Name: Top Canadian Contracting Opportunities for FY 2027
Uploaded: 2026-09-22T19:30:44.414Z
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Description: Top Canadian Contracting Opportunities for FY 2027

Transcript for "Top Canadian Contracting Opportunities for FY 2027": Welcome, everybody. Good evening or good morning or good afternoon, wherever you're tuning in from. We are glad to have you with us for today's presentation, top Canadian contracting opportunities for fiscal year 2027. My name is Brent Mitel, and I'll be the moderator for today's webinar. I am a senior research analyst at Deltek on the SLED state local education market analysis side. But before we start, I'd like to share some important information with you. To enjoy the best webinar experience, please use Google Chrome or Firefox as your browser. You can ask questions at any time during the presentation by typing them into the q and a box, and we will respond to as many questions as we can at the end of the webinar. If you're a current GovWind customer, you can also submit inquiries to our research team of analysts through govwind dot com. This is a great option if we don't have time to address your specific question on this webinar. You can download the presentation slides and other resources from the resources panel on your screen, and you will also receive an email with the on demand recording of today's webinar within twenty four hours after the webinar ends. Now let me introduce our speaker for today's presentation. We have with us Brynn Bruder, with Deltek's Canadian market analysis team. Welcome, Brynn. And before we hand it off to her, we're gonna do a, we're gonna take a look here at our join the UX research program slide, and let me explain what this is really quickly. So we're inviting Deltek users to become active partners in shaping the future of our products. As part of our UX research program, you'll have direct opportunities to tell us how you work, what's working well, where you're experiencing friction, and what you need as your business evolves. Those insights help us make better decisions about our product road maps, feature prioritization, and user experiences. You'll have a chance to influence solutions before they're released to the broader market. We also encourage you to invite colleagues who use Deltek in different roles and workflows because those additional perspectives help us better understand the needs of your organization as a whole. This is a direct connection between your business needs and our product teams. If you'd like to have a voice in what comes next, simply scan the QR code to join our research community. Alright. Next slide. Alright. So, again, today's webinar, top Canadian contracting opportunities for fiscal year 2027, and we'll jump to the next slide. And I will hand it over now to our lead speaker, Bryn Bruder. Bryn? Alright. Thank you so much, Brent. Alright. First, I'm going to start out by going over today's agenda. We will start with an overview of our top opportunities research, then I'll discuss the scope and methodology, how we conducted our research, then I'll dive into those 10 opportunities. I'm going to start with, the municipal sector, so local government. Then I will get into the provinces and territories and, finally, the federal government. And then I have a few key takeaways, and then we'll have our q and a session. Now this research is based on a new market report that it is coming to or coming out soon. So this webinar is really a sneak peek of the research, and you can expect that report to be published in about two weeks. So if you want to hear more about anything that we discussed today, keep your eyes peeled for that report. So let's start with our research overview. So what is in today's research? We are going to be looking essentially at 10 major upcoming government contracting opportunities across the country, so spanning all three levels of government. These opportunities are being taken, you know, these opportunities are part of Canada's overall public sector market, which is valued at more than 200,000,000,000 Canadian dollars annually. And, again, that spans the federal government, the provinces and territories, and municipalities. So the 2026 budget cycle, which is the most recent budget cycle in Canada, has essentially created billions of dollars in public sector initiatives that are planned for 2027. And so that's really the focus of our research today. And what we saw is that there are a lot of investments, from that budget cycle in infrastructure, digital transformation, public safety, and other key priority areas. So those 10 major opportunities, out of all the many initiatives that are slated for 2027, we picked 10 that stood out to us. And together, those are worth a combined $2,200,000,000. And we'll be talking a bit more you know, we'll be talking in-depth about each opportunity and what vendors need to know to get ahead of those opportunities. The 10 projects do represent a variety of different industries and project types, so we will be presenting, you know, a diverse array to try to appeal to different businesses in the Canadian market. One final thing that's important to remember as we go through today's research is that most of these solicitations, I believe nine out of 10 of them, are anticipated to come out in q one twenty twenty seven. So that would be January through March 2027. So we're going by the calendar year there. So if you're not already tracking these opportunities, now is the time to start. Now before we get into the research, I'll hand it back over to Brent for a brief question for our audience. Thanks, Brent. So we're gonna have a couple of poll questions today. This is the first one. And, what we're asking here is how would you describe the current Canadian government contracting market compared to two years ago? Options to select from here are much more