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 and each analysis documents its method.
of public contracts awarded without a call for tenders
Ref. 160,508 contracts · 2021-2023 · recalculated 2026-08-13of calls for tenders attract only one bidder
Ref. 88,000 tenders · 2021-2024 · recalculated 2026-09-16Data: “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 analyses draw on the SEAO open datasets published on Données Québec. Each article states its scope, its cross-references and its limits, including what the data cannot measure. The full detail is in our editorial policy.
Method note, version 3 (13 August 2026)
Version 3 does not introduce windows by award date: the figures recalculated on 10 August 2026 under version 2 of our method already used them, and our note has said so since that date. Version 3 extends this convention to all our contract figures and recalculates them on data as of 7 August 2026. A contract is attached to the year in which it was awarded, not the year its result was published; counting remains by unique process. Our analyses built from the bids filed remain tied to the date the notice was published. Figures published under an earlier version remain readable with their own calculation date: we do not rewrite a past figure, we tell you which one you are reading.
The monthly Barometer is an exception: it files each contract in the month its result was published on SEAO, not in the month it was awarded. When SEAO completes a notice that is already published, the award month of the contract can change. On a monthly series, a contract already counted would then move from one month to another, and the published months would no longer be comparable with one another.
Method note, version 2
Figures within the certified scope recalculated on 10 August 2026 (method v2), on data as of 1 August 2026. The others keep the value of their last generation, stated in each analysis. Windows by award date; counting by process (one contract = one notice); competitive universe according to the award method declared on SEAO. Some amount indicators have been withdrawn from our pages pending a source consolidation. Open data from SEAO, Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor, CC BY 4.0 licence.
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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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