Procure-to-pay · Canada

Built in Canada, for how Canada buys.

One system from request to payment. It follows Contract A / Contract B rules and the NWPTA and CFTA thresholds. Defensible for a municipality. Fast for a growing company.

The whole system costs less than one junior buyer’s salary.

Contract A aware NWPTA · CFTA built in Public & private sector Hosted in Canada · your region on request
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Procurement Rules generated for a Canadian public buyer — NWPTA and CFTA thresholds in force
The real settings screen

Not a currency symbol. The whole Canadian rulebook.

This is the real settings screen. Choose Canada and it sets CAD, your province’s sales taxes (GST, HST, PST or QST) and the NWPTA / CFTA thresholds. All of it applies from day one.

  • Currency, tax and thresholds set for Canada from day one
  • NWPTA and CFTA thresholds, plus the Canada–Korea federal services floor. Loaded by type of purchase and type of body: municipal, MASH, provincial, federal.
  • Need another region? Switch it on this screen. Nothing else to set up.
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Region profile settings — Canada
Region ProfileCAD · your province's sales-tax stack · NWPTA/CFTA thresholds.
Public sector Municipal · MASH · Provincial · Federal

Procurement you can defend, from notice to payment.

For municipalities, MASH bodies, provincial and federal buyers, Crown corporations and Indigenous economic-development corporations. Where you must prove the process was fair.

  • Trade-agreement thresholds built in. NWPTA, CFTA and the Canada–Korea federal services floor are checked on every requisition. CETA and CPTPP floors are built on request.
  • Contract A / Contract B fairness. Sealed bids. Scorers do not see price. Minimum scores enforced.
  • Required posting periods and standstill, enforced by the system, not a checklist
  • Debrief letters, assessment summaries and an audit binder. Your record if an award is challenged.
  • Conflict-of-interest checks, delegation of authority and segregation of duties throughout
  • Hosted in Canada today. Data must stay in another country? A dedicated instance there is possible by separate agreement.
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Procurement Rules, generated from this organisation's live configuration
Methodology PlaybookEvery Canadian route, Contract A included.
The real figures

The threshold that applies, province by province.

Mandatory open-tender thresholds · current to 2026–2027
CFTA NWPTA (west) Annex 519.1 (north) Federal A $12,000 goods purchase is exempt in Ontario. In British Columbia it is a covered tender. Atlas applies the lowest trade-agreement floor for you. Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have their own rules. There Atlas applies an interim floor until your figures are set at onboarding. Each one shows what its local rules require.
Reaching suppliers

No private supplier network needed. The public portal already is one.

Suppliers already watch their region’s public portal. You post the required notice there. It points bidders to Atlas, and Atlas runs the competition.

1

Post the notice once

Post where your jurisdiction requires: BC Bid, CanadaBuys or SEAO. In BC, a BC Bid post forwards to CanadaBuys automatically. One notice meets both provincial and federal obligations.

2

Send bidders to Atlas

The notice sends suppliers to Atlas. They register, download the documents, ask questions and submit. The portal is free to browse. Atlas is free to bid in.

3

Run it all in Atlas

Sealed bids, blind scoring, standstill, debrief and audit binder. Then award, contract, PO, receipt, invoice and payment.

What suppliers pay

Free for every supplier to bid. Always.

Suppliers see the tender free and bid in Atlas free. Here is what paid platforms charge just to submit:

What a supplier pays to submit a bidThe vendors’ own published fees · Aug 2026
  • AtlasFree — always
  • CanadaBuys (federal portal)Free
  • BC BidBrowsing free · $150/yr e-Bidding subscription to submit electronically
  • bids&tendersBrowsing free · ~$170/yr or ~$45/bid to submit
  • MERX~$15/mo subscription + a per-bid electronic-submission fee
  • SAP AribaFree until 5 docs & US$50k with a buyer, then subscription + 0.155–0.35% of volume

Coupa and Euna/Bonfire don’t charge suppliers either. But only Atlas does it while enforcing your jurisdiction’s procurement rules end to end.

Same purchase. Two provinces. Two outcomes.

A ministry needs $20,000 of equipment. The request is the same. The province changes, and so does what Atlas allows.

British ColumbiaNWPTA
Goods$10,000
Services$75,000
Construction$100,000
Open tender required

$20,000 is over BC’s $10,000 goods floor. Atlas sends it to open competition and blocks a direct purchase order.

