Public tenders — Estrie
About 1,464 public tenders a year are open to a company in Estrie, which makes it the 6th region of 17 by volume. It sees 3.1 bidders per tender on average, against 3.6 for Quebec as a whole.
01 — The market in figures
- Open right now
- 103
- Reading of August 1, 2026 — figure possibly out of date
- Tenders per year
- 1,464
- 5.5% of Quebec
- Active companies
- 1,818
- Having bid since 2021
- Median contract
- $390K
- Median of awarded amounts
The populated corridor, enlarged — eight of the ten most active regions fit inside this frame. The regions in it are clickable, as on the map.
- 0–871
- 872–1 087
- 1 088–1 298
- 1 299–1 615
- 1 616–4 018
Quantile scale: each step holds a comparable number of regions.
Click a region to open its report.
Territorial boundaries: Données Québec, « Découpages administratifs » (SDA) 1/100 000, CC-BY 4.0, simplified for display. Labrador is outside Quebec and appears as a notch; the Côte-Nord and the Gaspésie extend over their gulf waters, as in the official boundaries.
Tenders published per yearThe current year is partial — it stops at July 24, 2026 — and its bar is left hollow for that reason. A notice naming several regions is counted in each: these bars compare from one region to another but do not add up to a Quebec total. The series starts in 2021, when SEAO began publishing notices in their current form.
- 1,2142021
- 1,3932022
- 1,5252023
- 1,5802024
- 1,6092025
- 1,1112026
03 — What goes out to tenderThe figure to the right of the left-hand bar is the share of tenders; on the right, the category's median estimated value where it is published. The estimates are medians and never totals: the estimated-amount column contains data-entry errors large enough to dominate a sum on their own.
By nature
- Approvisionnement (biens)3 33039%
- Travaux de construction2 42429%
- Services de nature technique1 41217%
- Services professionnels1 17014%
- Autres961%
By SEAO category
- Bâtiments1 172$411K
- Ouvrages de génie civil1 096$1.2M
- Produits et spécialités chimiques916$360K
- Services publics437$610K
- Entretien, réparation, modification, réfection et installation de biens et d’équipement387$332K
- Services d’architecture et d’ingénierie387$450K
- Fourniture et équipement médicaux et produits pharmaceutiques258$791K
- Véhicules spéciaux243$246K
- Services financiers et autres services connexes218$370K
- Matériaux de construction217$270K
- Traitement de l’information et services de télécommunications connexes215$350K
- Services environnementaux204$446K
04 — How many competitors to expectThe share held by the four most active is computed on the NUMBER of contracts won, not on the amounts. A share computed on amounts moves by a factor of two depending on whether one very large project was awarded during the period, which measures the capital plan rather than the competition. These figures describe the structure of the market — its size, its remoteness, the number of companies able to answer — and nothing else.
- Bidders per tender
- 3.1
- Quebec: 3.6
- Tenders with a single bid
- 20.4%
- Quebec: 17.3%
- Companies that won a contract
- 1,234
- Out of 2,296 that bid
- Share held by the four most active
- 8.8%
- Quebec: 9.5%
Competition is thinner there than elsewhere in Quebec: 0.4 fewer bidders per tender on average, and 20% of tenders receive only one. For a company able to serve the region, it is a market where competitors are fewer — and often further away. Estrie ranks 12th of 17 regions for the average number of bidders.
05 — Starting to bid here
What happened to the companies that filed their first bid in Estrie, year by year.
- New companies per year
- 238
- First bid in the region
- Already came from elsewhere
- 59%
- Active in another region before
- Still active 3 years on
- 41%
- At least one bid within 3 years
- Bids before a first contract
- 2
- Median, companies having bid 3 times or more
Win rate by tenureThe two columns have to be read together. The raw rate almost everywhere gives the impression that new companies do better than established ones. That is an artefact: a company appears in the data only when it chooses to bid, it picks a tender that suits it, and one that bid once and won once keeps a 100% rate forever. In regions where many tenders receive a single bid, “winning” often means “being the only one who turned up”. The right-hand column keeps only the genuinely contested tenders and is the one to rely on.
| Years since the first bid | Bids | Raw rate | Rate on tenders with 3 bidders or more |
|---|---|---|---|
| First year | 2,732 | 36% | 22% |
| 1 year | 948 | 32% | 23% |
| 2 years | 795 | 34% | 24% |
| 3 years | 820 | 34% | 25% |
| 4 years | 749 | 35% | 23% |
| 5 years | 745 | 32% | 23% |
| 6 years | 677 | 34% | 22% |
What became of the recent cohorts“Still active” means having filed at least one bid in the region over the following 3 years. A company that wins a multi-year contract and legitimately stops bidding for its duration therefore counts as inactive — the measure does not tell the two apart. Cohorts older than 2016 are excluded: a company already active before the data begins looks like a newcomer.
| First bid in | Companies | Still active over 3 years | Won a contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 279 | 52% | 63% |
| 2020 | 305 | 41% | 52% |
| 2021 | 221 | 33% | 54% |
| 2022 | 129 | 43% | 57% |
| 2023 | 256 | 36% | 57% |
06 — When the tenders come outCumulative over the last 6 years, by month of publication. The month a notice appears is not the month the work happens: a summer job goes out to tender in the spring.
