Terms of Sale

Per-unit services: the match report and the assessment
Version 3.1, effective July 17, 2026
Unofficial translation for consultation only. The French version is the only contractual version and prevails.

These terms govern the purchase, from Adjudica, of a per-unit service chosen at the time of ordering: a match report or an assessment. You accept them at the time of payment, by checking the box provided for that purpose. You can review, download and keep them before ordering. We have kept them short and readable. If anything seems unclear, write to us at info@adjudica.ca before ordering.

1. Who sells

The service is offered by Groupe Noos inc., a Québec corporation (NEQ 1180857972) doing business under the brand Adjudica. Its registered office is at 855, rue du Boisé, Granby (Québec) J2J 2X4. You can reach it at info@adjudica.ca. In these terms, "Adjudica" and "we" mean Groupe Noos inc.; "you" means the client.

2. What you buy

You choose one of the following two products at the time of ordering.

The match report is the analysis of a specific public tender you are targeting, from the history of contracts concluded and published on SEAO: the businesses usually observed with the contracting authority, the public record of eligible competing businesses, the calculable spreads on comparable contracts, the buyer's award history, an indicator of concentration or of incumbent recurrence where applicable, and the limits of what the data allows us to assert. This indicator is not a conclusion as to any irregular conduct.

The assessment is the retrospective analysis of the 18 months preceding the date of your order, for the business you represent. It presents the unsuccessful bids for which a spread can be calculated from the published amounts, the awards where the selected supplier did not show the lowest published price, the recurring eligible competing businesses, the wins found over the same period, the incumbent supplier's retention rate in your sector according to the method described in the assessment, and the limits of SEAO's publications. The fact that a selected supplier does not show the lowest published price does not, on its own, allow a conclusion of irregularity: it may result from compliance, quality, lots or the award method.

The market data analyzed comes exclusively from the public SEAO resources identified in the document. The reconciliations, calculations, indicators and inferences are created by Adjudica and are not themselves data published by SEAO. The assessment is produced without any non-public information from you or from another client.

The report and the assessment are descriptive information documents. The page of the chosen product, adjudica.ca/en/offer for the report or adjudica.ca/en/assessment for the assessment, presents the service and its limits before payment. Only these terms have contractual value. In the event of a discrepancy between a page of the site and these terms, these terms prevail.

3. Who the service is for

The service is offered only to businesses, to persons who operate a business, and to their authorized representatives, for the purposes of their activities. It is not intended for personal, family or household use. By ordering, you declare and warrant that you are acting in the course of your business, commercial or professional activities, and acquiring the product solely for those purposes.

The assessment concerns the public history, on SEAO, of the business you represent. By ordering an assessment, you declare that you represent that business or are authorized by it to request this assessment, and that you provide accurate and complete information about its identity. You provide the legal name of the business and, on request, its NEQ where it has one.

We may verify the information provided, ask for a clarification, in particular in the case of businesses with a similar name, and refuse or cancel an order that does not meet the criteria of this clause. If you provided accurate and complete information, an order refused on this ground is refunded in full. If the refusal results from an inaccurate declaration or a material omission on your part, clause 5 applies.

4. Order, price and payment

You order online. The order requires your email and the legal name of the business for which you are acting.

For a match report, you also provide a valid SEAO notice number. It is the tender the report will analyze. The price of the report is CAD 490, before taxes.

For an assessment, the legal name provided identifies the business whose public history will be analyzed. Its NEQ or its region, if you know them, help to rule out any confusion with a business of similar name. The price of the assessment is CAD 150, before taxes.

Any orientation field presented at payment is optional. You must not enter in it any future price, cost, margin, capacity, bidding intention, strategy or other non-public competitive information. We may delete such information and refuse or suspend the order.

GST at a rate of 5% and QST at a rate of 9.975% are added to the price. The total, including taxes, is shown to you before payment and appears on the invoice. Payment is processed by our payment platform, Stripe. Full card numbers are handled by Stripe and are not kept by Adjudica.

5. Delivery

We deliver the product by email to the address provided at the time of the order.

We deliver the match report no later than the end of the first business day following a valid order.

We deliver the assessment no later than the end of the second business day following a valid order.

A business day means a weekday from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays in Québec. An order is valid when payment is authorized and all the information required for the chosen product has been provided.

If the engagement requires more time, or if the public sources are temporarily unavailable, we tell you as soon as possible and before the delivery deadline. We agree with you on a new timeline or on cancellation with a refund.

You may cancel before delivery by writing to us. If you request cancellation after production has begun, we may retain the reasonable value of the work already done and the expenses actually incurred. We refund you the excess.

6. Award method and price limits

The match report is built for contracts awarded to the lowest compliant bidder. If the notice you entrust to us is instead awarded by a selection committee, with the scoring of a quality mark, the report does not apply to your case. We check the award method upon receiving your order, before any production.

