Federal concentration: who holds the $1,212.3B
1,313,281 awards, 2004–2026, 183,024 distinct vendor names. Value concentrates sharply; contract counts do not.
The small-supplier finding
Concentration measured by value (62.6% to the top 100) and by count (87.2% of awards outside the top 100) point in opposite directions. The federal market is a long tail of ordinary contracts sitting under a thin layer of megaprograms: 76.3% of all awards are under $100K, while only 51,446 contracts (4.0%) exceed $10M.
Award count by value band
| Value band | Contracts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| under $25K | 596,768 | 46.0% |
| $25K-100K | 394,169 | 30.4% |
| $100K-1M | 246,607 | 19.0% |
| $1M-10M | 51,446 | 4.0% |
| over $10M | 9,098 | 0.7% |
Bands run from the $10K proactive-disclosure reporting threshold upward. 1,298,088 awards carry a usable value in the corpus.
Top 25 vendors by lifetime value
Eight of the top 25 entries hold their value on fewer than ten contracts each — $124.4B combined. Shipbuilding, aerospace, and facilities megaprograms (Irving, Vancouver Shipyards, SkyAlyne, BGIS) dominate the top of the table; the highest-frequency vendors sit far down the value-per-contract column — Bell at 1,663 contracts, Microsoft at 1,621.
| Vendor | Value | Contracts | Avg contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARSONS INC | $38.7B | 188 | $206.0M |
| IBM CANADA LTD. | $36.5B | 1,217 | $30.0M |
| BGIS GLOBAL INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS CA | $35.5B | 25 | $1.42B |
| VANCOUVER SHIPYARDS CO LTD | $25.9B | 150 | $172.4M |
| Irving Shipbuilding Inc | $25.6B | 6 | $4.27B |
| SkyAlyne Canada Limited Partnership | $22.4B | 2 | $11.2B |
| Irving Shipbuilding Inc. | $18.8B | 2 | $9.38B |
| Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. | $18.7B | 108 | $173.1M |
| MICROSOFT CANADA INC. | $17.5B | 1,621 | $10.8M |
| I.M.P Group Limited | $16.9B | 9 | $1.88B |
| MDA SYSTEMS LTD. | $15.9B | 175 | $90.8M |
| PCL CONSTRUCTORS CANADA INC. | $15.9B | 169 | $93.9M |
| General Dynamics Land Systems - Canada Corporation | $14.6B | 68 | $214.5M |
| L-3 Communications MAS (Canada) Inc. | $13.3B | 104 | $128.0M |
| POMERLEAU INC. | $12.3B | 203 | $60.8M |
| MACDONALD, DETTWILER & ASSOCIATES LTD. | $12.0B | 26 | $462.3M |
| THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF | $11.6B | 1,663 | $7.0M |
| Cascade Aerospace Inc. | $11.5B | 21 | $549.1M |
| ELLISDON CORPORATION | $11.5B | 139 | $82.8M |
| Vancouver Shipyards Co Ltd | $11.1B | 5 | $2.22B |
| TELUS COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY | $10.7B | 1,290 | $8.3M |
| D+H CORPORATION | $10.5B | 20 | $524.5M |
| GROUPE SIGNATURE SUR LE | $10.1B | 2 | $5.03B |
| GROUPE SIGNATURE SUR LE SAINT LAURENT | $9.85B | 2 | $4.92B |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation | $9.63B | 6 | $1.60B |
Names as published. Near-duplicate legal names (e.g. "Irving Shipbuilding Inc" and "Irving Shipbuilding Inc.") appear as separate rows — see methods for the normalization status.
Departments: the National Defence share
National Defence accounts for 38.9% of lifetime value (27.6% of contracts). The top five departments — Defence, PWGSC/PSPC, Shared Services, Fisheries and Oceans, and the Canadian Space Agency — hold 78.7% of all value. Procurement, interpreted as a market, is mostly a handful of large portfolios.
| Department | Value | Share | Contracts | Avg award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Defence dnd-mdn | $471.4B | 38.9% | 362,845 | $1.3M |
| Public Works & Government Services (PSPC) pwgsc-tpsgc | $239.3B | 19.7% | 73,111 | $3.3M |
| Shared Services Canada ssc-spc | $137.1B | 11.3% | 29,177 | $4.7M |
| Fisheries and Oceans dfo-mpo | $64.5B | 5.3% | 117,545 | $549K |
| Canadian Space Agency csa-asc | $41.6B | 3.4% | 4,322 | $9.6M |
| Employment & Social Development esdc-edsc | $39.5B | 3.3% | 40,131 | $984K |
| Infrastructure Canada infc | $25.1B | 2.1% | 1,304 | $19.2M |
| Public Health Agency of Canada phac-aspc | $16.9B | 1.4% | 10,033 | $1.7M |
| Parks Canada pc | $16.1B | 1.3% | 61,027 | $264K |
| Canada Revenue Agency cra-arc | $16.0B | 1.3% | 43,316 | $369K |
| Canada Border Services Agency cbsa-asfc | $15.3B | 1.3% | 12,653 | $1.2M |
| Immigration, Refugees & Citizenship cic | $14.5B | 1.2% | 16,656 | $869K |
| Correctional Service Canada csc-scc | $14.5B | 1.2% | 58,955 | $246K |
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police rcmp-grc | $14.1B | 1.2% | 36,939 | $381K |
| Global Affairs Canada dfatd-maecd | $11.3B | 0.9% | 79,173 | $143K |
| Environment & Climate Change ec | $8.8B | 0.7% | 69,222 | $127K |
| National Research Council nrc-cnrc | $7.6B | 0.6% | 50,045 | $152K |
| Veterans Affairs Canada vac-acc | $7.3B | 0.6% | 5,091 | $1.4M |
| Health Canada hc-sc | $6.4B | 0.5% | 14,647 | $436K |
| Treasury Board Secretariat tbs-sct | $6.4B | 0.5% | 7,999 | $798K |
| Transport Canada tc | $5.4B | 0.4% | 23,253 | $230K |
| Innovation, Science & Economic Development ic | $4.8B | 0.4% | 22,916 | $212K |
| Natural Resources Canada nrcan-rncan | $3.9B | 0.3% | 32,057 | $121K |
| Elections Canada elections | $2.7B | 0.2% | 3,606 | $762K |
| Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada aafc-aac | $2.6B | 0.2% | 19,611 | $131K |
Indigenous-supplier flags
A small slice of records (7,773 contracts, $4.63B) carries Indigenous-supplier set-aside flags as published (MS: 2,036 · VS: 5,737). Flag coverage is incomplete; treat these as floors, not totals.
Citation format
pubsec/data 2026.10, https://pubsecdata.org/findings/concentration