Fairness monitoring

The Fairness Monitoring Program provides client departments, government suppliers, Parliament and Canadians with independent assurance that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) conducts its procurement activities in a fair, open and transparent way.

Learn how fairness monitoring works

The program retains and manages the services of independent fairness monitors who act as objective third parties to observe all or part of a procurement activity.

Fairness monitoring helps PSPC to:

• provide real-time monitoring during the procurement process
• deal with fairness monitoring issues early in the process to avoid possible costly after-the-fact resolutions
• ensure that procurement activities are carried out with integrity
• enhance public trust in the way the Government of Canada does business

Access the fairness monitoring reports

Fairness monitors provide reports which contain their observations, impartial opinions and professional attestations on the monitored procurement activity.

The reports are available to the public and are subject to limits of disclosure under the:

• Access to Information Act
• Privacy Act, section 7