Absolutely.
As I said earlier—I would encourage members to take the time to read those documents, and I do hope you find them useful—we're at about $1.3 billion or $1.4 billion in procurements in 2019-20. Of that, 87% we would call competitive and, recognizing a member's question earlier, even when that is for requirements—a vendor—we force competition, as per questions from members here, to ensure the best possible price. That is part of what we do.
When there are urgent requirements, we have no choice. We have to go out. A particular system needs more memory. It can't keep up with the demands of COVID and the number of Canadians logging in. We need to do it quickly and surgically. We'll go out and do some non-competitive.... It's about 87%:13% in terms of competitive and non-competitive as it moves forward.
We're quite pleased with the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that are engaged in this. That, we think, is something that we would like to continue to do. We don't want to be just dealing with the large multinationals as this moves forward. We're quite happy with the number of small and medium-sized enterprises we are doing, but we would like to grow that number moving forward, and we would like to share with you better information about what we are doing moving forward on employment equity, on what we can be doing better for aboriginal businesses, Black-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, other employment equity and the disabled. We are improving our reporting requirements on that front.
I am pleased to say that in 2019 we awarded 117 contracts to indigenous businesses, for almost $36 million. It's good, but there's a long way to go to improve that number.