A supplier page represents the organisation the publisher named, not a verified tax registrant. Conflicting business numbers alone do not split a page. A split also needs disjoint postal-code or locality evidence, or a named source identifying different organisations. Overlapping location sets and missing addresses do not establish disagreement. Every later join checks the same evidence across both whole groups.
Joined records retain every published business number; conflicts are listed on the supplier page. Where a printed name still has several pieces, each page links the others with their own included and excluded totals and says when identity is unresolved. One piece is not the organisation's whole record.
When names are joined
- Split evidence. Conflicting numbers split a printed name when its location evidence also disagrees or a named source identifies different organisations. An unnumbered record joins a piece only when its location identifies that piece uniquely; otherwise it remains unresolved.
- Same name. Case, accents, apostrophes, punctuation, spacing and legal suffixes (Inc., Ltd., Limited, Corp., Ltée) are set aside, and NL and Nfld are read as the province's name. Anything after "o/a", "c/o" or "formerly" is dropped: the record belongs to the legal name before it.
- Bilingual. Federal grant records print a recipient as "English name|French name". Both halves are the same recipient.
- Business number. Federal grant records with the same valid business number are joined when the names are a spelling slip apart, or one name is inside the other and adds only words such as Inc., Association or Council. Department placeholders (000000000, 1000xxxxx) fail the number's check digit and are ignored. Full charity accounts are kept as evidence: a church or club can hold one for each branch, but an account conflict still needs location or named-source evidence to split a page.
- Postal code. Federal records with the same postal code are joined when the names are a spelling slip apart with the same initials, subject to the location and named-source conflict guard.
- Same award. A federal contract and a CanadaBuys notice with the same award date and the same value to the cent are one award, so their close names are one supplier.
- Department or campus. A department, faculty or campus printed after its body's name ("Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Education") is part of that body.
- Reviewed. A short list of decisions, each with its reason, for matches the rules above cannot make: a renamed body, a misprint in a provincial report, a trading name.
When names are kept apart
- Close names with no evidence. Two different companies shown as one is worse than one company shown twice.
- Operating names. "Cavendish Hotel LP o/a Sheraton" is not joined to other Sheraton records: franchise names are shared by different owners.
- A company and its limited partnership, and a parent and its subsidiary, unless a reviewed decision gives the reason.
- A French name printed with more than one English name, or a placeholder such as N/A.
- Names that share a business number but not a name: a parent body's number can cover separate branches.
Totals
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. Only supported CAD amounts enter CAD totals. Native currency, missing-value coverage, source, amount kind, periods and separately evidenced location remain in the breakdown. No mixed supplier total gets provincial scaling.
A supplier's total is the sum of included record values across all years, whichever name they were printed under. Award and contract values are commitments, grant agreement values can span several years, and payments are amounts reported as paid. Sources can overlap, so this is not a deduplicated spending total. Public Accounts payment lines and CanadaBuys notices are listed separately and excluded because these sources can overlap contracts and grants; that policy does not establish that an individual record is a duplicate.
The numbers
12,958 distinct names become 12,247 suppliers: 711 names are joined to another on the evidence above. 3,474 close names are kept apart.
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| Supplier | Names | Records | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | 16 | 299 | $1.6 billion |
| Nunatsiavut Government | 6 | 247 | $1.2 billion |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | 22 | 889 | $379 million |
| Mushuau Innu First Nation | 2 | 84 | $305 million |
| St. John's Dockyard | 2 | 71 | $269 million |
| Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation | 3 | 116 | $233 million |
| Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band | 7 | 155 | $196 million |
| Association for New Canadians | 2 | 168 | $154 million |
| Microsoft Canada Inc. | 3 | 41 | $141 million |
| RJG CONSTRUCTION LTD | 2 | 59 | $123 million |
| Braya Renewable Fuels (Newfoundland) LP | 2 | 5 | $111 million |
| City of St. John's | 5 | 119 | $98.7 million |
| NUNATUKAVUT COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC. | 2 | 240 | $79.3 million |
| NARL MARKETING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | 2 | 455 | $68.9 million |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 2 | 20 | $63.9 million |
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| Name | Other name | Why not joined |
|---|---|---|
| NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY | Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Justice and Public Safety | one name inside the other (often a parent and its subsidiary or branch) |
| TOWN OF GRAND FALLS- WINDSOR | Town of Grand Falls-Windsor | conflicting identifiers and disjoint postal evidence; identity unresolved unless a named anchor settles it (town of grand falls windsor / town of grand falls windsor [bn 108126749]) |
| GE Healthcare | GE Healthcare Canada | one name inside the other (often a parent and its subsidiary or branch) |
| Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology and Innovation Inc. | Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology Industries Incorporated | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Department of Tourism Culture Arts and Recreation | Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Department of Tourism Culture Arts and Recreation | Province of Newfoundland and Labrador | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Department of Energy and Mines | Department of Tourism Culture Arts and Recreation | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Department of Energy and Mines | Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Department of Energy and Mines | Province of Newfoundland and Labrador | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Horizon économique de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Inc. | Reseau de Developpement Economique et d'Employabilite de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Memorial University | MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES | same business number, different names (a parent body's number, or an owner's) |
Every match, and how to question one
Every joined name, with the evidence that joined it, is in supplier-merges.csv; close names kept apart are in supplier-near-matches.csv, and the reviewed decisions in supplier_rules.csv. Each supplier page lists the names it combines, each linking to its own records. To question a match, or to show that two names are one supplier, challenge the method.