INDIgenius Canada, the Consulting Branch of EcoDesigns Corp., is an Indigenous-owned and federally-led incorporated company. We are a proud member of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB).

Our key team members have from 20 to 40 years of Indigenous experience. 

Put our powerful bid procurement search tools and proprietary database to work for you, and see how far your business can reach. 

INDIgenius will help get you there.

In competitive bidding, can you afford to lose 5%?

The Canadian federal government is mandating that bidding entities must include an Indigenous component on their proposals that may be worth 5% or more of the RFP’s evaluated total.

Engage with us and improve your business profile as a progressive firm that actively seeks to include Canada’s Indigenous community.

Include Canada’s Indigenous community and stand above your competitors.

Our team will work with your organization to market your company, find the opportunities, craft your submissions, and deftly include the Indigenous component that gives you the edge. 

About Us

Our team brings the power of 20 to 40 years of directly relevant experience in a vast range of business and project types of project management, construction, IT/IM, hydro electric, oil/gas, mining, military armament, forestry, program delivery, translation, etc. 

We have been directly involved in the award of billions of dollars of public sector solicitations.

Our powerful bid procurement search tools and proprietary database of over 350 public sector procurement sites across Canada enable us to keyword search for opportunities, ensuring none are missed. 

Our Services

Experience.

We operate in a vast range of business and project types.

Oil and Gas

The team has developed proven procurement tools for oil and gas development building upon leading industry practises. These include developing joint venture instruments with leading players in the pipeline industry and developing training and employment strategies to increase Indigenous participation.

Construction

The team has a broad capacity in developing commercial construction projects from conceptualization, to design and to actually construction. It has leveraged relationships with many construction and engineering companies across Canada. It has developed customized procurement templates to increase Indigenous participation.

Mining

The team has extensive experience in the mining industry helping both the Federal and Ontario governments update its Mining strategize to make them more inclusive of Indigenous people. It includes working with Mining Industry players update their Indigenous inclusion strategies.

Hydro Development

The team has developed numerous successful procurement instruments that have been used by public utilities to award. Team members have successfully bid contracts for all aspects of transmission line development.

Public Policy Procurements

The team has proven success in bidding and winning federal and provincial contracts in a wide range of social and economic public policy areas. The team has a strong statistical capacity to analyze socio-economic data and to build this information in to winning bids and for resulting successful contract awards. This includes undertaking census projects for some of Canada’s leading agencies.

Why Choose INDIgenius?

40 years of Indigenous experience

Indigenous benefit analysis, Indigenous business development, Indigenous policy implementation and more.

350+ public sector procurement websites

We keep and maintain a proprietary database of over 350+ public sector procurement websites that cross Canada. This enables us to keyword search for opportunities, ensuring no opportunity is missed.

relevant experience in a vast range of business and project types

Their directly relevant experience in a vast range of business and project types of project management, construction, IT/IM, hydro electric, oil/gas, mining, military armament, forestry, program delivery, translation, etc.

Billions of dollars in bid awards

Our team has been directly involved in the award of billions of dollars of public sector solicitations.

Working with us

Marc LeClair has a wealth of experience putting together strategic partnerships between Industry and indigenous entities including developing winning bid strategies for both private and public procurements. He is one of Canada’s leading developers of Indigenous procurement instruments.
David Chartrand
President, Manitoba Métis Federation
"We rely on Wei to use her many skills to prepare and present statistical data analysis that assists us in making business decisions that have benefited us immensely during her continued tenure with us. Wei has also been very effective in assisting us with International Trade ventures that we have taken part in worldwide. A true professional in every sense of the word."
Jack Park
Chairman, Métis N4 Construction
"Perry Simpson been there, done that, and is very much keeping pace with everything going on in the industry to guide you through your proposal or writing project. He takes the time to provided excellent suggestions based on his experience on how to take proposals to the next level. He works the files from end-to-end, and evaluates proposals from all sides. If you have ideas you wish to pursue or want to propose him as part of your team, go ahead, don’t think it twice."
Max Brault
Vice President, People & Change, Accessibility Consulting at BDO Canada and National Advisor and Advocate for Accessibility and the Accessibility Canada Network
"Kate has an amazing ability to translate complex concepts into powerful, meaningful and accessible visuals. Highly recommend her."
Alfred Aziz
Director General, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion at Health Canada

Include Indigenous. Bid More. Win More.

Let INDIgenius help you include the Indigenous component and give you the bidding edge.