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Government market intelligence for businesses that sell to government
Publicus is your own government market analyst, showing you who is winning, what is renewing, and what buyers pay, so you go after the right contracts early and win more of them.
Your free trial includes a renewal and competitor report for two or three of your most important buyers.
Publicus listing contracts coming back to market in the next months, with the buyer, incumbent, value, and time left, including one the viewer's company holds.
Publicus is your own government market analyst. It shows businesses that sell to government who is winning in their market, which contracts are coming up for renewal, and what buyers are paying, alongside every live opportunity from hundreds of sources each morning.
- What you get: Renewal detection, competitor and incumbency analysis, pricing from past awards, buyer intelligence, and a personalized daily briefing of new opportunities.
- Pricing: $250/month per user (or $200/month billed annually). Free trial available, no credit card required.
- Time to value: Most teams are live within 24 hours and see matched opportunities the same day.
Sound familiar?
Why do vendors find government contracts too late?
Finding out too late
By the time an RFP is posted, the incumbent has had months to shape it. Teams that only learn about work from tender alerts are always starting behind.
Missed renewals, including your own
The most painful loss is a contract you held, because nobody tracked when it would come back to market.
Bidding without knowing the field
Who won last time, at what price, when it ends, and which competitors are gaining ground with the buyer. Without that, teams price and position on instinct.
No memory when people leave
Award history and competitor knowledge live in one proposal manager's head or inbox, and walk out the door with them.
Hours lost on portals
Someone still loses two to three hours a day checking a dozen or more websites, and keyword searches miss tenders with unusual titles or a competitor's brand name.
How Publicus helps
Know what is coming before the RFP drops
Publicus tells you which government contracts are coming back to market and who holds them today, so you can start preparing long before the RFP is posted.
01 · Renewals
Renewal detection
Every contract in your market that is coming back to market, with the buyer, incumbent, value, and expected end date, so you start positioning months before the RFP drops. That includes contracts you hold today.
Coming back to marketPublicus0 contracts in your market come back to market this year
- Network servicesProvince of Ontario · held by Northline · $8.4M9 months
- Help desk supportCity of Ottawa · held by Your company · $2.1M11 months
- Records managementRegion of Peel · held by Brightpath · $3.6M14 months
- Data centre hostingProvince of Nova Scotia · held by Clearway · $5.2M17 months
Start positioning months before the RFP drops, including on the contract you hold.
02 · Competitors
Who is winning what
For any buyer or category, see which vendors have won, how much, and how their share is changing, so you know where competitors are strong and where they are slipping.
Explore · BuyersPublicusCity of Toronto · IT professional services
Awards over the last three years · $121M across 64 contracts
Share of awards · change vs prior 3 years
- Northline34%-9 pts
- Brightpath27%+6 pts
- Your company14%+4 pts
- Clearway11%-2 pts
The incumbent is slipping here. This buyer is worth a push before its next renewal.
03 · Pricing
Pricing and incumbency
What buyers actually paid for comparable work, who holds the current contract, and every other contract they have with that buyer, so you price to win instead of guessing.
Explore · AwardsPublicusSimilar awards · last 3 years
- City of Hamilton$1.20M
- Region of Peel$1.45M
- City of Ottawa$1.60M
- Province of Ontario$1.90M
- City of Toronto (incumbent)$2.30M
Winning range: $1.40M to $1.70M. Comparable awards cluster here, while the incumbent's $2.30M sits well above them.
Incumbent contract
Expires in 4 months
Typical competition
3 bidders per award
04 · Every morning
Every live opportunity, every morning
A personalized briefing of new tenders from hundreds of portals, matched by AI that reads the whole posting rather than keywords, and routed to each seller by product and territory.
Morning briefingPublicusYour morning briefing6:40 AM · IT services · Ontario0 new matches- Cloud Infrastructure MigrationCity of Toronto · $1.8M92% fit
Cloud migration scope, Ontario delivery radius, and a similar past award.
- Security Monitoring ServicesEssex County School Board · $2.4M84% fit
Strong SOC and SIEM alignment. Protected B clearance required.
- IT Service Desk SupportCity of Ottawa · $890K78% fit
Good profile match, with incumbent pricing on file.
