CanadaBuys award notices

This dataset contains information on all Government of Canada award notices published according to the Financial Administration Act. It includes data for all Schedule I, Schedule II and Schedule III departments, agencies, Crown corporations, and other entities (unless specifically exempt) who must comply with the Government of Canada trade agreement obligations. CanadaBuys is the authoritative source of this information. Visit the How procurement works page on CanadaBuys to learn more.

All data files in this collection share a common column structure, and the procurement category field (labelled as “procurementCategory-categorieApprovisionnement”) can be used to filter by the following four major categories of awards:

  • Awards for construction, which will have a value of “CNST”
  • Awards for goods, which will have a value of “GD”
  • Awards for services, which will have a value of “SRV”
  • Awards for services related to goods, which will have a value of “SRVTGD”

Some award notices may be associated with one or more of the above procurement categories.

Note: Some records contain long award description values that may cause issues when viewed in certain spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel. When the information doesn’t fit within the cell’s character limit, the program will insert extra rows that don’t conform to the expected column formatting. (Though, all other records will still be displayed properly, in their own rows.) To quickly remove the “spill-over data” caused by this display error in Excel, select the publication date field (labelled as “publicationDate-datePublication”), then click the Filter button on the Data menu ribbon. You can then use the filter pull-down list to remove any blank or non-date values from this field, which will hide the rows that only contain “spill-over” description information.

The following list describes the resources associated with this CanadaBuys award notices dataset. Additional information on Government of Canada award notices can be found on the Award notices tab of the CanadaBuys Tender opportunities page.

NOTE: While the CanadaBuys online portal includes awards notices from across multiple levels of government, the data files in this related dataset only include notices from federal government organizations.

(1) CanadaBuys data dictionary: This XML file offers descriptions of each data field in the award notices files linked below, as well as other procurement-related datasets CanadaBuys produces. Use this as a guide for understanding the data elements in these files. This dictionary is updated as needed to reflect changes to the data elements.

(2) All CanadaBuys award notices, 2022-08-08 onward: This file contains up to date information on all award notices published on CanadaBuys. This includes any award notices that were published on or after August 8, 2022, when CanadaBuys became the system of record for all tender and award notices for the Government of Canada. This file includes any amendments made to these award notices during their lifecycles. It is refreshed each morning, between 7:00 am and 8:30 am (UTC-0500) to include any updates or amendments, as needed. Award notices in this file can have any publication date on or after August 8, 2022 (displayed in the field labelled “publicationDate-datePublication”), and can have a status of active, cancelled or expired (displayed in the field labelled “awardStatus-attributionStatut-eng”).

(3) Legacy award notices, 2012 to 2022-08 (prior to CanadaBuys): This file contains details of the award notices published prior to the implementation of CanadaBuys, which became the system of record for all tender and award notices for the Government of Canada on August 8, 2022. This datafile is refreshed monthly. The over 100,000 awards in this file have publication dates from August 6, 2022 and prior (displayed in the field labelled “publicationDate-datePublication”), and have a status of active, cancelled or expired (displayed included in the field labelled “awardStatus-attributionStatut-eng”).

Note: Procurement data was structured differently in the legacy applications previously used to administer Government of Canada contracts. Efforts have been made to manipulate these historical records into the structure used by the CanadaBuys data files, to make them easier to analyse and compare with new records. This process is not perfect since simple one-to-one mappings can’t be made in many cases. You can access these historical records in their original format as part of the archived copy of the original tender notices dataset, which contained awards-related data files. You can also refer to the supporting documentation for understanding the new CanadaBuys tender and award notices datasets.

(4) Award notices, YYYY-YYYY: These files contain information on all contracts awarded in the specified fiscal year. The current fiscal year's file is refreshed each morning, between 7:00 am and 8:30 am (UTC-0500) to include any updates or amendments, as needed. The files associated with past fiscal years are updated monthly. Awards in these files can have any publication date between April 1 of a given year and March 31 of the subsequent year (displayed in the field labelled “publicationDate-datePublication”) and can have an award status of active, cancelled or expired (displayed in the field labelled “awardStatus-attributionStatut-eng”).

Note: New award notice data files will be added on April 1 for each fiscal year.

Datasets available for download

Additional Info

Field Value
Last Updated October 22, 2024, 15:10 (UTC)
Created October 1, 2024, 06:47 (UTC)
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2023-04-27
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
Field Value
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
Field Value
Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Field Value
Source
Source of the dataset.
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a1acb126-9ce8-40a9-b889-5da2b1dd20cb
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
Field Value
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
Field Value
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

0 Comments

Please login or register to comment.