Data story · CanadaBuys award notices · Jan 2025 – Oct 2026

7,544 awards in Canada went to 2,982 suppliers from January 2025 to October 2026. Most suppliers in Canada won one award in the window: 66% of 2,982. The 29 suppliers with the most awards, the top 1%, won 17% of them.

Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 50% of CAD 3.90 billion. That is 33 points above the top 1% share of awards. No supplier won more than 3% of the awards. MCKESSON CANADA CORPORATION won the most: 189.

Awards: 7,544; Contract awards from Jan 2025 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
Winning suppliers: 2,982; Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
Won one award: 66%; Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
Top 1% of suppliers: 17%; Share of awards won by the 29 suppliers with the most awards.
Gini coefficient: 0.52; Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
Stated value (CAD): CAD 3.90 billion; From the 100% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Top 1% by stated value: 50%; Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.

We hold 22 months of data for Canada, so the window is 22 months, not 24. Do not compare these shares with 24-month windows.

How the awards spread across suppliers

Share of suppliers, awards and stated value by the number of awards each supplier won: 1, 2–5, 6–20, 21–100, 101 or more. Canada, January 2025 to October 2026.

Suppliers in order from the fewest awards to the most (x), against their total share of awards (y). The dashed line is an equal share for each supplier. The lower the curve, the more the awards gather at the top. Gini 0.52; by stated value 0.93.

Hollow dots: the share of awards held by the top 1% and the top 10% of suppliers by number of awards. Solid dots: the share of stated value held by the top 1% and the top 10% by stated value. The two groups can hold different suppliers. 100% of the awards state an amount. Values in CAD, capped at the 99.9th percentile.

Canada ranks 32nd of 48 countries for the Gini coefficient and 27th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.

Who wins the most awards

Top 10 suppliers by number of awards, January 2025 to October 2026.
#	Supplier	Awards	Share of awards	Stated value (CAD)	Share of value
1	MCKESSON CANADA CORPORATION	189	3%	7.65 million	under 1%
2	CANADIAN CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES	90	1%	38.2 million	under 1%
3	Teknion Limited	79	1%	6.35 million	under 1%
4	WSP CANADA INC	63	under 1%	19.7 million	under 1%
5	RENO-MAT (9368-3530 QC INC)	62	under 1%	11.3 million	under 1%
6	ARI FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.	55	under 1%	1.94 million	under 1%
7	QMR Staffing Solutions Inc	45	under 1%	1.81 million	under 1%
8	FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA	40	under 1%	38.5 million	under 1%
9	PARKLAND CORPORATION	37	under 1%	806,597	under 1%
10	Microsoft Canada Inc.	36	under 1%	97.8 million	3%

Who buys the most

Top 10 buyers by number of awards, January 2025 to October 2026.
#	Buyer	Awards	Share of awards	Stated value (CAD)	Share of value
1	Public Services and Procurement Canada	1,841	24%	1.62 billion	41%
2	Correctional Service of Canada	1,356	18%	129 million	3%
3	Parks Canada	970	13%	262 million	7%
4	Royal Canadian Mounted Police	862	11%	354 million	9%
5	Employment and Social Development Canada	287	4%	305 million	8%
6	Shared Services Canada	261	3%	806 million	21%
7	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada	249	3%	18.4 million	under 1%
8	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	189	3%	50.6 million	1%
9	Public Health Agency of Canada	168	2%	15.4 million	under 1%
10	Health Canada	165	2%	23.1 million	under 1%

Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.

Sectors

The award records for Canada have no CPV code, so this story has no sector table.

CPV sector: the sector of the award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Our keyword sector labels elsewhere on the site can give other counts.

How we counted

CanadaBuys award notices for Canada. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
January 2025 to October 2026. We hold 22 months of data for Canada, so the window has 22 months, not 24.
The records for Canada have no CPV code, so this story shows no sector numbers. We do not use our keyword sector labels: a hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors.
We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in CAD. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in Canada. 100% of the awards state an amount, CAD 3.90 billion in total.
These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.

The method is the method of our study of 39 countries: who wins government contracts. Other countries: who wins, country by country. The sector pages show the same numbers for each country and sector with enough data.

Snapshot 31 October 2026. Awards from January 2025 to October 2026 (22 months of data). The numbers change when we add new awards.