How public buying works, without the fog.
This is orientation, not legal advice. Rules live in statutes, trade agreements and each contracting authority's documents. HubGov helps you find and qualify notices. You still read the file.
SEAO
Québec public notices
CanadaBuys
Federal tenders
EN · FR
Bilingual workspace
Toronto
App and database
In one line
In Québec, many public calls appear on SEAO. Federally, CanadaBuys is the public storefront for a large share of tenders. Municipalities and Crown corporations may use those systems or their own. The language of the notice is the buyer's choice — often French in Québec, English, or both.
Four moves. Not another portal.
Drawn from how capture teams actually work — find, qualify, track, submit with the authority.
- 01
Find
One list of official SEAO and CanadaBuys notices. Filters that match how a supplier actually decides: province, level, type, closing window, value.
- 02
Qualify
An explainable Match score against the company you actually run — not a win-probability theatre, not a US NAICS set-aside model.
- 03
Track
The few files that deserve a bid land on a shared Kanban: owner, requirements, source URL, comments. Spreadsheets stop being the system of record.
- 04
Submit where it counts
HubGov is not a bidding portal. You still submit on SEAO, CanadaBuys or the authority's instructions. We exist for the week before that click.
What this page will stand behind.
Who can bid
Eligibility is in the notice: jurisdiction, mandatory forms, insurance, certifications, security. HubGov's score does not replace those gates. If a field is missing at the source, we show it as unavailable.
Where HubGov stops
We are a private Canadian company. We are not SEAO, CanadaBuys, or a government body. We do not submit bids and we do not interpret the law for a specific file.
A practical first week
Create the HubGov profile. Search Discover for your trade in QC and federal. Open three notices on the source site. Put one on the pipeline. Complete an Academy course if your admin has published one.
A typical path: the authority publishes a notice; interested suppliers obtain the documents; questions go to the contact named in the file; offers are submitted as instructed; an award may later appear in public disclosure. Missing a closing date is not a HubGov problem — it is why the date sits on the notice and on your pipeline card.
Not a portal. Not a bid network. Not a US proposal factory.
Teams compare HubGov to what they already know. Here is each job, without the slogan.
Canadian intelligence
HubGov
- Find, qualify and track public work in one bilingual workspace.
- Explainable fit against your profile. Kanban for the files you will actually bid.
- Not a government body. Not an e-bid network. Not a US proposal factory.
System of record
Official portals
- SEAO, CanadaBuys and the authority still publish, amend and receive offers.
- HubGov indexes what they make public so you are not living in five logins.
- Always open the source URL before you write a line of the bid.
A different job
Bid-access networks
- Some Canadian products are built around document access, plan-holders and a bid desk.
- That can be useful. It is not what HubGov ships: we do not submit your offer.
- If you need a marketplace, use one. If you need a capture brain, start here.
A different market
US proposal AI
- US GovCon tools often write volumes against SAM.gov and NAICS set-asides.
- HubGov does not write your technical volume and does not cover US state portals.
- Québec and federal Canada are bilingual, statutory, and a different operating system.
Questions we actually get.
French or English documents?+
Follow the notice. HubGov itself is bilingual. The contracting authority decides the language of the file.
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