, including years before that window.
Independent analysis of government-published data by ProposalForge, a Canadian-owned procurement intelligence company. Prepared and maintained by Rob Chiarello, founder of ProposalForge. We are not affiliated with the Government of Canada.
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| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | initial publication; dataset refreshed same day |