Procurement: lobbying and City contracts

Many procurement communications are permitted contact with designated staff. These lists describe timing only and link each record so readers can assess it against the procurement rules of the lobbying by-law.

Published amounts over $1 billion appear to be data-entry errors in the source; they are shown as published on contract rows and left out of totals.

182 contracts carry a placeholder amount under $1 instead of a contract value (shown as “No value published”). 545 contracts have no amount published. Both are left out of totals.

32% of contract value ($6.7B of $21.2B) went to the 354 suppliers that appear on a lobbyist registration.

Communications on a City supplier's registrations dated between a solicitation's issue date and submission deadline, where the supplier was awarded that solicitation, or (for procurement registrations) has been awarded competitive contracts in the same category by the same division. Bidder lists are not published, so the category match uses the supplier's own awards.

Suppliers that do not appear as a client or named party on any registration. Not every contact requires registration; this list reports what the registry shows.

Share of contracts in each scope awarded without competition, with the reasons stated in the source. Amounts as published. Divisions with fewer than 20 contracts are not shown.

By division

By supplier

Sources: TOBids awarded contracts, non-competitive contracts, open solicitations, and the Lobbyist Registry (City of Toronto open data). Solicitation windows come from the open solicitations file, which lobbyTO keeps as a daily snapshot. Older windows are only known where the City's file still lists them.