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The Procurement Institution’s guide to Canadian public procurement

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A free, self-directed course and primer library on Canadian public procurement, from finding tenders to preparing bids and weighing challenges.

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For: Small suppliers weighing Canadian public-sector bids
Worth noticing: Its compiled record covers 1,313,281 federal awards and roughly 400,081 Québec tenders with published methods.

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The syllabus moves from finding opportunities and decoding RFI, RFQ, and RFP documents to competition analysis, bid/no-bid decisions, proposal compliance, incumbent displacement, and bid challenges. The homepage says its examples use a compiled record of federal awards, Québec tenders, and tribunal cases. It also describes the course as roughly nine hours of reading and exercises, while individual primer reading times are shown on the page.

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