Why people look at this
When one company gets most of a body's business, the body depends on it and prices face less pressure.
How it is worked out
- Provincial awards from 2021 on, grouped by public body.
- Flagged when one supplier holds at least 50% of the body's awarded dollars, the body awarded at least $250,000 in total, and at least three awards are involved.
Data used
What it cannot tell you
Small bodies with one big contract will show up here for ordinary reasons.
The Open Contracting Partnership's guide to red flags puts it this way: a red flag is not evidence that anything wrong happened. It points at something that may be worth a closer look.
This page and the calculation are generated from one definition, so they cannot drift apart. See the results.