Overview
Defence Procurement Strategy
We help Canadian companies understand the Industrial and Technological Benefits ecosystem, position capabilities under the right value proposition pillars, and prepare for conversations with primes, obligors, and defence-market partners.
Support primes before award through the VP or after award through ITB fulfillment.
Capability positioning and Canadian Content Value are central to ITB relevance.
Canadian SMBs can be strategically attractive under ITB tools and incentives.
We help convert technical capability into a procurement-facing commercial story.
What This Section Covers
ITB is not a normal grant program. It is a procurement-driven market access framework.
Canadian companies usually need help with fit, positioning, vocabulary, and business development sequence. This section is designed for contract-seeking firms that want to understand how to become useful inside the ITB ecosystem.
Policy Basics
When the policy applies, what ISED does, and why the value proposition matters.
KIC, VP, and CCV
The three concepts most companies need to understand before they approach primes seriously.
Supplier Pathways
How Canadian firms enter before award, after award, and through prime-contractor relationship building.
How We Help
We help companies become easier to buy, easier to credit, and easier to match.
The strongest ITB support is not generic business development. It is a mix of policy interpretation, capability positioning, transaction logic, and market-facing readiness.
Capability Positioning
We map your offer against KICs, value proposition pillars, and likely defence-market relevance.
CCV Awareness
We help clarify whether your Canadian cost structure supports stronger ITB attractiveness.
Prime-Facing Readiness
We help companies present themselves in a way primes can evaluate and use.
Opportunity Mapping
We help focus on realistic pathways instead of unfocused defence-market chasing.
Explore The ITB Guide
Part 01
Understand the Industrial and Technological Benefits framework, procurement thresholds, and the role of ISED.
Part 02
Learn how Key Industrial Capabilities (KICs), Value Proposition scoring, and Canadian Content Value drive prime contractor decisions.
Part 03
Navigate the two direct transaction routes Canadian suppliers take: pre-award teaming agreements and post-award fulfillment.
Part 04
Evaluate your technical certifications, CCV calculations, and prime-facing commercial materials before engaging buyers.
Want to know whether your company is usable inside an ITB transaction?
We can help assess your readiness, your KIC fit, your Canadian-content strength, and the most realistic pathway into the defence procurement ecosystem.