OntarioCFTA
Goods$34,700
Services$139,000
Construction$139,000
Direct award permitted

The same $20,000 is under Ontario’s $34,700 goods floor. The law requires no tender, so the buyer orders directly.

One requisition. Atlas checks the jurisdiction, type of body and category, then finds the floor that applies. A competition in one province. A direct order in the other. Both defensible.

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Sourcing pipeline
Sourcing & EvaluationRFQ to sealed tender, with committee scoring.
The whole tender in one place

Run the tender, keep the record.

From a quick RFQ to a formal sealed-bid RFT. Invitations, questions, amendments, sealed bids, scoring and award are all kept on file.

  • Sealed bids stay hidden until a named person opens them
  • Scorers rate quality without seeing price. Price is scored automatically.
  • Pass/fail requirements and minimum scores are enforced, not advisory
  • Every question, addendum and score kept for the audit binder
Private sector Mid-market · Construction · Manufacturing

Control spend. Manage suppliers.

For Canadian companies that want the visibility and control a CFO expects. Without a six-figure suite or a year-long rollout.

  • See and cut spend that skips the process. Put more of it under contract.
  • Approvals and delegation that match your own sign-off limits
  • A full view of each supplier’s risk and performance. Hard blocks stop the wrong vendor.
  • Contracts with renewal alerts. Standing arrangements for repeat buys.
  • Connects to eleven accounting systems. QuickBooks Online, Xero, Business Central and Sage Accounting are proven on live ledgers. NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Sage 300, Sage X3, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion and BILL are built. Each is proven on your own ledger at onboarding. Older ledgers pull a feed.
  • Construction. Provincial prompt-payment deadlines and statutory holdback for the owner tier.
  • Live in days to weeks, not a year
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Spend analysis in CAD
Spend AnalysisUnder-contract, off-process and cycle times — in CAD.
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Supplier master
Supplier MasterRisk, performance and lifecycle in one view.
Know who you're paying

Suppliers managed, not just listed.

One full record for each supplier: risk, performance and status. The details that get abused are controlled. So a purchase never reaches the wrong supplier.

  • No awards to suspended, on-hold or debarred suppliers
  • Bank-detail changes are locked down. It is the most abused field in procurement.
  • A supplier portal. Suppliers register, quote, get POs, send invoices and get paid. They keep their own documents and bank details up to date.
  • Certificates and documents chased automatically before they expire
  • Spend with diverse and local suppliers tracked for reporting
The gap it fills

Everything the current tools make you stitch together.

Procurement teams often juggle a tender portal, spreadsheets, email and a finance system. Atlas puts it all in one place, for public and private buyers.

Tender portals put your RFP online. Evaluation, contracts, POs and invoices are left to spreadsheets and email.
Atlas runs the whole cycle. Evaluation, award, contract, PO, receipt, invoice and payment, in one flow with a full audit trail.
Sourcing-only tools stop at award. The contract, the spend and the three-way match are left to you.
Atlas goes all the way to payment. With three-way match and the journal your finance team needs.
Most tools were built for the public or the private sector. Not both.
One system serves both. Trade-agreement rules on for a public body. Lean for a company.
Enterprise suites can do it all. For six figures a year and a twelve-month rollout.
A fraction of the cost and time. Set up, hosted in Canada and live in days to weeks.
Products hosted abroad can’t help a public body whose data must stay in Canada.
Hosted in Canada. Workspace data sits in Toronto. We name every provider that handles it.
Generic workflow tools miss Contract A, trade agreements and UNSPSC codes.
Built for procurement. Contract A, trade-agreement thresholds and UNSPSC codes are built in.
Contracts & finance

Award to payment, with no handover.

The contract, its milestones and its value flow straight to your finance system. No retyping. No manual handoff to AP.

  • E-signature, milestones, obligations and retention, all on record
  • Standing arrangements let buyers order at agreed prices without re-tendering
  • Coded bills post to all eleven connected ledgers. Journals post to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Business Central, Sage, Sage Intacct and NetSuite. SAP S/4HANA and Oracle Fusion journals are built on request.
  • Renewal and expiry alerts before anything lapses
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Contract management
Contract ManagementLive, renewing, and never out of sight.
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