competitive, somewhat more competitive, about the same, somewhat less competitive, much less competitive, and unsure. So we'll give you all a little bit of time here to answer, and then, we'll move on with the presentation. So just give it a ten or fifteen more seconds here. So in general, it looks like people most are saying it's somewhat more competitive. Not many people saying it's it's less competitive. So that that creates challenges but also opportunity. Alright. And, so we'll we'll end that poll question there, and I'll hand it back to Brynn to continue on with the presentation. Brynn? Alright. Thank you. And, yes, I am not super surprised at the poll results. I do think with so many changes that have happened with the procurement market in the last year and the rules and regulations, of how procurement is done, I think there is a lot more competition. Alright. But without further ado, let's get into our research. And I wanted to start out by discussing the scope and methodology of the research just so you all could understand how and why we were conducting this research. Alright. So beginning with the scope. So as I mentioned, today, we're profiling 10 projects across all three levels of Canadian government. There will be four municipal projects, so projects at the local government level, three provincial and territorial, and three federal projects. Seven out of the 10 projects were sourced from gov win I q's database of lead alerts, which are forward looking opportunities. And the remaining three, which are all the federal projects, are sourced from gov win's database of bid notifications. And, specifically, these projects were tied to requests for information that were posted on government bid portals. And on the screen here, we have an example of what a lead alert in GovWin looks like if you, are not a subscriber to GovWin or are not familiar with that lead alert database. So in terms of what lead alerts, and bid notifications are, so beginning with lead alerts, those are more forward looking opportunity profiles that are developed by Deltek's market analysts through ongoing monitoring of budgets and capital improvement plans as well as other types of planning documents. Now I mentioned seven out of the 10 opportunities are sourced from lead alerts. So for the remaining three, we used our bid notification database, and bid notifications capture real time opportunities published through government bid portals. So the reason we used bid notifications for our federal projects is because the federal government tends to announce more high level spending in its budget rather than getting down to the granular project detail that is required, to develop a lead alert. So that just provides a little bit more context. But we did only select federal opportunities where the RFI has been released in just the past couple or past two to three months. So this is very recent, very fresh intel. Overall, all of the opportunities were selected based on their value. So a high value, their relevance to key industries like defense or technology, as well as their geographic diversity across Canada. And then one more thing or another thing to note is that all dollar figures today are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. When we show the lead alert profiles, you'll see that opportunities are in both Canadian and US dollars. And just note that the US dollar conversion is the conversion rate is from the day that the lead alert was published. So that's not necessarily today's conversion rate. Now altogether, all of these opportunities are backed either by approved budgets, capital plans, or live RFIs. So these are real projects that will be coming to market, estimated for next year in 2027. Now a couple more quick facts and figures, about our research. When we conducted this research, there were about 76,000 active lead alerts, in the gov win system and about 23,000 active bid notification. So, again, that's across the entire, Canadian government market. The as I mentioned, the total combined value of the 10 projects we're discussing today is $2,200,000,000. And to be tracking these opportunities and monitoring all of this information, GovWin bring brings together over 2,500 different bid and tender sources. So that's really at the heart of where we're finding, this information. And then lastly, there's nine different governments that are spotlighted in this research. So one government is featured twice, and that will be the province of Alberta. Okay. So let's start with our municipal top opportunities, and there are going to be four projects in this section. The first project is a cybersecurity strategy in Hamilton, Ontario. The division of government that is supporting this project is called corporate services. And for every profile page that will show you, like this one, You're going to see the title as it's featured in GovWin as well as the GovWin ID that you can use to look this project up if you are a GovWin subscriber. So, see, we have so and sometimes the title is very complicated. So for the purposes of our research and this webinar and the corresponding report, we've kind of we've altered the titles a bit, just to make to create some more clarity and, make it make it a little bit more brief. The value of this project is 7,200,000 Canadian dollars or 5,200,000 US dollars. This particular project, as I mentioned, most of the projects are estimated to be released in q one twenty twenty seven. Again, that is an estimate, based on the timing of the budget. So the projects could potentially be pushed back, but the closest estimation is sometime in q one. Now this particular project was born out of a cyber attack that occurred, in Hamilton in February 2024, and the cyber attack actually knocked out almost all of the city's IT systems. The recovery alone from this incident cost the city about $18,400,000 with about 14,000,000 paid out to