Québec public procurement, in data
Adjudica analyzes the SEAO open data published by the Government of Québec: hundreds of thousands of contracts and bids, cross-referenced to answer the questions SMEs actually ask. Every figure is sourced, every method is documented.
Data: “Système électronique d’appel d’offres (SEAO)”, Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor, on Données Québec under the CC BY 4.0 licence; Adjudica analysis and calculations.
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Our method
Our analyses draw on the SEAO open datasets published on Données Québec. Each article states its scope, its cross-references and its limits: what can't be measured is said plainly. The full detail is in our editorial policy.
Data reuse and licence
Adjudica reuses open data released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence. The figures shown result from our own extraction, cleaning and analysis; they are not official publications of the organizations responsible for the datasets.
Data source
Dataset: “Système électronique d’appel d’offres (SEAO)”, published by the Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor (Québec Treasury Board Secretariat), released on Données Québec under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
Processing: data extracted, cleaned and analysed by Adjudica; the figures shown result from this processing and are not an official SEAO publication. See our data.
Data source
Datasets: City of Montréal contract records, released as open data by the Ville de Montréal under the CC BY 4.0 licence: city council and agglomeration council contracts, borough council contracts and contracts authorized by public servants.
Processing: data extracted, cleaned and analysed by Adjudica; the figures shown result from this processing and are not an official publication of the Ville de Montréal. See our data.
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