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Engineering contracts in Canada

Public buyers in Canada published 63,408 engineering contract awards between 2002 and 2026, worth $53.7 billion where a value was published, from 1,724 buyers. Public Works and Government Services Canada awarded the most, with 1,918.

At a glance

63,408

Contract awards

Published award notices in this category.

$53.7 billion

Published value

From the 56,007 awards that published a value.

1,724

Public buyers

Departments, agencies, municipalities and institutions.

2002 to 2026

Years on record

First and latest award in this group.

Who buys

Top buyers

The public buyers that awarded the most engineering contracts.

  1. 1Public Works and Government Services Canada1,918 awards · $472.9 million
  2. 2Ministère des Transports (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics)1,512 awards · $602.3 million
  3. 3Centre de services scolaire de Montréal / BDA1,480 awards · $221.6 million
  4. 4Ministère des Transports et de la mobilité durable (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics)1,027 awards · $840.6 million
  5. 5Department of National Defence1,013 awards · $4.5 billion
  6. 6Société québécoise des infrastructures970 awards · $893.1 million
  7. 7Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics)951 awards · $662.5 million
  8. 8Department of Public Works and Government Services928 awards · $15.6 billion

Activity

Awards by year

Published awards in the last 6 years. The current year is partial.

  • 20216,783 · $2.8 billion
  • 20227,636 · $3.1 billion
  • 20238,546 · $4.6 billion
  • 20249,011 · $5.7 billion
  • 20257,654 · $7.4 billion
  • 20265,591 · $2.7 billion

Where the number of bidders was published, the median was 1.

Largest

Largest published awards

Latest

Recently awarded

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Source: Publicus procurement data as of October 26, 2026. Counts are published award notices grouped by the publisher's own commodity codes, or for the 19% with no code, categorised by Publicus from the award title; values are disclosed amounts in Canadian dollars, and undated awards are not counted, so totals are a floor.

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