I think fixing procurement is the best way to improve government.
Sep 1, 2026
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6 min read
Nine uncrewed-systems tenders in seven days, from the military to a city police force, plus the IT and defence work worth reading this week.
Aug 27, 2026
7 min read
Ontario's Municipalities Already Spend 78 Cents on the Dollar at Home, and the Foreign Share Hides in Plain Sight Ontario's.
Aug 18, 2026
We track what the two biggest buyers, SSC and PSPC, are still tendering after a drop in consulting
Aug 11, 2026
8 min read
National Defence Is Buying Faster Every Quarter, and Fisheries Just Lost Its Fleet
Aug 6, 2026
Telesat's Arctic satcom award, a $5.7B subway package, and a quiet Treasury Board push to unbundle contracts for small business.
Jul 28, 2026
10 min read
Canada gave itself top marks on internal trade. But only four of fourteen governments will show you who won their contracts, and the opacity has a price.
Jul 21, 2026
Half the money stays with NL-based firms. In tech, seven of every ten dollars go to foreign-owned vendors. We mapped all $5.4 billion of it.
Jul 14, 2026
A new sovereignty policy wants more of this money to stay home. The data shows exactly how much room there is to make that happen.
Jul 7, 2026
Where buying accelerated in Q2 2026, and how Alberta had the hottest in RFP in the country.
Jun 30, 2026
5 min read
The Carney government has been busy shopping Canadian defence tech abroad and buying it domestically.
Jun 23, 2026
Doug builds a hospital, and another, and another.
Jun 16, 2026
9 min read
$6.44 billion in roads, pipes, and parks, and the firms winning the work.
Jun 10, 2026
14 min read
The Feds drop their AI strategy, so we pulled every AI contract across the country. The data tells the story the strategy is missing.....
Jun 2, 2026
This was the biggest three months in procurement history, and we've got the analytics to prove it
May 27, 2026
We mapped every single defence, dual-use, and defence-curious company in Canada using our database of procurement. The findings were.....interesting to say the least.
May 19, 2026
Canada is building, funding, and launching nearly everything in sight. We follow the $42B.
May 12, 2026
$1.5B to defend Canadian industry from US tariffs. $1.13B to Lockheed Martin for HIMARS. The Buy Canadian story has limits, and this is what they look like.
May 5, 2026
The Spring Economic Update opens a Federal Contracts Review, cuts external consulting by 20 per cent, and seeds a $25 billion sovereign wealth fund.
Apr 28, 2026
Ontario's $37B spending in one year, a Canadian-content scoring rewrite, and a discretionary fund the Minister of Finance controls.
Apr 15, 2026
Ten years of $100M-plus awards, the $51 billion Build Communities launch, and the policy shift that changes the mid-market math.
Apr 7, 2026
Saskatchewan published $4.3 billion in capital projects with named contractors, bed counts, and completion dates.
Mar 31, 2026
12 min read
Nearly 50 defence projects went public this week. Plus: inside NRC's $3.5 billion procurement machine.
Mar 24, 2026
11 min read
From forensic accountants in Edmonton to Market Soundings in Toronto — Canadian healthcare procurement contains multitudes.
Mar 17, 2026
13 min read
11,553 Opportunities and a Hard Deadline: Inside Canada's Annual Government Spending Sprint
Mar 10, 2026
Inside Alberta's $28.3 billion capital plan and the procurement surge already underway