Federal and provincial split clearly, renewals called out early.
Qualify in minutes, not hours
- Key fit signals surfaced first: AI summaries pull what matters from long solicitations in seconds.
- Dealbreakers surfaced first: Security clearances, certifications, and geographic restrictions flagged immediately.
- Amendment tracking: Changes to posted opportunities are flagged and summarized automatically.
Shared pipeline tracker
- Kanban-style boards: Comments, next steps, and status tracking in one shared view.
- Multiple boards: Organize by vertical, region, or team.
- CRM-ready data: Push data to your CRM or export to CSV when opportunities move forward.
How we compare
Portals show what was posted today
Publicus shows what is coming, who holds it now, and what it sold for last time.
Tender alert tools
Tell you what was posted today.
Tells you what is coming, who holds it now, and what it sold for last time.
US-built market data tools
Built around the US market and priced for large research teams.
Covers Canadian buyers in depth, down to incumbents, amendments, and renewal dates, with live opportunities included.
Building it in-house
Portals change layouts and add CAPTCHAs constantly, and award data is messier than tenders.
Keeps collection and cleaning running and delivers clean data into whatever you build.
General AI tools
Summarize what they find online, with no history to answer from.
Answers from years of cleaned award, amendment, and pricing records.
Doing it by hand
A few days of digging before a big bid, if it happens at all.
Makes award research a search.
How to start
A free trial that shows your market first
Every trial includes a renewal and competitor report for two or three of your most important buyers: what is coming back to market, who holds it, and what it sold for.
Coming back to market
Who holds the work
Delivered however your team works
- The Publicus platform
- Custom reports on specific buyers or competitors
- A company-branded portal
- A daily email with a spreadsheet
- A data feed into your CRM or internal tools
About 30%
Pipeline growth for teams switching from manual tracking
5 to 10%
Higher win rate when you know incumbents, pricing, and renewals
87.5%
Faster qualification, from 8 hours to 1
<24h
From sign-up to first matched insights
From our users
The results speak for themselves
“Publicus has demonstrated speed, accuracy and flexibility in the reporting content they publish. Through their ongoing procurement analysis, Joe and the Publicus team have provided insightful data that has been extremely useful in helping me to better understand the buying patterns within the Federal Government.”
Susan CowanPublic Sector Lead, LevioPublic & Government Affairs · Ottawa
“We have greatly benefited from Publicus' procurement monitoring service and have valued our work with a highly client-centric team that continually looks for ways to improve the service and increase its value. Their procurement, spend and contract analysis has been invaluable to many of our clients, providing timely, actionable intelligence that strengthens decision-making and creates a meaningful competitive advantage in their respective public-sector markets.”
Patrice CollinVice President, Public & Government Affairs, EdelmanGovernment Contractor · Professional Services
“Publicus has demonstrated speed, accuracy and flexibility in the reporting content they publish. Through their ongoing procurement analysis, Joe and the Publicus team have provided insightful data that has been extremely useful in helping me to better understand the buying patterns within the Federal Government.”
Susan CowanPublic Sector Lead, LevioGovernment Contractor · Defence
“Every time I go in, I see something beneficial. I love the emails because that's exactly what our team does. So why would you pay two people to do that twice a day when it can be automated.”
Nancy EmeryDirector, Sales Governance, CalianGovernment Contractor · Consulting
“We grew our pipeline by a third, and our BD team didn't grow at all. Publicus surfaces opportunities we would have missed across jurisdictions we weren't monitoring.”
Nick LikoSales Manager, Horizant Solutions
Who it's for
Built for teams that sell to government
CEOs and Managing Partners
One extra contract win pays for Publicus ten times over
- Wearing every hat: You oversee both BD and proposals, and you're checking portals yourself because no one else will
- Clear ROI: One extra contract win per year pays for Publicus ten times over
- Mornings back: Stop losing your first hours to portal searches
Business Development Directors
Drive pipeline growth without adding headcount
- Pipeline, not logistics: One view of every opportunity worth pursuing so you can focus on the bids you will win
- Team visibility: See what every team member is pursuing, reviewing, and closing
- Growth without headcount: Scale your government BD without adding staff
Proposal Managers
Faster qualification, shared pipeline
- Time reclaimed: Consolidated search and AI summaries that extract the requirements that matter
- Faster qualification: 100-page solicitations become clear bid/no-bid decisions in minutes
- Shared pipeline: A tracker your whole team works from, with comments, documents, and status
Pricing
Pricing that pays for itself with one contract win
$250
per month, per user
$200/month per user billed annually. Team pricing on request.
