Public procurement · Canada
GovernmentTendersinCanada
Live public-sector tenders from Canada, across 30 industries — with deadlines, buyers, and the WTO-GPA context that lets foreign suppliers bid on equal terms. Pick an industry below, or let qlows match your catalog to what’s open right now.
Public procurement in Canada, by the numbers
Updated Jul 17, 2026
The size of the opportunity — the market qlows opens up, and how much is live in Canada right now.
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Canada tenders by industry
31 categories, mapped to EU CPV and US NAICS codes. Each opens the current Canada notices for that industry.
- Construction tenders
- IT Services tenders
- IT Hardware tenders
- Telecom tenders
- Medical Supplies tenders
- Pharma tenders
- Healthcare tenders
- Vehicles tenders
- Logistics tenders
- Security tenders
- Energy tenders
- Water tenders
- Environment tenders
- Cleaning tenders
- Catering tenders
- Textiles tenders
- Furniture tenders
- Office & Print tenders
- Machinery tenders
- Electrical tenders
- Lab Equipment tenders
- Engineering tenders
- R&D tenders
- Consulting tenders
- Legal tenders
- Finance tenders
- Marketing tenders
- Education tenders
- Real Estate tenders
- Maintenance tenders
- Agriculture tenders
Why you can bid here
How public procurement works in Canada
Canada is a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Above a published value threshold, public buyers must open their tenders to suppliers from every other GPA party on equal terms — a foreign supplier competes on the same footing as a domestic one, with no discrimination on origin.
Notices are published on CanadaBuys and other portals. The hard part isn’t eligibility — it’s finding the handful of notices worth your time among the thousands published every week, often across several portals and languages. That’s what qlows is built to solve: it reads the full corpus, classifies it by CPV/NAICS, and surfaces the tenders that fit your catalog.
Government tenders in Canada — FAQ
- Can foreign companies bid on government tenders in Canada?
- Yes. Canada is a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, so suppliers from any other GPA member can bid on covered public tenders on equal terms with domestic firms above the applicable value threshold (around ≈ SDR 130,000 for central-government supplies and services).
- Where are public tenders in Canada published?
- Most public-sector notices in Canada are published on CanadaBuys and related portals. qlows ingests these sources continuously so you can search them in one place instead of monitoring each portal separately.
- How do I find tenders in Canada that match what I sell?
- Import your product and service catalog into qlows and pick Canada as a market. Instead of guessing keywords, qlows learns your Fits and No-Fits and surfaces the notices worth bidding on — across all 30 industry categories.
- Is it free to search Canada tenders on qlows?
- You can start free — match your catalog and analyze your first deal with no card required. Paid plans add more deals per month, AI bid preparation, export, and MCP access.