How the registry works

Source

Every record comes from the CanadaBuys award notices open-data file published by Public Services and Procurement Canada under the Open Government Licence – Canada. It covers federal award notices from August 8, 2022 onward. The registry was last refreshed on 2026-09-25: 28,350 notice rows, of which 1,132 were in the construction category.

What is included

• Awards in the construction procurement category, keeping the latest amendment of each contract.
• Awards whose titles describe civil work (roads, bridges, marine, water and sewer, earthworks, demolition, rail, snow and similar). A firm needs at least one civil award to appear.
• The supplier’s legal name as published, and its head-office city and province.
• Contract title, award date, total contract value as published, buyer, delivery region, and contract and reference numbers.

What is left out

• Suppliers whose names do not indicate a business (for example, a sole proprietor trading under a personal name). 65 such names were excluded.
• Street addresses, postal codes and every contact person named in the notices.
• Provincial, municipal and private work. The federal file does not include it.

Limits

• Values are total contract values as published and can include options and amendments.
• Types of work are assigned automatically from contract titles and can be wrong.
• The same firm can appear under slightly different legal names; we merge obvious variants only.

Registry numbers

Registry numbers follow the date of each firm’s first award in the file. They are identifiers, not rankings.

Corrections

Use correct or add a record. We check every change against the published notices.