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Card 686 of 9782026-10-05 issue

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Who Actually Gets Canada's Public Contracts?

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The Public Service Institute publishes data-driven research on Canadian procurement, including contract concentration, bidding competition, and challenges to awards.

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The homepage lists 11 publications spanning federal awards, Quebec tenders, CITT challenges, regional patterns, and Indigenous-business flags.

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The research list separates federal awards, Quebec tenders, CITT complaints, regional markets, and specific topics such as Indigenous-business flags into distinct publications. The homepage reports 405,956 Quebec tenders with named bidders and says its analysis found exactly one bid in 67.4% of them. It describes the figures as reproducible from published datasets, though the extracted page does not show the data or methods in detail.

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