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Releases
The current release (2026.10), its corpus scope and changes, the release format, and the archive.
Release 2026.10 — current · published 3 October 2026
Corpus: 1,313,281 federal award records (2004–2026p), 405,956 Quebec tenders with named bidders (2021–2026p), 2,043 CITT challenge documents (1990–2026p), 15,068 BC awards (2012–2026p).
- Expands the Index from four summary pages to a full release of sixteen pages.
- New federal section: full 2004–2026 yearly series, value bands, top-25 departments and vendors, the no-tender rate series 2015–2026, and Indigenous set-aside totals.
- New competition section: category-level competition intensity, rivalry pairs, and the Quebec series with buyers, methods, and bidder activity. Flags the 2025 coverage break explicitly.
- New CITT bid-challenge series (2000–2026 dated records) and British Columbia section (awards, ministries, vendors).
- Upgraded provincial analysis with mean-award column and corrected Alberta anomaly comparisons; new glossary, FAQ, and this release archive.
Release format
Each entry records the release tag, publication date, corpus scope, and changes by section. All series are recomputed from scratch from the compiled corpus on every release — figures are not carried forward, so a release supersedes all earlier values, including for closed years, when late records arrive. Partial years are marked (p) and remain provisional until the following release.
Archive
2026.10 is the first archived release. Earlier editions of the Index existed as summary pages without versioned series and are not part of the archive. The current release is always the one served; superseded releases are retained for citation.
Citation
Public Service Index (October 2026). Release 2026.10. No Strings Labs. https://publicserviceindex.org/releases