Construction is seasonal in Quebec and so are the notices. The busiest month for construction work in Estrie is February.
- January752of which 219 in construction
- February935of which 347 in construction
- March1 011of which 340 in construction
- April913of which 328 in construction
- May776of which 292 in construction
- June743of which 203 in construction
- July779of which 143 in construction
- August548of which 115 in construction
- September437of which 99 in construction
- October572of which 124 in construction
- November580of which 141 in construction
- December386of which 73 in construction
07 — What is open, what is comingA contract reaching its end date is not an announced tender. Some are extended, some renewed with no new notice, some not replaced at all — SEAO does not link a renewal to its predecessor. What is asserted here and nothing more: 634 contracts reach their end date in the next 12 months in Estrie.
- Open right now
- 103
- Reading of August 1, 2026 — figure possibly out of date
- Contracts ending within 12 months
- 634
- Scheduled end of term
- Value of those contracts
- $410.9M
- Median $238K
- Active companies
- 1,818
- Potential competition
The next to close
| Tender | Buyer | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Équipements informatiques usagésMatériel informatique et logiciel | Centre d'acquisitions gouvernementales | August 14, 2026 |
| Fourniture et livraison de carburant diesel et location d'un réservoir | Ville de Dunham. | August 17, 2026 |
| Production, livraison et installation de la signalétique du Réseau Vélo YamaskaProduits divers | Corporation d'aménagement récréotouristique de la Haute-Yamaska (C.A.R.T.H.Y.) inc. | August 17, 2026 |
| Services professionnels en architecture pour la réfection de l'enveloppe extérieure à l'école secondaire du Tournesol à WindsorServices d’architecture et d’ingénierie | Centre de services scolaire des Sommets | August 17, 2026 |
| Réfection du chemin David et de la rue du MoulinOuvrages de génie civil | Municipalité du Lac-Supérieur | August 17, 2026 |
| Service autobus adapté et chauffeurs pour résidents CHSLD et/ou MDAAServices de transport, de voyage et de déménagement | Santé Québec Estrie - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke | August 17, 2026 |
| Affrètement d'hélicoptère sur demande - Programme Classe D/HEC | Hydro-Québec. | August 17, 2026 |
| Collecte, transport et traitement de matières résiduelles et spécifiquesServices publics | Université de Sherbrooke -Service des ressources financières- Section de l'approvisionnement | August 17, 2026 |
| Contrat à exécution sur demande d'un entrepreneur en climatisation pour les postes de contrôle routier QuébecBâtiments | Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec . | August 17, 2026 |
| SP - Plan, devis et surveillance des travaux pour l'aréna 2 glaces au parc de l'EstServices d’architecture et d’ingénierie | Ville de Magog. | August 18, 2026 |
| Spécialiste UiPath SéniorTraitement de l’information et services de télécommunications connexes | CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal | August 18, 2026 |
| Achat d'une chargeuse pelleteuse 4 x 4 à balancier extensible 2026 ou plus récentVéhicules spéciaux | Ville de Farnham | August 18, 2026 |
Where the contracts are ending
- Entretien, réparation, modification, réfection et installation de biens et d’équipement100$14.3M
- Ouvrages de génie civil79$116.4M
- Bâtiments79$108M
- Services publics68$37M
- Services environnementaux38$10.4M
- Services d’architecture et d’ingénierie34$15.2M
- Services de transport, de voyage et de déménagement33$7.9M
- Fourniture et équipement médicaux et produits pharmaceutiques31$6.9M
- Véhicules spéciaux21$11.9M
- Matériaux de construction20$7.7M
Follow this market
Estrie's tenders keep being published. Offra scores them one by one for your company, from your own record at SEAO: on each, a verdict and the five factors behind it — not a list of notices to sort through.
For a single notice there is also the one-off report: the winning price range, the number of bidders to expect, the likely competitors and the buyer's profile. See what the report contains.
08 — Method and sources
Everything above is computed from the notices published in the Quebec government's electronic tendering system. No company declares anything to us, and no figure on this page comes from a model: these are counts, medians and shares.
Two denominators, and they do not agree. Volume, buyers, sectors and seasonality cover the 8,432 notices published for Estrie since 2021, of which 4,614 named only this region. Competitors, how intense the competition is, and the entry paths cover a narrower population: the 3,697 tenders since 2015 whose bids are published with amounts, which is 11,608 bids from 2,296 companies. The two totals differ because they measure two different things.
A region of delivery, not an address. A notice is attached to Estrie when it declares a delivery there — not when the buyer or the company has its head office there. The two often differ: a ministry based in Quebec City has work carried out across the province.
Amounts. Amounts are medians. The estimated-value column contains a tail of data-entry errors large enough to dominate a sum — a single parking-lot snow removal notice carries an estimate of 3.8 billion — so no ranking on this page is based on a dollar total.
Rebuilt on August 14, 2026. Data as of July 24, 2026.