Making government procurement accessible
Canada spends billions with contractors every year. A small HVAC shop should have the same shot at that work as a firm with a full-time bid team.
- $66.9B
- Federal contract spending each year
- 74%
- of contracts are under $1M — ideal for small trades
- 30+
- procurement portals we monitor
Sources: Public Services and Procurement Canada. Figures to be finalized with citations before launch.
A $67 billion market most contractors can't reach
Government procurement is built for compliance, not accessibility. Tenders are scattered across dozens of portals, requirements hide in hundred-page PDFs, and one missed certificate disqualifies an otherwise perfect bid.
So the work concentrates with whoever can afford a dedicated proposals team — even though 74% of contracts are under $1 million and ideal for small trades businesses.
Winning public work should come down to doing the job well — not decoding paperwork.
Give every contractor a procurement partner
Contractual is the bid team a small contractor never had: an agent that watches the portals, reads the fine print, scores the fit honestly, and drafts the package — so winning public work comes down to doing the job well, not decoding paperwork.
30+ portals. One agent.
We index CanadaBuys, MERX, and dozens of provincial & municipal systems into one place — and put an agent on top that reads, scores, and drafts against them.
Built for how Canadian procurement actually works
WSIB, provincial certifications, CGL requirements, bilingual tenders — Contractual is built around the real rules of Canadian public procurement, not a generic template bolted onto a US product.
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