For prime contractors structuring ITB strategies under Canada’s reformed Defence Industrial Strategy: the criteria have changed materially. NORTAC Defence is your highest-value compliant partner.
Canada’s updated ITB Terms and Conditions — expected in early 2026 — introduce an enhanced Canadian Company Boost multiplier for subcontract work directed to firms with 70–100% Canadian Content Value. The cap on SMB transaction values has been removed. New skills development and Indigenous workforce multipliers are added. The Future Sales Transaction has been updated to credit supply chain investments. Routing ITB obligations through Canadian subsidiaries of foreign firms will not satisfy the intent — or the letter — of the new framework.
NORTAC Defence delivers against every material ITB criterion:
— CCV exceeding 90%, qualifying your subcontracts for the maximum Canadian Company Boost multiplier — Facility Security Clearance and Document Safeguarding Certification, enabling immediate integration into sensitive and classified programme streams without additional accreditation overhead — Active Canadian R&D, domestically-owned intellectual property, and university and college partnerships satisfying the DIS’s innovation, skills development, and knowledge-transfer pillars — Canadian manufacturing and assembly through domestic partners, full domestic payroll tax compliance, and verifiable Canadian supplier sourcing — generating auditable, direct economic benefit — Primary sovereign capability alignment in Digital Systems and Sensors, with secondary alignment in Space and Uncrewed Systems — the exact categories where DIA-directed procurement will concentrate in 2026–2028 — Cross-domain C3 positioning: NORTAC does not serve one programme stream. It provides the command, control, and communications infrastructure that every sovereign capability area in the DIS depends on.
With the DIA operational, the procurement inventory publishing, and the $81.8 billion investment window open, the time to structure ITB partnerships is ahead of contract awards — not after. Firms that establish these partnerships in 2026 will hold structural advantages when directed procurement contracts flow at scale in 2027 and 2028.
NORTAC is registered, cleared, documented, and ready to engage at the programme level with prime contractors who are serious about meeting Canada’s new sovereign industrial requirements.
Connect with the NORTAC Defence leadership team to discuss how we anchor your ITB strategy with credible, compliant, and capable Canadian content.
