Selection and location evidence
An address selects a federal record; it does not establish where the work, benefit or spending occurred. Whole reported values are shown; no NL share is inferred. Conflicting address fields are labelled. We retain the source’s country, province, postal code, delivery regions, bilingual comments, project narratives, coverage and expected results. Generic programme purpose and supplier addresses do not establish an individual project’s location. Reviewed project decisions retain their evidence and stop the rebuild if that evidence changes. Unreviewed prose stays unknown. A local project identifies the whole commitment, not amount paid. A jurisdiction’s receipt does not establish its later spending.
Contracts over $10,000
- Keep rows with a valid Canadian NL postal prefix or full postal code and whose reported vendor country is Canada or unstated. Two placeholder records ("Company XYZ") are dropped.
- Group rows by procurement identifier and cleaned vendor name, across departments. A reviewed name change joins only the matching department, procurement, original start and original value; a shared number or similar name alone does not join contracts. Earlier source references, names and values remain as provenance. Some some Coast Guard purchase orders are reported by both Fisheries and Oceans and National Defence. Rows with no procurement identifier stay on their own.
- Keep the latest row in each group (by reporting period, then contract date). Its contract value is the running total after all amendments.
As published: 10,549 rows, $12,684,705,262. Counted once: 9,108 contracts, $2,626,258,431. "Non-competitive" means the department coded the solicitation procedure TN.
Grants and contributions
A grant value is the agreement value: the amount a department commits in a grant or contribution agreement. One agreement can run several years, so a value is not one year's spending and not the amount paid out.
How amendments are counted
Each amendment is a new row. The Treasury Board data dictionary says the row's agreement value is "the total grant or contribution value, and not the change in agreement value". Most departments follow it, and several say so in their notes: the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ("the previous value was $X", which matches the row before), Health Canada ("The total agreement value previously disclosed has been updated"), the National Research Council ("The total amended value is"), Innovation, Science and Economic Development ("value changed from X to Y"). For these the latest amendment is the agreement's value.
Four departments report each amendment as the change in value instead. For these every row of the agreement is added up.
From their first quarter of 2026-27, Indigenous Services and Crown-Indigenous Relations report the agreement's new total instead. A Crown-Indigenous Relations row noting that "the total award value of $2,945,966.00 reported in a previous quarter has been reduced" now carries $2,901,754, the reduced total, where earlier rows with that note carried the negative change. Such a row replaces the rows before it for the same agreement, grant and contribution counted separately. The table below uses only the rows from before the change.
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| Department | Evidence in its own rows | Rows added up | Latest row only | Paid 2021-22 to 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Services Canada | Negative amendment rows. Late amendments are noted "Funding of $X actually awarded", where X is the row's own value. The 2024-25 child and family services agreement with the province adds to $54,115,591 across four rows, the amount Public Accounts shows paid that year. | $1.5 billion | $124 million | $933 million |
| Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada | Negative rows noted "The total award value of $X reported in a previous quarter has been reduced by this Amendment". Late amendments are noted "Funding of $X actually awarded", where X is the row's own value. | $1.2 billion | $186 million | $627 million |
| Canadian Heritage | Every row is amendment 0 under a new reference number. The 2020-2024 official languages agreement with the province (1337983) has rows of $12.7M, $8.7M and $0.4M; their sum matches the $21.7M paid to the province in 2021-22 to 2023-24. | $188 million | $144 million | $79 million |
| Public Health Agency of Canada | Late amendments are noted "Funding of $X actually awarded", where X is the row's own value. Extensions add half the original value (1718-HQ-000283: $1,672,840, then $836,420 when two years were added). | $51 million | $29.6 million | $33.5 million |
The last column is what the department paid NL recipients in four fiscal years, from the Public Accounts transfer payments (payments of $100,000 or more). Indigenous Services and Crown-Indigenous Relations paid more in those four years than their latest rows add up to for every year on file, so those rows cannot be agreement totals. If Canadian Heritage and the Public Health Agency were read as reporting totals, the grants total would be $64.9 million lower.
Grouping rows into agreements
- Rows are grouped by department, agreement number and recipient. Spelling, punctuation and legal suffixes in the recipient's name are ignored, and "English name|French name" is the same recipient as the English name alone.
- A recipient renamed on an amendment (a new legal name, a transfer to a successor) stays in the same agreement. Rows under another name with a different program and start date are a different agreement that shares the number.
- Rows with no agreement number are one agreement each, except where a department reports an amendment under a new reference number (Infrastructure Canada, Veterans Affairs): those join on recipient, start date, program and title.
As published: 37,611 rows, $13,395,763,700. Counted once: 30,767 agreements, $8,673,539,894. The code is parse_federal.py.
CanadaBuys award notices
Grouped by reference number and supplier, latest amendment kept. The same contract can appear here and in the contracts disclosure. Notices are excluded from supplier commitment summaries and shown separately in source and body summaries. Any retained combined body amount is an overlapping record-value sum, not spending. Foreign and unstated currency never enter CAD totals.