Supporting Documentation: Government of Canada Spend Data
Definitions
- Commodity
- Goods or services utilized in everyday endeavours, which are identified by contents, physical nature or characteristics.
- Non-Sourceable Expenditures
- Any expenses wherein the price of goods and services are fixed and non-negotiable. These include fees, licenses, tolls, etc.
- Pass -Through Expenditures
- Any internal expenses as a result of intermediate of interdepartmental agreements (IDAs), MOUs etc
- Sourceable Expenditures
- Any expenses wherein the prices of goods and services are negotiable and subject to market forces.
- Spend Cube
- An interactive Database comprehensive, detailed and consistent spending information. This information is fed by departments and agencies across the government, with the help of the Business Analytics Services Directorate of Public Works and Government Services Canada.
- Spend Cube Taxonomy
- The Spend Cube`s categorization rubric used by the Business Analytics Services Directorate that details the hierarchical classification of expenditures by commodity group, commodity category and commodity subcategory.
- Not Classified
- Wherein the spend cube taxonomy (Category/Subcategory) has not been in applied to expenditure data.
- IDA
- Interdepartmental Agreements
General Note
In July 2025, as the data files of the Achived, GC Spend Data dataset were being migrated to new servers, it was noted that the Government of Canada Spend Data FY2012-2013 CSV file contained incomplete values for 29 of its rows, resulting in an under-reporting of $834,812.76 across all records in this file. The following rows were amended in this file to the correct values:
- Row 9, amount-montant changed from 62952771.67 to 62952809.02
- Row 26, amount-montant changed from 111622897.03 to 111644244.94
- Row 67, amount-montant changed from 88649908.86 to 88788103.61
- Row 87, amount-montant changed from 14847368.64 to 14855309.89
- Row 108, amount-montant changed from 65389005.17 to 65393128.27
- Row 116, amount-montant changed from 135709828.91 to 135710549.43
- Row 123, amount-montant changed from 22268327.45 to 22269147.19
- Row 134, amount-montant changed from 54120773.03 to 54136773.03
- Row 190, amount-montant changed from 44186582.90 to 44198313.82
- Row 273, amount-montant changed from 72096883.19 to 72096893.42
- Row 285, amount-montant changed from 25705892.41 to 25708143.54
- Row 292, amount-montant changed from 314296348.35 to 314322246.12
- Row 295, amount-montant changed from 46591722.18 to 46598219.42
- Row 296, amount-montant changed from 181486503.78 to 181495347.56
- Row 299, amount-montant changed from 45325340.26 to 45326035.06
- Row 305, amount-montant changed from 712929019.97 to 712996806.05
- Row 306, amount-montant changed from 75404478.06 to 75414682.52
- Row 308, amount-montant changed from 33858576.91 to 33935336.51
- Row 310, amount-montant changed from 183675966.93 to 183682742.47
- Row 318, amount-montant changed from 54575464.10 to 54575639.85
- Row 319, amount-montant changed from 70811746.97 to 70814283.03
- Row 323, amount-montant changed from 6118855.29 to 6120857.95
- Row 324, amount-montant changed from 41301652.83 to 41304343.10
- Row 326, amount-montant changed from 131995794.61 to 132001483.38
- Row 329, amount-montant changed from 40870373.57 to 40871656.15
- Row 335, amount-montant changed from 58058931.30 to 58470112.03
- Row 339, amount-montant changed from 146393236.80 to 146393886.30
- Row 342, amount-montant changed from 325710803.17 to 325710803.24
- Row 350, amount-montant changed from 19083142.77 to 19085112.97
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