Why people look at this
A contract record that does not say what was bought cannot be checked by anyone outside.
How it is worked out
- Provincial awards whose description is two words or fewer, or is a generic word such as "services", "goods", "supplies" or "consulting".
Data used
What it cannot tell you
This grades the record, not the purchase.
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.