external consultants. Another interesting or unfortunate fact about the cyber attack incident was that insurance would not cover the recovery would not cover the costs of recovery because the city had not fully rolled out two step verification across all of its government systems. So all is to say that this was a very costly situation for Hamilton both monetarily and just in terms of getting their government operations back on track. So the strategy was really developed as, you know, was a major response to what happened. And the strategy actually consists of about 21 different projects. And the funding that is allocated for next year is meant to complete the remaining projects that have not yet, happened or been undertaken. So with that $7,200,000, that will bring the total program cost to almost $55,000,000. And there's five IT systems in particular that account for about 80% of those capital costs. Those are e an ERP system, system for permitting, asset management, a CRM, and then, dispatch software for the fire department. And those five in particular are costing so much because many of those could actually not be fully recovered after the cyber attack, took place. And then you'll see on the slide and we'll this will be this will be for every slide, or for every project profile slide, but we include the source of the lead alert or the source of the project, the status of that source, so whether a budget has been approved or is still proposed. I do believe that all the budgets have been approved at this time. So all of those statuses will be approved. Again, the estimated solicitation date as well as an estimated duration for the project. With every project, we are also taking a deeper dive into the smart tag that is associated or the the primary smart tag that is associated with that project. So if, again, if you are not familiar with smart tags, those are a classification system that is used in GovWin to classify goods and services and make it easier for our clients to find the projects that they're really interested in. This we decided to take the primary smart tag associated with each project and look at, you know, overall the overall trend in that category over the past five complete calendar years. So the tag that is most closely associated with this project is for cybersecurity services, and this category, has experienced significant growth in terms of bid and tender accounts. And, again, these numbers represent the entire Canadian government contracting market, so that's all three levels of government. But we can see that the numbers between 2021 and 2025, bid and tender accounts more than doubled. And in fact, they're they're almost tripled the amount that they were back in 2021. So overall for this project, you know, this really is, unfortunately, it's kind of a textbook example of a major cyber incident causing that started out as kind of a reactive effort turning into a strategic IT modernization play. So given the strong growth in this category, it's evident that this you know, Hamilton is not the only city where this has happened in Canada, and cybersecurity continues to be extremely important, moving forward, especially with all the new developments with AI and other advanced IT capabilities. Okay. Our second municipal project is for computer assist a computer assisted mass appraisal system. This is taking place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The government division that supports this project is corporate governance and finance. Again, we have the title as it appears in GovWin as well as the ID that you can look you can use to look it up. This project has a value of about 4,000,000 Canadian dollars or about 2,900,000 US dollars. The goal of the project is to replace the city's legacy property assessment platform, and they actually did issue an RFI related to this project back in June of this year. So there even though the project is sourced from a lead alert, there is an associated, a bid notification that is associated with it. So Saskatoon is one of only five cities in Saskatchewan that runs its own property assessments. All of the other cities, rely on the provincial system. And the system that is currently in place in Saskatoon is on the older side, and definitely needs to be updated. In the RFI, the city did provide some insights into what they would be eventually looking for, should they release a formal solicitation. They are interested in vendors who can demonstrate that their system integrates with taxation systems, billing systems, g I or GIS system, permitting, and ERP systems. They're also very much interested in a solution that incorporates AI, analytics, or, you know, other advanced capabilities like that. The RFI also hinted that the city is looking for more of a long term partner rather than just strictly the software. They wanted to see they noted that they wanted to be able or they wanted vendors to be able to demonstrate a three to five year product road map for after the solutions implementation, which does again suggest, more of a long term partnership between the vendor and the city. The primary tag, one of the primary tags associated with this opportunity is financial management software, which grew steadily over the five year historical period. We can see that bid and tender accounts went from 20 to 31 over the five years. This is more than 50% growth. However, it's really at more of a slight sustained level, but still growing. Alright. Our third opportunity at the municipal level is for urban transportation enhancements. This is in Kelowna, British Columbia, and this opportunity is valued at about 8,600,000 Canadian dollars or 6,200,000 US dollars. This project is part of a ten year capital plan that goes through 2035 that is tied to expected population growth in the city of Kelowna. So Kelowna is a good example of what's happening in Canada, what's happening in many cities in