Healthcare & Pharma tenders in Canada

174 open notices

Medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, consumables, diagnostics and hospital-services contracts from health departments and institutions.

Who buys healthcare & pharma in Canada

These are the organisations with the most healthcare & pharma notices open in Canada right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Healthcare & Pharma market snapshot

Since 28 May 2024, FreeTender has recorded 220 healthcare & pharma notices in Canada, 134 of them open today. The median bid window is 31 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is CAD 925 thousand (102 priced notices).

Notices on record: 220
Open now: 134
Median bid window: 31 days
Median stated value: CAD 925 thousand

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Most active healthcare & pharma buyers

Centre d'acquisitions gouvernementales19 notices
Santé Québec Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Québec – Universitaire10 notices
Santé Québec Bas-Saint-Laurent9 notices
3sHealth7 notices
Santé Québec Laurentides6 notices
Santé Québec Gaspésie5 notices
City of Medicine Hat5 notices
Santé Québec Montérégie-Est5 notices
Santé Québec Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean – Universitaire5 notices
eHealth Saskatchewan5 notices

By sub-sector

Medical Equipment74 notices
Medicines & Drugs10 notices
Hospital Services6 notices
Lab & Diagnostics5 notices

Where the work is

Québec — Montréal25 notices
Saskatchewan25 notices
Québec — Capitale-Nationale18 notices
Québec — Montérégie17 notices
Québec — Bas-Saint-Laurent, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Capitale-Nationale14 notices
Ontario11 notices
Québec — Bas-Saint-Laurent10 notices
Québec — Laurentides7 notices
Québec — Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine7 notices
Alberta5 notices

Procedures used

Open tender126 notices
Expression of interest34 notices
Grant / funding call26 notices
Request for proposal19 notices
Request for quotation9 notices
Prequalification4 notices
rfi2 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

Across the healthcare & pharma notices we currently hold for Canada, the most common form is the open tender or invitation to bid, followed by expression of interest, request for proposal and request for quotation. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Healthcare and pharma procurement covers medicines, medical devices, diagnostics, hospital consumables and facility services. These tenders frequently require regulatory approvals, quality certifications (such as GMP or ISO), sample submission and cold-chain or delivery commitments. Confirm the specifications, batch and shelf-life requirements, and any mandatory registration before bidding.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.