Government of Canada Spend Data by Department

The Government of Canada Spend Data by Department dataset is a summary of procurement expenditure data at the Government of Canada level. It is derived from expenditure data submitted annually from over 55 departments and agencies, and is grouped by commodity broken down by family, group, category and subcategory. The data covers about 95 per cent of government’s total expenditure on goods and services.

Licence:

Open Government Licence - Canada

Dataset Resources

Resource Name Format Language Link
Government of Canada Spend Data by Department FY2010-2011 CSV Bilingual (English and French) Download
Government of Canada Spend Data by Department FY2011-2012 CSV Bilingual (English and French) Download
Government of Canada Spend Data by Department FY2012-2013 CSV Bilingual (English and French) Download
Government of Canada Spend Data by Department FY2013-2014 CSV Bilingual (English and French) Download
Government of Canada Spend Data by Department All CSV Bilingual (English and French) Download
Data Dictionary XML Bilingual (English and French) Download
Supporting Documentation HTML English Download
Supporting Documentation HTML French Download

Developer Tools

  • The information on this page (the dataset metadata) is also available in JSON format
    Link to JSON format

Comments

  • David McKie

    2015-04-16

    When will you be releasing the spending by department data for 2013-14?

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

    2015-04-22

    Thank you for your comment and your interest in the "Government of Canada Spend Management Data by Department" dataset. Spending by Department data for FY2013-2014 is projected to be released in Q1 of FY15-16 following the completion of the data cleansing and validation process.

  • Adriano De Leverano

    2015-06-25

    Is it possible to have data also about spending quality?

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

    2015-06-26

    Thank you for your comment and your interest in the "Government of Canada Spend Management Data by Department" dataset. Could you further explain what you mean by "spending quality?" Thank You.

  • Adriano De Leverano

    2015-06-29

    For example in the federal IT Dashboard for the U.S., the most important federal I.T. projects are tracked by their performance (overall rating of project, for example).

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

    2015-07-08

    Thank you for your comment and your interest in the “Government of Canada Spend Data by Department Dataset. The database does not store information related to spending quality.

  • Tracey Lauriault

    2015-10-02

    Do we produce these data? Records of actual (past) national government spending at a detailed transactional level; which meet these criteria? Individual record of transactions. Date of the transactions Government office which had the transaction Name of vendor amount of the transaction Update on a monthly basis If so where would I find them?

  • open-ouvert

    2015-10-05

    Thank you for your feedback. We have forwarded your comment to the dataset provider for their response. Best regards, the Open Government Team

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

    2015-10-09

    Thank you for your comment and your interest in the “Government of Canada Spend Data by Department” dataset. This dataset is only published at the Government of Canada department level and further broken down into commodity categories and subcategories. It is not available at the transaction level and does not include vendor names. The dataset is published yearly and is not published on a monthly basis. Thank you.