Why people look at this
Emergency buying skips competition by design. How often a body uses it, and for what, is a common question.
How it is worked out
- Provincial awards citing clause 6(a)(iv), emergency or situation of urgency.
Data used
What it cannot tell you
The reports give a short description, not the nature of the emergency.
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.