Federal, provincial and territorial governments currently advertise their tender notices on their own procurement websites or on an electronic tendering system operated by a third party service provider. These governments are seeking ways to improve the ease with which Canadian suppliers are able to access information on public sector procurement opportunities. For this reason, provincial and territorial governments have agreed to share their tender notices with each other so that those governments that wish to do so can publish the notices of all participating governments in one internet location – i.e. on their own official procurement site – for the benefit of their suppliers.

Users are cautioned that MARCAN may not contain all the sites that publish tender notices for procurement opportunities within the Canadian public sector.