Canada: Québec: Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor
The Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor in Quebec, Canada, publishes open contracting data via their portal: Système électronique d’appel d’offres (SEAO).
The electronic tendering system was set up by the government of Quebec to comply with their Action plan promoting an Open Government 2020-2021. It serves mainly to disseminate calls for tenders from public bodies and municipalities, and the results of their contracts. The SEAO was developed for the needs of the Government of Quebec by the firm CGI which was selected following a public call for tenders by the Secretariat of the Council of treasure (TBS). CGI is the operator of SEAO.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- May 2004 - Nov 2024
- Update frequency:
- Monthly
- Main language:
- French
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-ec9k95
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
- Publication policy:
- https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/systeme-electronique-dappel-doffres-seao#fiche_descriptive
- Last retrieved:
- Dec 2024 (retrieved monthly)
- Retrieved from:
- https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/systeme-electronique-dappel-doffres-seao
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 888,827
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 268,608
- Count of tenderers:
- 568,696
- Count of tender items:
- 276,773
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 337,474
- Count of suppliers:
- 337,481
- Count of award items:
- 0
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 180,988
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 11,558
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 353,033
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 11,884
The lots extension is used. There is a bids array and the additional fields:
tender/deliveryareaawards/value/totalAmountandawards/value/totalamountparties/details/Municipalandparties/details/municipalparties/details/NEQandparties/details/neq
Data quality
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- There are some duplicate release identifiers.
- Organization identifiers are missing for buyers and appear in another object (the details object) for suppliers and tenderers.
Last reviewed: May 2021
Access data
This OCDS dataset is available for download in JSON, Excel or CSV format. You can download the data for contracting processes in a specific year or for all time.
JSON
Each contracting process is represented as one line of JSON text in the .jsonl file.
The .jsonl file is compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .gz file.
Excel
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the _link_main column.
Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.