Federal Government Contracts and Grants

The Government of Canada's proactive disclosure of contracts and of grants and contributions, published by each department. Contracts over $10,000 are disclosed quarterly; grants and contributions are disclosed on their own schedules.

Because departments publish on a quarterly cycle. A contract commonly becomes public 31 to 90 days after it was awarded, and sometimes considerably later, so the newest thing on the record is rarely the newest thing that happened.

An amendment restates a contract's value rather than adding to it, so counting both the original and its amendments double-counts the money. Amendments are ranked against the contract they amend and only the current version is totalled.

No. A disclosed contract is a commitment with a ceiling value. Actual payments can be lower if the work was not fully drawn down, and the proactive disclosure record does not report what was finally paid.