I pulled all 1.3 million federal contract records from the Government of<\/p>\n
Canada’s open data and looked at one question: who’s holding contracts that<\/p>\n
are about to come up for renewal?<\/p>\n
A few things surprised me.<\/p>\n
26,240 federal contracts are currently live, worth $125B. Of the ones that<\/p>\n
report a bidder count, 75% drew one bid or none.<\/p>\n
And roughly 63 contracts cross into the 12-month planning window every single<\/p>\n
week \u2014 about $19B of contract value a year.<\/p>\n
That last number is the interesting one. Agencies typically start recompete<\/p>\n
planning 12\u201318 months before a contract ends. So the moment a contract crosses<\/p>\n
that line is the moment it becomes worth a conversation. It’s all public, but<\/p>\n
nobody was watching for it.<\/p>\n
So I built something that does. It’s free, it updates itself monthly, and it<\/p>\n
shows you which contracts are expiring, who holds them, what they’re worth,<\/p>\n
and how contested they were last time.<\/p>\n
No signup needed to browse it. Link in the comments.<\/p>\n
If you bid on federal work, I’d genuinely like to know whether this is useful<\/p>\n
or whether I’ve missed something obvious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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