US Embassy Ottawa

The Department of State's US Embassy Ottawa awards contracts to support diplomatic operations and facility management at the Canadian capital mission. The Embassy, as a sub-agency of the State Department, procures goods and services necessary for embassy staffing, compound maintenance, and bilateral engagement activities in Canada. Contracting is executed against foreign and domestic vendors, with the overwhelming majority of transactional activity involving miscellaneous foreign awardees.

The Embassy has issued 123 federal contract awards since 2015, with a combined potential value of $5.7 million and $4.6 million obligated (81% of potential). Award cadence over the last five years was 21 contracts in 2022, 31 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 8 year-to-date in 2026. The most recently recorded award date was October 13, 2026.

Contract competition is highly concentrated among foreign vendors. Over the last five years, miscellaneous foreign awardees account for 81 percent of recent awards by count and 76 percent of combined potential value. Four distinct groupings of miscellaneous foreign awardees collectively represent the bulk of activity: one cohort with 39 awards valued at $1.7 million, another with 20 awards valued at $621 thousand, two additional cohorts each holding 8 awards valued at $511 thousand and $373 thousand respectively. The single largest award on record went to 13326829 Canada Inc. at $1.1 million potential value (one award). NFP Canada Corp. rounds out the top tier with 6 awards and $79 thousand in potential value. Across the portfolio, 24 distinct prime contractors have been awarded at least one contract.

All 123 awards fall outside small-business set-asides or other federal set-aside categories, reflecting the Embassy's reliance on foreign procurement and domestic support vendors without set-aside designation.

The Embassy is not currently posting new contract opportunities on the federal contracting platforms in its recent solicitation activity; recent awards represent fulfillment of prior solicitations or modifications to existing task orders and agreements.