Federal department or agency
Public Health Agency of Canada: who it buys from
Every contract over $10,000 Public Health Agency of Canada reported.
- Total value
- $7.7B
- Contracts
- 7,899
- Median contract
- $24K
- Non-competitive
- 53%
- of 7,899 contracts that say how they were awarded
Federal contracts over $10,000, contracts dated Jan 2004 to Sep 2026, each counted once at its latest reported value. Source: Treasury Board proactive publication of contracts, published October 13, 2026.
33 categories in detail
Who sells each kind of thing to this buyer.
- Medical supplies, etc $4.4B
- Other health services not elsewhere specified $927M
- Other Business services not Elsewhere Specified $508M
- Other professional services not elsewhere specified $477M
- Pharmaceutical and Other Medicinal Products $388M
- Measuring, controlling, laboratory, medical and optical equipment and parts $239M
- Protection services $127M
- Scientific consultants $109M
- Information technology and telecommunications consultants $83.7M
- Measuring, controlling, laboratory, medical and optical instruments, apparatus and accessories $34M
- Computer equipment related to production and operations (P&O) environment-All servers, storage, printers, etc. (includes all related parts and peripherals) $27.1M
- Transportation of things not elsewhere specified $20.9M
- License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software $18.2M
- Data and database access services $17.6M
- Accounting and audit services $17.3M
- Client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) $14.9M
- Management consulting $14.1M
- Translation services $12.5M
- License/Maintenance fees for client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) $11.5M
- Communications research services $10.8M
- Other buildings $9.7M
- Computer equipment related to distributed computing environment (DCE)-Desktop/personal/portable (includes all related parts and peripherals) $8.4M
- Tuition fees and costs of attending courses including seminars not elsewhere specified $8.3M
- Temporary help services $6.8M
- Heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment $5.7M
- Electric lighting, distribution and control equipment $5.3M
- Rental of machinery, office furniture and fixtures and other equipment $3.4M
- Other equipment and Parts $2.9M
- Live animals, including their fodder $2.6M
- Suspense account (debit)-Other government departments $1.7M
- Training consultants $1.4M
- Safety and sanitation equipment and parts $1.3M
- Inorganic and organic chemicals, including plastics, rubber and products, and excluding tires and tubes $990K
Top vendors
The vendors with the most contract value here.
| Vendor | Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Switch Health Holdings Inc. | 2 | $624M |
| Metro Supply Chain Inc. | 5 | $336M |
| CAE Inc. | 1 | $283M |
| Mufactor Ltd. | 1 | $257M |
| Lifelabs Lp | 3 | $238M |
| Fti Professional Grade Inc. | 1 | $237M |
| Thornhill Medical | 1 | $200M |
| Amd Medicom Inc. | 2 | $181M |
| Campbell Drug Stores Ltd | 1 | $176M |
| Supermax Healthcare Canada Inc. | 2 | $174M |
| Canadian Emergency Ventilators Inc. | 1 | $170M |
| Virtual Possibilities Division | 1 | $169M |
| Spartan Bioscience Inc | 1 | $149M |
| Dynacare-Gamma Laboratory | 2 | $149M |
| Cepheid Inc. (Cad Funds) | 2 | $134M |
| Logistik Unicorp Inc. | 1 | $126M |
| Seqirus Canada Inc | 2 | $122M |
| Fluid Energy Group Ltd. | 3 | $116M |
| Isoplex Inc | 1 | $116M |
| The Stevens Company Limited | 11 | $109M |
| Luminultra Technologies Ltd | 3 | $104M |
| Canadian Red Cross Society | 5 | $104M |
| Woolly Mammoth Outerwear Inc | 2 | $99.3M |
| Wazana Clothing Inc. | 1 | $97.8M |
| Roche Diagnostics | 51 | $97.3M |
Plus 993 contracts ($760M) to individuals, sole proprietors and vendors this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why
What was bought
By the Treasury Board object code each contract was filed under.
Largest contracts
Latest contracts
By year
Contracts by the year they were dated.
| Year | Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 1 | $391K |
| 2009 | 2 | $53.4M |
| 2011 | 2 | $631K |
| 2012 | 5 | $25.3M |
| 2013 | 7 | $7M |
| 2014 | 23 | $32.7M |
| 2015 | 54 | $11.5M |
| 2016 | 106 | $15.1M |
| 2017 | 658 | $38.1M |
| 2018 | 767 | $45.8M |
| 2019 | 804 | $128M |
| 2020 | 915 | $4.7B |
| 2021 | 766 | $1.8B |
| 2022 | 950 | $499M |
| 2023 | 989 | $109M |
| 2024 | 769 | $159M |
| 2025 | 689 | $42.2M |
| 2026 | 392 | $161M |
How they were awarded
As the department reported it; older contracts often don't say.
| Procurement method | Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-competitive | 4,174 | $5.4B |
| Competitive | 2,960 | $1.3B |
| Competitive: open bidding | 659 | $991M |
| Advance contract award notice | 39 | $44.7M |
| Competitive: selective tendering | 67 | $24.4M |
Goods, services or construction
| Type | Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Goods | 4,256 | $5.2B |
| Services | 3,213 | $2.6B |
| Construction | 430 | $19.4M |