Public tenders — Montérégie
About 2,886 public tenders a year are open to a company in Montérégie, which makes it the 2nd region of 17 by volume. It sees 3.7 bidders per tender on average, against 3.6 for Quebec as a whole.
01 — The market in figures
- Open right now
- 175
- Reading of August 1, 2026 — figure possibly out of date
- Tenders per year
- 2,886
- 13.7% of Quebec
- Active companies
- 3,752
- Having bid since 2021
- Median contract
- $378K
- 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.
- 2,5882021
- 2,9162022
- 2,9462023
- 2,9592024
- 3,0212025
- 2,0982026
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
- Travaux de construction6 17037%
- Approvisionnement (biens)4 58528%
- Services de nature technique3 11319%
- Services professionnels2 48715%
- Autres1731%
By SEAO category
- Bâtiments3 262$471K
- Ouvrages de génie civil2 471$1.1M
- Entretien, réparation, modification, réfection et installation de biens et d’équipement1 171$225K
- Services d’architecture et d’ingénierie1 080$575K
- Produits et spécialités chimiques1 023$140K
- Services publics672$622K
- Services environnementaux575$217K
- Véhicules spéciaux487$155K
- Autres travaux de construction435$158K
- Fourniture et équipement médicaux et produits pharmaceutiques352$332K
- Services financiers et autres services connexes318$225K
- Équipement de transport et pièces de rechange317$215K
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
- 3.7
- Quebec: 3.6
- Tenders with a single bid
- 14.8%
- Quebec: 17.3%
- Companies that won a contract
- 2,579
- Out of 4,715 that bid
- Share held by the four most active
- 4.7%
- Quebec: 9.5%
How intense the competition is there is close to the Quebec average, at 3.7 bidders per tender. Montérégie ranks 5th 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 Montérégie, year by year.
- New companies per year
- 428
- First bid in the region
- Already came from elsewhere
- 52%
- Active in another region before
- Still active 3 years on
- 46%
- 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 | 6,189 | 32% | 23% |
| 1 year | 2,779 | 30% | 23% |
| 2 years | 2,684 | 29% | 23% |
| 3 years | 2,545 | 30% | 22% |
| 4 years | 2,461 | 29% | 22% |
| 5 years | 2,558 | 28% | 21% |
| 6 years | 2,299 | 27% | 20% |
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 | 519 | 55% | 65% |
| 2020 | 457 | 37% | 54% |
| 2021 | 406 | 45% | 55% |
| 2022 | 214 | 50% | 61% |
| 2023 | 542 | 41% | 52% |
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 Montérégie is March.
- January1 529of which 600 in construction
- February1 934of which 930 in construction
- March1 986of which 934 in construction
- April1 704of which 740 in construction
- May1 614of which 664 in construction
- June1 410of which 498 in construction
- July1 363of which 356 in construction
- August1 089of which 338 in construction
- September907of which 241 in construction
- October1 133of which 309 in construction
- November1 118of which 354 in construction
- December741of which 206 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: 1,643 contracts reach their end date in the next 12 months in Montérégie.
- Open right now
- 175
- Reading of August 1, 2026 — figure possibly out of date
- Contracts ending within 12 months
- 1,643
- Scheduled end of term
- Value of those contracts
- $1.9B
- Median $278K
- Active companies
- 3,752
- 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 |
| Concessions alimentaires écoles secondairesServices publics | Centre de services scolaire des Hautes-Rivières | August 17, 2026 |
| Aménagement du parc des Ateliers (phase II) et d'un parcours cycliste au parc SabrevoisOuvrages de génie civil | Ville de Boucherville | August 17, 2026 |
| Système d'information de dictée pour le personnel cliniqueTraitement de l’information et services de télécommunications connexes | CISSS Montérégie-Ouest | August 17, 2026 |
| Service de traiteur écoles primairesServices publics | Centre de services scolaire des Hautes-Rivières | August 17, 2026 |
| NPTB - Nouveaux pavages, trottoirs et bordures sur la rue du Vert et l'Ave. Andrée-ChampagneOuvrages de génie civil | Ville de Saint-Hyacinthe . | August 17, 2026 |
| Travaux de reconstruction des rues Chapais et ChanteclercOuvrages de génie civil | Ville de Saint-Constant. | August 17, 2026 |
| Services professionnels d’ingénierie (plans, devis et surveillance) pour l’urbanisation de la montée SabourinServices d’architecture et d’ingénierie | Ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville | August 17, 2026 |
| Plantation des noues végétalisées - Rue Lafrance OuestOuvrages de génie civil | Ville de Saint-Basile-le-Grand. | August 17, 2026 |
| Réfection du chemin David et de la rue du MoulinOuvrages de génie civil | Municipalité du Lac-Supérieur | August 17, 2026 |
| Acquisition d’un dossier médical électronique (DMÉ)Traitement de l’information et services de télécommunications connexes | Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de la Montérégie-Centre (CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre) | August 17, 2026 |
Where the contracts are ending
- Bâtiments307$809.9M
- Entretien, réparation, modification, réfection et installation de biens et d’équipement231$102.1M
- Ouvrages de génie civil217$420.2M
- Services d’architecture et d’ingénierie125$86.5M
- Services publics87$36.5M
- Traitement de l’information et services de télécommunications connexes64$52.4M
- Services environnementaux62$35.2M
- Équipement de transport et pièces de rechange60$96.8M
- Véhicules spéciaux43$24.2M
- Matériaux de construction38$12M
Follow this market
Montérégie'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 16,528 notices published for Montérégie since 2021, of which 12,138 named only this region. Competitors, how intense the competition is, and the entry paths cover a narrower population: the 9,733 tenders since 2015 whose bids are published with amounts, which is 36,379 bids from 4,715 companies. The two totals differ because they measure two different things.
A region of delivery, not an address. A notice is attached to Montérégie 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.