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Public Services and Procurement Canada

What Public Services and Procurement Canada spent in fiscal year 2017-18: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Public Services and Procurement Canada does

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is the federal department responsible for centralized procurement, real estate management, pay and pension administration for federal employees, and translation services across the Government of Canada. It works to ensure that government departments have the goods, services, and infrastructure they need to operate while maintaining transparency, fairness, and value for taxpayers.

Spending, 2017-18

Net spending, 2017-18

$3.66B

spent by Public Services and Procurement Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2017-18

1.4%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Public Services and Procurement Canada spend its budget in 2017-18?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2017-18

Professional and special services

Personnel

Rentals

Repair and maintenance

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Utilities, materials and supplies

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Transportation and communications

Information

Transfer payments

External revenues

Internal revenues

$1.98B

$1.36B

$1.22B

$1.17B

$571M

$488M

$242M

$132M

$77.9M

$20.8M

$6.8M

-$397M

-$3.21B

Total: $3.66B.

Spending by program, 2017-18

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $3.66B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2017-18

Full-time equivalents

13,580

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$1.36B

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$100K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.

Transfer payment programs, 2017-18

The grants, contributions and other transfers Public Services and Procurement Canada paid, program by program: $6.8M in all, against $6.8M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Payment in lieu of taxes to municipalities and other taxing authoritiesPaymentsGrant$579,548,157
Recoveries from custodian departmentsPaymentsGrant-$572,758,174
2 programs$6,789,983

Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$7,053,522$15,707,569$10,538,518$19,817,380$53,116,989
2024$6,279,769$17,068,500$9,577,371$23,906,809$56,832,449
2023$3,209,202$19,215,210$8,961,042$24,494,627$55,880,081
2022$6,104,761$16,411,921$9,144,097$7,513,376$39,174,155
2021$3,054,574$14,735,525$9,725,196$20,015,907$47,531,202
2020$3,297,670$16,870,623$10,346,682$23,339,954$53,854,928
2019$7,761,972$20,305,320$17,355,790$29,637,527$75,060,608
2018$4,586,564$21,088,421$18,175,430$26,119,451$69,969,865
2017$3,260,059$19,616,136$14,531,097$25,429,561$62,836,853

Public Services and Procurement Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Public Services and Procurement