Analytics
Explore Canadian government procurement data: markets, vendors, buyers, and contracts
Analytics
The Analytics workspace turns public procurement data into competitive intelligence. Research who wins government contracts, which departments buy what you sell, how concentrated your market is, and which incumbent contracts are coming up for re-bid.
Open it from Analytics in the main navigation.
The analytics workspace
Analytics is organized as a single tabbed workspace:
| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Market Overview | Award volume, top categories, top departments, and market structure for the selected jurisdiction |
| Vendors | Searchable explorer of every vendor in the award data, with links to full vendor profiles |
| Competitive Intel | Market concentration, vendor comparison, win profiles, and incumbent re-bid opportunities |
| Your Contracts | Your own win/loss record, public awards, clients, and renewal pipeline |
| Market Intel | Structural market signals: clearance demand, evaluation methods, certifications, and more |
| Buyers | A directory of government buyers across jurisdictions |
| Contracts | Full-text contract search with filters, plus contract detail pages |
Each tab is documented on its own page in this section. The active tab is kept in the URL, so you can refresh or share a link and land in the same place.
Jurisdictions and data sources
A jurisdiction toggle switches the workspace between Federal, Québec, British Columbia, and Ontario data. Coverage comes from official public sources:
- CanadaBuys — federal tender and award notices
- Federal proactive disclosure — departmental contract disclosures
- SEAO — Québec's official tendering system, including bidder-level results
- BC Bid — British Columbia tenders
- Ontario Tenders Portal and Ontario/BC municipal portals (including Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver open data)
Collection runs continuously: CanadaBuys is refreshed every two hours, SEAO daily, and BC Bid and Ontario municipal portals several times a day. Federal proactive disclosure is published quarterly by the government and checked daily.
Note
Not every panel exists in every jurisdiction. Federal has the deepest coverage; Québec adds bidder-level pricing analytics; BC and Ontario currently offer a smaller set of panels.
My markets vs. All markets
If you have chosen focus markets (the UNSPSC families your company competes in), a My markets ⇄ All markets toggle appears in the workspace header:
- My markets scopes the Market Overview and Competitive Intel panels to your focus families — market size, top buyers, top competitors, and recent awards in the categories you actually sell.
- All markets shows census-wide data across everything Cothon tracks.
Pick or change your focus families with the gear button next to the company header. Panels that cannot be scoped display an explicit "All markets" note, so the toggle never silently lies.
The company header also shows a tile per focus family: trailing-12-month market size, year-over-year growth, and your firm's share where a vendor profile is linked.
Exporting
The download button in the workspace header exports the current view as a CSV file — summary, top categories, top agencies, top vendors, and monthly trend, or your scoped market data when My markets is on. The file opens directly in Excel or Google Sheets.
Asking questions in plain language
The Analytics Explorer chat bubble floats on the Analytics page. Ask a question like "who are the top IT vendors this year?" and it queries the analytics data for you and answers with tables and result cards. See Analytics Explorer.
Access
Analytics pages require a subscription plan that includes the analytics feature. Some sub-features — such as tracked competitors — additionally require the organization intelligence feature.
In this section
- Analytics Explorer — ask questions in natural language
- Vendor Analytics — vendor explorer and vendor profiles
- Competitive Intelligence — concentration, comparisons, win profiles, incumbents
- Buyers — the government buyers directory
- Contract Search — find and inspect individual contracts
- Bid Performance — your own record and decision quality
- Market Intelligence — market overview and structural signals
- Staffing Rates — rate card and beta price estimates for staffing firms
- Sales Enablement — vendor pitch packs
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