Full access to sources, daily briefings, AI qualification, pipeline tracker, and document requests. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
- Hundreds of government sources in one feed
- AI-powered bid/no-bid qualification
- Personalized daily email briefings
- Shared pipeline tracker with Kanban boards
- Award intelligence and competitor tracking
- Document request automation
- Push data to your CRM or export to CSV
FAQ
Common questions from businesses
We mainly need alerts. Why the analytics?
Start there, since every plan includes a daily briefing of new opportunities. Most teams find the bigger return comes from knowing what is renewing and who holds it, because that is where you get ahead of an RFP instead of reacting to it.
We already have someone checking the portals. What would we gain?
Portal checking only shows what was posted today. Publicus shows what is coming back to market, who holds it now, and what it sold for last time. Run a trial side by side and we will add a renewal and competitor view for your top buyers, which is the part a portal search cannot give you.
We are building our own tool. Can we use your data instead?
Yes. Keeping scrapers running is the hard part, since portals change layouts and add CAPTCHAs all the time, and award data is messier still. Most teams get more value building on clean data, so we can send opportunities and award history in the format your tool needs.
How accurate are the competitor and pricing insights?
We hold award data for every buyer we cover, including who won, the value, and pricing where the government publishes it. Every figure traces back to its government source, so accuracy is limited only by what the government publishes.
Can we take our person off manual portal checking?
Enterprises like Calian, Dexterra, and Visa rely on Publicus every day. Everything links back to the original posting, and the trial lets you confirm coverage against your own process first.
Buyers use our competitors' brand names. Will a keyword search miss those tenders?
Publicus does not rely on keywords. Our AI reads the title, description, and buyer together, so a tender written around a competitor's brand still reaches the right person on your team.
Will our sellers get too many emails?
No. Each seller receives only the few opportunities that fit their products and territory, and the proposal team gets the full list with a column showing who was sent each one.
Do you get the tender documents?
Where documents are public we collect them automatically. Otherwise we link straight to the posting, and each user can ask us to pull down up to five documents a month.
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How does the AI qualification work?
Our AI reviews each opportunity, matches it against your company profile, and highlights the signals that matter for a bid/no-bid decision. You get a fit score, go-to-market context, and a clear explanation of why an opportunity deserves attention.
What if I'm a solo consultant?
Solo consultants are some of our most active users. Publicus finds niche opportunities you'd otherwise miss across the market, without hours of checking sources by hand. At $250/month, one saved hour per week more than justifies the cost. One extra contract win per year makes it a no-brainer.
Can I try it before committing?
Yes. We offer a free trial with full access to the platform. Most teams see their first matched opportunities within 24 hours of signing up.
Do I need to sit through a demo?
No. Start a free trial and explore on your own. If you want stronger matches from day one, book a 15-minute demo and we will configure the platform to your industry, geography, and contract size.
What government sources does Publicus cover?
Over 200 federal, provincial, municipal, and MASH-sector procurement sources across Canada, including many smaller systems most vendors do not monitor consistently. We add new sources continuously.
How is Publicus different from an individual procurement portal?
An individual procurement portal shows opportunities from its own network. Publicus aggregates across the market and adds intelligence on top: fit scoring, competitive analysis from historical awards, vendor analytics, renewal visibility, and pricing context.
Can Publicus help me find subcontracting opportunities?
Yes. Our award intelligence tracks which prime contractors win large government contracts, what categories they win in, and when those contracts come up for renewal. This helps smaller firms identify primes who may need subcontractors for upcoming work.
Can Publicus help me find contract renewals before they rebid?
Yes. Every contract in your market that is coming back to market appears with the buyer, incumbent, value, and expected end date, including contracts you hold today, so you start positioning months before the RFP drops instead of the day it appears.
