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Method: Emergency awards

Contracts awarded under the emergency or urgency exception.

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

  1. 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.