Canada right now where people are looking to move, to smaller communities moving out of some of those major metro centers. So there's a lot of smaller cities and communities that are expecting quite a bit of population growth, over the next few years. So this and this is just an one example of that taking place. The money for this project is specifically set aside for transportation mobility upgrades across five of the city's urban centers or kind of urban pockets, that are expected to absorb about 40% of that future growth. So those five those five urban pockets are expected to see over 17,000 new housing units and about 30,000 new jobs. So that does require enhancements to the transportation infrastructure. And the money is going to cover a variety in of initiatives, so to support, you know, cycling, pedestrians, traditional road infrastructure, and public transit infrastructure. Now this opportunity sits inside of a much larger investment of about $87,000,000 that is going to fund 55 different transportation projects, some of which are already underway in 2026 across the entire city. So, ultimately, this is a small, you know, a smaller line item inside a much bigger transportation initiative. But it is a good entry point for firms who are looking, for a foothold in the city's broader capital program. The primary smart tag associated with this opportunity is for urban planning services. This opportunities in this category have experienced very rapid growth, in the five year period. And, in fact, those bids and tenders have more than tripled, between 2021 and 2025. So this is a rapidly expanding market nationwide, and that really ties back to what I said about, you know, several commute you know, a trend right now of smaller communities in Canada expecting, significant population growth over the next ten to fifteen years and, of course, needing to take the steps to accommodate that growth. Our final municipal project is a light rail extension project in Waterloo, Ontario. This is our largest project of the report. It is valued at 2,000,000,000 Canadian dollars, or 1,500,000,000 US dollars. The project is to complete stage two of the region's light rail system expansion. The light rail, is called ION, and the project will extend the line from Kitchener to Cambridge with seven new stations. Funding for this project runs through 2035, and, currently, it's in the preliminary stages. So the detailed design and preconstruction phase, which means that right now, they the the region is undertaking, heritage assessments, you know, assessing whether utilities need to be relocated and, undertaking environmental studies. So, again, more in the beginning stages of the project. The extension of the light rail system has strategic importance because it will connect the Toronto Waterloo corridor, which is the third largest tech cluster in North America. The project is also one of 10 light rail initiatives in the region's 2026 budget, which just signals how important light rail is as an investment area, currently in Waterloo as well as in, you know, other communities in Canada. Ultimately, at 2,000,000,000, this is really, you know, the marquee opportunity of the report, and it's still a long ways away from, you know, construction and breaking ground, meaning that there is a long runway for firms, you know, for design, for engineering, and consulting firms to get positioned. The primary smart tag associated with this opportunity is rail and rapid transit infrastructure design services, which has experienced some volatility in terms of its five year trend. Now in 2025, we can see that bids and tenders did have renewed growth, which does point to some positive momentum in this category. Also, if you are familiar with our GovWin IQ system, you'll know that there are several smart tags in the system related to rail and rapid transit infrastructure. So you'll have construction, maintenance, operations, renovation. So the design services are just one one smart tag among several smart tags related to rail and rapid transit. So might also be worth checking out, some of those other smart tags as well if you have access to our system. Okay. That concludes our four municipal projects, and now we will move into our three provincial and territorial projects. Okay. I mentioned before that we have one government jurisdiction that is repeated, and that is the province of Alberta. So the next couple of projects are both from Alberta. This project is a public art gallery conversion, which is being supported by the ministry for arts, culture, and status of women. Ministries are just the name used for provincial departments, if you're not familiar with that. The project is valued at 16,000,000 Canadian dollars or 11,600,000 US dollars. The project is to this is stage three of the project, but the overall project is to convert the historic Centennial Planetarium in Calgary into a contemporary public art gallery. It's the third this funding is specifically for the third and final phase of the broader project, which in total is valued at about a $160,000,000, including up to $40,000,000 in federal funding through the build community strong fund. This third and final phase is just completing, you know, obviously, building off of the work from the first two phases, and it will modernize the space and tailor it specifically to support the gallery's exhibitions, programming, and community engagement activities. So, essentially, the space is being, dramatically expanded so that there is more exhibition space, more room for, like, event programming, and as well as making it a community gathering space. Now the project is taking place with a lot of sustainability initiatives. The goal of the project is to have net zero emissions, and they're going to achieve that through using geothermal energy. The project intends to create 57% more usable space while also lowering energy consumption