If your notice falls under a committee, we tell you and you choose one of the following two options: a full refund of the amount actually charged for the report, including taxes, with reactivation of any commercial credit applied to that report; or a credit equal to the pre-tax price of the report toward the notice of your choice. This second credit replaces any commercial credit applied to the report and is valid for 12 months from your order. As long as it has not been used, you may instead request the refund of the amount actually charged and the reactivation of the initial commercial credit. The expiry limits only the 12-month credit option and does not remove your right to the refund of the amount charged.

The assessment reads what SEAO publishes. If your contracts are awarded mostly by selection committee, price spreads are generally not published there. Your assessment will show it as such, and it will tell you less. This limit does not, on its own, constitute grounds for a refund, since the assessment is nonetheless produced and delivered. The accuracy guarantee in clause 7 continues to apply.

7. Accuracy guarantee

Every figure and every factual item that we reproduce or compute in a document are verified against the source data at the time of producing it, and their provenance is stated. If you demonstrate that a data point in the document is wrong, the product concerned is refunded.

A wrong data point means a numerical or factual item that we have reproduced, extracted or transcribed in the document, or a mechanical calculation error, where the error is objectively verifiable from the identified public source as it existed at the document's date. A wrong data point also includes attributing a contract to the wrong business where the accurate information provided at the time of the order reasonably allowed the intended business to be identified, as well as the incorrect application of a formula or matching rule announced in the document.

Not covered: evaluative judgments, readings of competition, benchmarks, inferences and methodological choices; the lack of completeness that results from gaps in the public source, from variations in a business's name, or from a methodological limit expressly stated in the document; gaps or errors in the public source itself and its later corrections; and the information you provide to us.

You send us your claim by email, with written proof of the error, within 30 days of the document's delivery. This period frames only the contractual guarantee set out in this clause. It does not alter the limitation periods provided by law and does not limit remedies that the law does not allow to be restricted.

Anyone may also report a factual error to info@adjudica.ca. We verify the report from the identified sources and the applicable method. If a correction is required, we produce a corrected version, identify the superseded version and transmit the corrected version to the client, who must stop using the superseded version. This procedure does not limit any remedy provided by law and does not make the person who reports the error a party to the order.

8. What our analyses are, and are not

The report and the assessment are descriptive information drawn from public data, intended to inform your business decisions. They constitute neither legal advice, nor financial or accounting advice, nor investment advice, nor a recommendation to bid or to abstain, nor a price to bid. They guarantee no award outcome. Your business decisions are yours: whether to bid, the content of your bid, your price, your margins and the measures you take on reading the document. We document the ground from public data. The decision remains yours.

9. Our liability

Subject to what the law prohibits from excluding or limiting, in particular liability for intentional fault or gross fault in the cases provided by article 1474 of the Civil Code of Québec, liability for bodily or moral injury, the mandatory obligations relating to the protection of personal information and the remedies that the law makes mandatory, and subject to the accuracy guarantee in clause 7, which constitutes your contractual remedy for a demonstrated data error, our total liability relating to a product, whether contractual or extracontractual, is limited to the amount you paid for that product.

The refund of a product under clause 7 is applied against this limit. The accuracy guarantee and this cap do not accumulate for the same error.

We are not liable for indirect, consequential, special or punitive damages, in particular a loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, contract or chance, your internal costs, your bid preparation costs, or a decision of a contracting authority, a rejection or a non-award.

Each limit and each exclusion in this clause applies independently of the others and survives even if one of them is held invalid or unenforceable. No limit in this clause covers what the law prohibits from excluding or limiting. This clause governs only the relations between you and Adjudica. It does not limit any right or remedy of a person who is not a party to the order.

10. Use of the delivered document

The document is delivered for your internal use. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and permanent license to use and reproduce the document internally, subject to any corrected version that replaces it. Without our written consent, you may not resell it, publish it, or redistribute it outside your business.

Occasional sharing with a consortium partner, a subcontractor or an advisor bound by confidentiality is permitted for a specific bid or a decision directly related to the service purchased. You remain responsible for the use made of it by the persons to whom you give access. You must keep the notices of source, date, method and limits, and may not modify, extract or cite the document in a misleading manner.

You may not use the document to agree on, coordinate or signal with a competitor a price, a bid, a margin, a capacity, an abstention from bidding, a client, a territory or any other conduct contrary to competition law.

11. Sources and attribution

Our analyses rely on the open data of SEAO, published by the Government of Québec on Données Québec under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Each document identifies the source, the date of consultation and the license, links to the source and the license where reasonably possible, and states that the selection, processing and analysis are carried out by Adjudica.

We claim no right in the raw public data, which anyone remains free to consult. No affiliation with or approval by the Government of Québec, SEAO or a public body is implied.