Can Publicus show what competitors are charging?
Yes. Publicus tracks contract awards and pricing context across the jurisdictions we monitor, so your team can understand who is winning, where they are winning, and what the market appears to support on price.
Does Publicus cover municipal procurement?
Yes. We cover dozens of municipal procurement systems across Canada, including many smaller municipalities that do not appear in the places most vendors monitor first. Municipal procurement is often where strong opportunities appear with less competition and faster timelines.
Can I track my competitors' government contract wins?
Yes. Publicus tracks contract awards across all jurisdictions we monitor. You see which competitors are winning in your service categories, at what price points, and from which departments. That is the foundation of our award intelligence.
How quickly will I see results?
Most teams are live within 24 hours and see matched opportunities the same day. Within the first week, you'll have a clear picture of every relevant government opportunity across Canada that matches your profile.
How do I find government RFPs in Canada?
Government RFPs in Canada are published across hundreds of federal, provincial, municipal, and sector-specific sources. Publicus aggregates them into a single searchable feed so you do not have to check each one individually.
What is the best way to search for government contracts in Canada?
The most effective approach is semantic search across the full market simultaneously. Publicus uses AI-powered search that understands intent, not just keywords, so you find opportunities even when different sources use different terminology for the same services.
How do I qualify for government contracts as a small business?
Small businesses can win government contracts by focusing on opportunities that match their specific capabilities, experience, and geography. Publicus helps you focus on the right opportunities earlier, with fit signals, pricing context, and renewal visibility before you invest time in a response.
Why not rely on a single procurement source?
A single procurement source only shows one slice of the market. Publicus gives you a broader market view across hundreds of sources, then layers in fit signals, renewal visibility, pricing context, and competitive intelligence so your team can act earlier.
How do I get notified about new government RFPs?
Publicus sends personalized daily email briefings every morning with new opportunities matched to your industry, geography, and capabilities. Each opportunity includes key deadlines, market context, and a match score explaining why it fits your profile.
Can I export opportunities into my CRM?
Yes. Teams can push opportunity data into their CRM or export it to CSV when a pursuit moves forward. That makes it easier to connect Publicus with the way your BD team already works.
What does government procurement intelligence mean?
Procurement intelligence goes beyond just finding RFPs. It includes understanding who wins contracts, at what prices, which departments are contracting more, when contracts come up for renewal, and where your competitors are active. This intelligence helps you make better bid/no-bid decisions and position strategically.
Does Publicus help with standing offers and supply arrangements?
Yes. Publicus tracks the broader government market, including the opportunities, awards, vendor activity, and renewal patterns that matter around standing offers, supply arrangements, and related procurement vehicles.
Can Publicus help me win more government contracts?
Yes. Teams that switch from manual tracking grow their government pipeline by about 30%, and teams that know incumbents, pricing, and renewals ahead of time lift win rates by 5 to 10%. Horizant Solutions grew its pipeline by a third without adding anyone to its BD team.
Does Publicus work for IT consulting firms?
Yes. IT consulting is one of the largest categories in Canadian government procurement. Publicus covers IT-related RFPs across federal, provincial, and municipal governments, including specialized sources many firms do not monitor consistently.
Does Publicus work for proposal managers and BD teams?
Yes. Proposal managers use Publicus to qualify opportunities faster and avoid wasted work. BD teams use it to build pipeline, monitor renewals, track competitor movement, and prioritize the right accounts and buyers.
How much does it cost to find government RFPs?
Managing multiple subscriptions and manual monitoring gets expensive quickly, and you still miss opportunities outside the sources you watch. Publicus is $250/month for a single user and covers hundreds of sources with AI-powered matching and intelligence included.
What security clearance do I need for government contracts?
Security clearance requirements vary by contract. Federal contracts often require Reliability Status or Secret clearance. Publicus extracts these requirements from RFP documents automatically, so you know before investing time whether you meet the security requirements.
How do I track government contract awards in Canada?
Publicus tracks contract awards across all jurisdictions we monitor, including federal proactive disclosure data. You see who won, at what price, from which department, and when the contract expires. This is essential for competitive positioning and identifying subcontracting opportunities.
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