by 41%. So if you are interested in this project, contracting, subcontracting, this is going to be, you know, environmental and sustainability requirements are no doubt going to be involved, and it will be important to show how your company has met those types of requirements in the past. This project overall is a great example of adaptive reuse, while also including, you know, even more sustainability components. Okay. The primary smart tag for this project is cultural facilities construction services. We can see the trend here is a bit of a plateau in recent years, but, overall, the bid and tender counts, you know, have nearly doubled in the five year period going from 42 to 74. The peak well, in 2023, bid and tenders reached a count of 74. And since then, there has been a bit of a plateau. So we can see that the market has stabilized at a higher level, albeit, not a lot of growth in the last couple of years, but still steady demand. Our second project in Alberta is for a bridge replacement. This project is valued at 66,000,000 Canadian dollars or about 48, million US dollars. The project is to replace the Smith Bridge over the Athabasca River. This bridge was actually built in 1945 by the US army. The bridge is now over 80 years old, so it is well past its seventy five year design life. The total the province of Alberta is investing 66,000,000, but the total project cost is going to be around 85,000,000 over three years, and that gap in funding is going to be provided by local government. Now in addition to the fact that the bridge is over 80 years old, it is also a one lane structure. It is not, it is not really equipped for major trucking or industrial loads. So oftentimes, it requires drivers to take a 60 kilometer detour, which does end up constraining the movement of forestry, oil, and gas equipment and supplies, through this part of the province. Now another complication, or another fact about this project is that it cannot the bridge the new bridge cannot just be built next to the old bridge. There are some engineering complications. Notably, the slopes around the current bridge are unstable, which means that not only does the bridge need a new location, it also needs a new alignment. So it won't be, the replacement will not be similar to the old bridge. Once the old once the new bridge is constructed, the old bridge will be demolished. It was too expensive to preserve for his it will be too expensive to preserve for historical purposes. This project is interesting because it really is the culmination of decades of advocacy by the local government towards the province of Alberta. And finally, those decades of lobbying and advocacy have been converted into funding for the replacement of the bridge. And this is just a reminder that, you know, a lot of government projects like this one do represent years of behind the scenes momentum before they are hitting the bidding stage. The primary smart tag associated with this project is for road transportation infrastructure construction services. And this is a huge category. The amount of bids and tenders nearly doubled between 2021 and 2024, before leveling off a bit in 2025. So the peak of this was in 2024, at about 5,800 opportunities. And then, like I mentioned, leveling off to just over 5,000 opportunities in 2025. So we're seeing that demand in this market may be moderating a bit after that peak growth. Okay. The final opportunity in this category is in the territory, or is in Yukon, which the project is for community housing green retrofits. The project is valued at 4,000,000 Canadian dollars or about 2,800,000 US dollars. This project supports, a program called our clean future, which is Yukon's ten year climate strategy, developed with Yukon first nations and municipalities. The goal of the retrofits is to cut down greenhouse gas emissions from community housing by 30% while also improving energy efficiency. So the project will essentially entail, various types of retrofits that conserve energy, and cut down on c o two emissions. Now this is the only example of a lead alert in today's webinar that does not come from the most recent budget cycle. So this lead alert was actually sourced from the twenty twenty four twenty five capital plan in Yukon. However, the funding is not slated, until next year. So this is a very good example of a project that had a very long lead time. Now compared to the other projects, you know, this is a bit of a smaller dollar value, but still a very strategically important project. And one thing to keep in mind is that there may be some northern or indigenous partnership components, due to the location of Yukon and the way that this Our Clean Future strategy came together initially. Okay. The primary smart tag associated with this project is climatology services, which has experienced the bids and tenders in this category have experienced some fluctuations over the past five years. You can see that opportunities peaked in 2023 at 93, bids and tenders, declined a bit in 2024 before having some renewed growth in 2025, which signals some positive momentum in this market. Alright. That concludes our provincial and territorial section. And before we get into our three federal opportunities, there is one more survey for the audience. Alright. So thank you, Bryn. A quick poll survey here to change things up a little bit. And we're asking you, what is your organization's outlook for Canadian government contracting opportunities over the next twelve months? Is it, significant increase in opportunities, a moderate increase in opportunities, no significant change, moderate decrease in opportunities, significant decrease in opportunities, or unsure. So we'll give you some time here, ten or fifteen seconds more to answer this, and then we'll continue on with the webinar. Alright. So most of you are are saying, moderate increase in opportunities, which is good. It's