Opportunity brief
ClosedSubscription to metal and minerals economic data.
The Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to provide senior management with detailed and accurate information on gold, silver, platinum group metals (PGMs), and other precious metals, including price forecasts; projections on supply and demand components; scenario outlooks for precious metals markets; detailed information about gold mine operations and gold markets; and other relevant information. NRCan will require access to a subscription to proprietary precious-metals market intelligence, historical data, forecasts, investment analysis, and gold mine cost data covering gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, and related precious-metals markets. The work will involve conducting thorough, data-driven research and sound economic analysis of the gold, silver, PGMs, and other precious metals markets and produce datasets, reports, briefing notes, presentations, and other materials that will help inform policy decisions. NRCan will also require user support as needed for questions surrounding the data, the web-based platform, and plug-ins and other online tools if available within three (3) business days.
- Mining, Energy & Industrial
- Public sector
- Canada

- Buyer / issuer
- Department of Natural Resources (NRCan)
- Sector
- Mining, Energy & Industrial
- Country / region
- Ontario, Canada
- Public or private
- Public sector
- Closing date
- 21 Oct 2026, 16:00 SAST
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Submission method
- As per the notice on CanadaBuys
- Tender number
- NRCan-5000096954
- Status
- Closed
Scope summary
The Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to provide senior management with detailed and accurate information on gold, silver, platinum group metals (PGMs), and other precious metals, including price forecasts; projections on supply and demand components; scenario outlooks for precious metals markets; detailed information about gold mine operations and gold markets; and other relevant information. NRCan will require access to a subscription to proprietary precious-metals market intelligence, historical data, forecasts, investment analysis, and gold mine cost data covering gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, and related precious-metals markets. The work will involve conducting thorough, data-driven research and sound economic analysis of the gold, silver, PGMs, and other precious metals markets and produce datasets, reports, briefing notes, presentations, and other materials that will help inform policy decisions. NRCan will also require user support as needed for questions surrounding the data, the web-based platform, and plug-ins and other online tools if available within three (3) business days.
Category: SRV
Key requirements
- Procurement method: Advance contract award notice
- Briefing session: Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Eligibility and evaluation: set out in the tender documents. Check mandatory returnables, registrations and scoring before you commit.
Required documents
The tender pack is published with the original notice. Use “Download Tender Pack” to open it.
Important dates
- Published
- 07 Oct 2026
- First seen by Atlas
- 09 Oct 2026
- Briefing session
- Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Submission deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 16:00 SAST
Commercial snapshot
- Estimated value
- Not stated in the notice
- Contract type
- Advance contract award notice
- Category
- SRV
- Source
- CanadaBuys
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