Government Procurement

Tendering Services for Canada

• Contracts Canada: an inter-departmental initiative to improve supplier and buyer awareness and simplify access to federal government purchasing information.
• Consulting and Audit Canada (CAC) : CAC provides a full spectrum of relevant government-oriented consulting and audit services to public sector managers.
• BIDS (Bidding Information Services): is a privately owned company with its head office in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is an electronic publisher that distributes tenders and tender information to subscribers on behalf of public and corporate buyers.
• Bid Navigator: a web based tool that enables suppliers providing various goods and services (referenced throughout the website as "vendors") to locate bid opportunities from provincial and municipal governments, school boards and the healthcare sector, (referenced throughout the website as "public sector buyers") from across North America.
• MERX: Canada's official, public-sector electronic tendering service.
• BC Bid-Ministry of Management Services: provides a wide range of purchasing-related services to Government ministries and public sector organizations of British Columbia, Canada.
• Ontario Public Buyers' Association Inc.: a not-for-profit, volunteer-driven, professional association representing those whose work requires them to expend public funds. They promote the ethical and effective expenditure of public funds through the principles of public procurement.
• Marché publics-Gouvernement du Québec-Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor: the information on government contract is presented according to public and parapublic sectors buyers or goods, services or construction providers (in French only).
• Government of Newfoundland & Labrador Public Tenders: the Newfoundland Provincial Public Tender Board.
• Government of Nova Scotia Public Tender Opportunities

Tendering Services for Elsewhere

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Government Procurement Homepage: general information about efforts to liberalize government procurement by APEC's 21 member economies, as well as specific information about the current government procurement policies, procedures, trade opportunities, and key people to contact in each of those economies.
• Doing Business with United Nation Agencies: The United Nations, including its many affiliate agencies, represents an international market of US$ 3 billion for suppliers of virtually all types of goods and services. Such a market is well worth your serious consideration.
• U.S. Government - Commerce Business Daily (CBDNet): lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.