Federal spending by Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
3,419 records totalling $371,659,101.41 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.
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Where the money flows
Contracting
$324.0M
across 2,310 contracts over $10k
23.7%
of contract dollars awarded without competition (1,064 contracts)
70.3%
of contracts with known bid counts received one bid or fewer (1,161 reported)
"Without competition" counts solicitation codes TN (non-competitive) and AC (Advance Contract Award Notice). Non-competitive awards are legal and sometimes required; the rate is context, not a judgment.
Planned vs. actual spending
What Parliament authorised this organization to spend versus what it actually spent, across all its votes. Source: Public Accounts of Canada (via GC InfoBase). This covers the organization's entire budget, not just the grants and contracts listed below.
| Fiscal year | Authorised | Spent | Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | $211,816,258 | $202,442,088 | 95.6% |
| 2023-2024 | $181,032,287 | $170,044,589 | 93.9% |
| 2022-2023 | $168,335,501 | $152,966,165 | 90.9% |
| 2021-2022 | $156,273,441 | $143,540,298 | 91.9% |
| 2020-2021 | $153,184,397 | $139,527,021 | 91.1% |
| 2019-2020 | $154,044,427 | $147,965,383 | 96.1% |
| 2018-2019 | $155,106,016 | $148,923,106 | 96.0% |
| 2017-2018 | $156,189,963 | $149,793,305 | 95.9% |
| 2016-2017 | $147,718,258 | $137,126,030 | 92.8% |
| 2015-2016 | $145,040,408 | $137,968,668 | 95.1% |
Did it deliver? (2024-2025 results report)
Every department sets measurable performance targets and reports against them. Source: Departmental Results Reports via GC InfoBase — the department's own self-reported scorecard.
15
of 17 targets met
2
targets not met
0
not yet measurable or unavailable
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Number of self-identified Indigenous Nations, communities and organizations who participated in Commission proceedings
Target: Stable or increasing trend · Actual: 22
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Percentage of baseline compliance verifications activities completed
Target: — · Actual: 93.0
This contract was competitively sourced.
Security guard services - Commissionaires
Contribution agreement with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland to support phase 4 of the IMPACT project.
Professional services of a programmer analyst. This contract was issued against a supply arrangement.
Fitness to work & Pre-employement health assessments
Security guard services - Commissionaires
Transcription services for CNSC proceedings. This contract was competitively sourced.
Professional services of a senior programmer analyst. This contract was issued against a supply arrangement.
Professional services of a case management technology architect. Competitively sourced using the Public Works and Government Services Canada Supply Arrangement for Task-Based Informatics Professional...
Support a Contribution Agreement to conduct an international collaborative pooled analysis of cohorts of uranium processing workers to address questions concerning low exposure and low exposure rate h...
This contract was issued against a supply arrangement for a project manager.
Fitness to work & Pre-employement health assessments
Contribution agreement to support the International Pooled Analysis of Uranium Workers study.
Contribution Agreement with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) for the Halden Human-Technology-Organisation Program
Contribution Agreement with the Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire to support the TENOR Consortium.