good. We're not we're not seeing anyone say really a decrease. Alright. So with that, I'll hand it back to Brynn, and she'll continue on with top Canadian federal opportunities. Brynn? Alright. Thank you. And I think that the results of that survey are, you know, positive showing some positive positivity in, you know, a market that has experienced a lot of turmoil over the past year and a half. Even though the market is becoming more competitive, it seems like there is overall more more opportunity and more contracting dollars to go around. Alright. Let's move into our final section for today, which is our three federal opportunities. Again, these projects are pulled from our database of bid notifications and specifically from RFIs. The first project is for defense consulting. The government of Canada is looking for defense expert analysis and assistance. Even though this project is related to defense, the procurement the the owner of this procurement is public services and procurement procurement Canada. This project is valued at approximately $16,700,000, and that is an estimate based on the incumbent contract. Though, generally, a fall you know, a rebid would end up being slightly more money or slightly more valuable. But, again, that's just an estimate. The RFI related to this project is expect or was released in June 2026. And this is actually our only project where we're anticipating, a different where we're not anticipating that the solicitation comes out in q one of twenty twenty seven. It's actually estimated to come out, in q four of twenty twenty seven, so in the final few months of the year. And then the project is also, estimated or the contract would be estimated at about five years. So the consulting services, in this project are going to support the national new defense investment agency, and other related defense initiatives. PSPC is considering using a dynamic task competition model where multiple suppliers prequalify for the bid or prequalify for the project and then compete for individual task orders, after being prequalified. The the solicitation will likely require enhanced reliability status and protected b clearance. Those are two security levels. It will also you will also possibly have to show Canadian value added, which is a new criteria under the buy Canadian policy. This project, given the use of the dynamic task competition model, it is worth flagging this project because it will change how firms think about, qualifying and bidding on this opportunity. The primary smart tag, associated with this opportunity is management consulting services. This is an area this category is an area of very high demand, nationwide, but we can see that between 2021 and 2024, opportunities, in this category nearly quadrupled. So very significant growth. Opportunities did ease back a bit to about 709 or 700, about 700 opportunities in 2025, but still that is, at a very high level of demand. Our second federal opportunity is for AI enabled trans an AI enabled translation solution. This is being the agency in charge of this is the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which is a federal Crown corporation. The estimated value is between 10,000,000 and $20,000,000. An RFI for the project was issued in August 2026. We know that the solicitation is expected in the first quarter of next year, and we also know based off the RFI that the estimated contract duration is five years. So the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation currently uses more of a a sentence based translation workflow, and they want to change that to a machine translation and human post editing model. What that means is that it would essentially leverage AI, specifically, using neural machine translation and large language models. So that is the specific technology that the Crown Corporation is looking for. In the RFI, they also noted that the system would need to integrate with Microsoft three sixty five. Vendors would need, at a minimum, protected b security, and there would need to be the inclusion of human in the loop workflows. Now this is really a great example or a good case study for how AI and large language model adoption is reaching even back office government functions like translation. And we've already seen a lot of bids coming out like this, and we expect many more to be released, in the coming years. Alright. The primary smart tag associated with this project is translation services. Now the count the bid and tender counts here peaked in 2023 before demand has kind of stabilized at a more moderate level, in the last two years. So we're down to a account of about one thirty in 2025. So we can see that there is sustained demand in this area just at a more moderate level now. Okay. Our final opportunity, for today is aircraft system support services. This opportunity is owned by the Department of National Defense. The estimated value is between 25 and $60,000,000, and the estimated contract duration is five to ten years. The RFI for this project was issued in July of this year, and the solicitation is expected, in q one of next year. The project is specifically seeking aircraft arresting systems maintenance. So an aircraft arresting system, if you are not familiar, is something that is deployed, in the case of an emergency landing or some type of malfunction. So they're looking for a maintenance contract, specifically, at three different Arctic Forward operating locations. Those are an Arctic Forward operating location is a smaller type of base, that's only has, like, a handful of people that staff it full time. And for this specific project, the there are three locations that there that were included, two in the Northwest Territories and one in Nunavut. Now the RFI did call out some specific performance targets, so the selected vendor would be expected to complete incident response in five minutes, rerigging in fifteen minutes, and