12. Confidentiality and separation

We disclose to no other client and to no competitor your interest in a notice, the fact that you have ordered a product, or the information you provide to us. We do not reveal to a client that a competitor uses the service, the notices it monitors or the analyses it orders. We do not use in a client's document any information provided by another client, even in aggregated, anonymized or de-identified form. Communications necessary to our suppliers and advisors, those provided for in clause 13 and those required by law remain permitted, subject to the applicable confidentiality obligations.

The service is exclusive to no one. Other businesses, including competitors, may order an analysis based on the same notice or the same public data. We apply a strict separation between clients.

For your part, you must not transmit to us non-public information about your future prices, costs, margins, capacities, bidding intentions or strategies. This prohibition also applies to free-text fields, attachments and optional answers. We may delete or isolate such information, suspend production, refuse the order and take any reasonable measure to preserve the integrity of public procurement.

13. Personal information

We collect the following order information: your email; the legal name of the business for which you are acting; for a report, the SEAO notice number; and your optional answer to the orientation question shown at payment. You must not enter in this answer any non-public competitive information referred to in clause 12. This answer may be left blank with no effect on the purchase.

To produce the document, we consult the relevant SEAO publications, reconcile name variants and create the calculations, indicators and inferences described in clause 2. To verify the identity and legal form of a business, we may consult a public registry; we do not reproduce in the assessment the information from that registry.

Our payment provider also collects the cardholder's name, the billing postal code and the data necessary for the transaction. Adjudica receives the transaction and billing information necessary for the order, for proof of payment and for the invoice. Adjudica neither receives nor keeps the full card number.

To the extent that this information concerns a natural person, we collect it through the order form and, where needed, through our exchanges with you. We use it to verify the professional character and the validity of the order, produce and deliver the document, process payment, invoice, apply taxes and credits, provide support, handle correction requests, ensure security, keep our records and administer the contractual relationship. The optional answer serves to orient the service purchased and to understand the need expressed. It is not used for another purpose without the information or consent required by law.

The person responsible for the protection of personal information at Groupe Noos inc. is its president, reachable at info@adjudica.ca.

We share the information necessary with our payment, hosting and email providers for the sole purposes related to their services. We may also share it with our advisors bound by confidentiality or where the law requires it. Some information may be processed or stored outside Québec. Before such a communication, we carry out the evaluation required by law and put in place the appropriate contractual and security measures.

We keep the information for as long as necessary for the stated purposes and for our contractual, tax, accounting, evidentiary and security obligations. We then destroy or anonymize it in accordance with the law. You may ask for details on the applicable periods.

The processing is described in more detail in our privacy policy. You may request access to your personal information, its rectification and, where the law provides, a copy in a structured and commonly used technological format. You may also withdraw an applicable consent or file a complaint by writing to info@adjudica.ca. Withdrawing a consent may prevent the provision of the service where a piece of information is necessary. It does not end the uses, communications or retention that the law permits or requires.

14. Commercial credits

If you order a match report within 30 calendar days following the order of an assessment that has not been refunded, the pre-tax amount actually paid for that assessment, up to CAD 150, is applied once as a credit toward the pre-tax price of the report.

A continuous service exists, by subscription, for businesses that bid regularly. It is discussed by email and is subject to separate terms. If you enter into the continuous-service agreement within 30 calendar days following the order of your first match report, and if that report has not been refunded, the pre-tax amount you actually paid for that report and for any assessment whose credit was applied to that report, up to CAD 490, is credited toward the continuous service.

A credit may be applied at the time of the order or after verification of your eligibility. Taxes are adjusted on the net amount. Credits are not redeemable for cash, transferable or refundable, except by written agreement to the contrary. A credit cannot exceed the amount due and cannot be used more than once.

If a product paid in part by a credit is subsequently refunded, the amount actually charged is refunded and the applied credit is reactivated for 30 calendar days from the refund, subject to the particular rule in clause 6. If the order that generated a credit is itself refunded, the credit is cancelled. A refund and a credit arising from the same amount do not accumulate. If the credit has already been used when the refund becomes due, its value is deducted from the refund, except where the law prohibits it.

15. Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws applicable in Québec. Any legal proceeding relating to an order is brought in Québec, before the court having territorial jurisdiction under the Code of Civil Procedure, subject to public-order rules.

16. Language

The French version of these terms and of the documents relating to them is provided to you before ordering, in a form that can be consulted, downloaded and printed. The French version is the only contractual version and prevails.

An English version may be offered for consultation only. It must be identified as a non-contractual translation, does not replace the French version and is not the accepted version. The parties can be bound by another version only following a distinct express intention expressed after the French version has been provided.

17. Changes to the terms

We may change these terms. Each version is dated and numbered. The version in effect at the time of your order is the one that applies to that order. Changes apply only to orders placed after they take effect. We keep a copy of each applicable version.

18. Severability

If a provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is reduced to the minimum necessary to the extent permitted by law, or it is severed, without affecting the validity of the other provisions.

Adjudica is a brand of Groupe Noos inc. For any question about these terms: info@adjudica.ca.