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The Quebec tender series
Yearly volumes, single-bid rates, the largest buyers and their competition profiles, methods, and the most active bidders — 2021–2026.
The corpus holds 405,956 Quebec calls for tenders on which bidder identities are published, 2021–2026 — enough to measure competition directly rather than infer it. The yearly series below covers the 389,825 tenders in those years with recorded bidder counts.
Tender volume by year
Single-bid share by year
| Year | Tenders | Avg bidders | Single-bid rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33,588 | 1.83 | 70.6% |
| 2022 | 49,679 | 1.75 | 72.7% |
| 2023 | 44,132 | 1.71 | 74.0% |
| 2024 | 41,509 | 1.86 | 70.1% |
| 2025 | 108,260 | 2.31 | 56.6% |
| 2026 | 112,657 | 1.96 | 71.0% |
The 2025 coverage break
Recorded volume more than doubles in 2025 (108,260 against 41,509 in 2024) while the single-bid rate drops from 70.1% to 56.6% — then volume stays high in 2026 (112,657) while single-bid returns to 71.0%. Two series moving that sharply at once points to a change in what is published rather than in market behaviour. Treat 2025 as a coverage break: levels before and after it are not strictly comparable.
Largest buyers
| Buying organization (as published) | Tenders | Avg bidders | Single-bid rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics) | 6,569 | 2.74 | 37.3% |
| Ville de Québec | 6,365 | 2.34 | 57.2% |
| Ville de Laval | 6,185 | 2.29 | 64.4% |
| Société de transport de Montréal | 5,866 | 1.44 | 84.9% |
| Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable (Direction générale de la gestion contractuelle) | 4,409 | 2.53 | 50.6% |
| Ministère des Transports (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics) | 4,397 | 1.87 | 69.9% |
| Université Laval | 4,339 | 1.45 | 85.3% |
| Ville de Gatineau. | 4,060 | 2.26 | 50.1% |
| Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke - CHUS | 4,034 | 1.21 | 92.6% |
| Ministère des Transports et de la mobilité durable (Direction de l'administration des appels d'offres publics) | 3,727 | 1.98 | 65.9% |
| Université McGill | 3,720 | 1.54 | 81.1% |
| Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec (CIUSSS MCQ) | 3,232 | 1.42 | 85.0% |
| Société québécoise des infrastructures | 3,147 | 2.86 | 41.0% |
The spread across buyers is wide and systematic. Transportation buyers get competition: the Transports ministry's tender-administration direction averages 2.74 bidders with a 37.3% single-bid rate, and the Société québécoise des infrastructures 2.86 and 41.0%. Health and education do not: the Estrie CHUS averages 1.21 bidders and closes 92.6% of its calls with one offer; Université Laval 1.45 and 85.3%; McGill 1.54 and 81.1%; the STM 1.44 and 84.9%. Buyer names appear as published; the ministry's successive administrative labels are listed separately and would combine to a larger total.
Procurement methods
Direct awards — calls made to a chosen supplier without an open process — account for 213,328 of 400,081 method-labelled tenders (53.3%). Open tendering covers 34.4%, limited processes 11.6%, and selective tendering under 0.6%. More than half of published calls never went to open competition.
Most active bidders
| Bidder | Bids submitted | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eurovia Québec Construction Inc. | 3,159 | 798 | 25.3% |
| LES SERVICES EXP INC. | 3,075 | 1,490 | 48.5% |
| WSP CANADA INC. | 2,862 | 1,224 | 42.8% |
| CIMA+ S.E.N.C. | 2,787 | 1,237 | 44.4% |
| STANTEC EXPERTS-CONSEILS LTÉE | 2,152 | 943 | 43.8% |
| SINTRA INC. | 1,881 | 519 | 27.6% |
| BOUTHILLETTE PARIZEAU INC. | 1,841 | 964 | 52.4% |
| GBI EXPERTS-CONSEILS INC. | 1,812 | 922 | 50.9% |
| Englobe Corp. | 1,796 | 1,132 | 63.0% |
| ITI INC. | 1,651 | 1,137 | 68.9% |
The busiest bidders are engineering and roadwork firms — the same cluster as the rivalry table on the competition overview. Eurovia Québec Construction Inc. has submitted 3,159 bids and won 798 (25.3%); LES SERVICES EXP INC. converts 48.5% of 3,075. Sustained win rates near one-in-four on contested roadwork tenders are the arithmetic of a market where the same firms meet weekly.
Quebec tender activity is tracked live in PubSec.Pro.