service restoration in twenty minutes. Any personnel at a minimum, would need secret level clearance, though additional security requirements could be, added later. And then it is very important that the potential vendor would have Northern or Arctic logistics experience. That will be a huge differentiator, in submitting a proposal. Alright. The primary smart tag associated with this is aircraft repair services. This category has experienced quite a bit of fluctuation over five years, though we can see that 2025 was really a rebound year. You know, ex essentially, you know, pretty strong growth between 2024 and '25, just more of a fluctuating up and down path to get there. But, overall, some positive momentum in 2025. Alright. That concludes our 10 opportunities. Let's take a look at some of the key takeaways from today's research. So Canada's 2027 procurement pipeline reflects a diverse mix of priorities across all three levels of government. We can see that infrastructure really leads the pipeline, which does make sense considering the nature of capital improvement plans. Five out of the 10 opportunities involved infrastructure. Specifically, we saw a lot of transportation initiatives, cultural facilities, and housing. The second takeaway is that technology modernization is accelerating. Three opportunities involved technology. We had the cybersecurity strategy, the new property appraisal system, as well as AI enabled translation. Defense defense spending remains strong. And, you know, the past few years, there have been some pretty big defense budgets or defense programs that, included in the federal budget. And so those years were particularly strong in terms of defense, but spending in this industry is not slowing down. And we saw that two of our opportunities this year reflected sustained investment in defense, specifically in consulting and northern military support. So the final takeaway, again, is that q one of twenty twenty seven is a critical window. Nine out of the 10 projects are expected to reach a solicitation, in the first few months of the of the next or of our upcoming year, so vendors should be preparing now. Okay. So if you're interested in exploring some further gov win analysis, This is just a helpful little chart to explain how lead alerts can help you manage your business development pipeline. Essentially, the way it works is that a budget will be released. The our gov win or our Deltek analysts will comb through those budgets and other types of planning documents, convert, you know, any well developed, you know, more informative initiatives into lead alerts. You can then go through our database and identify things of interest to your company, use that intelligence, use the other intelligence in GovWind to prepare a bid and then ultimately bid and win a contract. The idea with our lead alerts is that if you are looking to track opportunities as they develop, that's exactly what the lead alert database is for. Another quick piece of additional analysis I wanted to mention was an recent report that specifically focused on Canada's federal procurement market. So we took a closer look into the billions of dollars in spending that the federal government does. We spotlighted four key markets, construction, defense, professional services, and IT. And for each of those markets, we really dove into who the top vendors are, what are the top, you know, goods and services, as well as the top departments. So if you're interested in that type of analysis, that report is free to download. Alright. One final question for our audience. Alright. So, last poll question. This one will not be shared. We're just asking if you would like to speak with a Deltek sales rep to access a free trial of GovWinIQ. You should have the option on your screen there to respond yes or no. And I believe that option will stay up as we move on into the q and a. And with that said, I will hand it back to Brynn for q and a. Brynn? Alright. Thank you. If you have any questions, please feel free to submit them. I know we received a couple of questions ahead of the webinar. Let me pull those up. A couple of different questions came in phrased a bit differently, but kind of achieving the same thing. Just asking about where to find or how to navigate upcoming government contracts and how to secure them. So, again, this presentation, I think, was a good first way of answering the question. I mean, the most important thing is that you have some type of early visibility into what governments are going to do and the types of projects that they will be releasing. The lead alert database is a great way to get that type of forward looking intelligence, Building relationships with key, you know, government stakeholders is another great way, of, you know, getting ahead of the game. Also, when you are building those relationships, that can help. It just helps it just helps generally with having a better understanding of what government is looking for, you know, beyond just strictly the requirements, what kind of vendor they might be looking for. So I would say those are two important ways of understanding you know, of finding upcoming government contracts. Of course, you also have the database of bid notifications. You can if you are a GovWind subscriber, you can have those notifications emailed to your inbox, I believe, multiple times a day, or you'll get an email daily summarizing all the relevant opportunities for your business. So, again, these are all just different ways of really staying on top of what's happening in the market. If the bid is already several days old, you're just finding out about it. It's already a little late, to be kind of putting yourself in the field of competition. So if we don't have any more questions, I think we can wrap up for today. Alright. So thanks everybody for participating. 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