Navigating Public Services and Procurement Canada's Contract Security Program website
This tool helps our clients navigate Public Services and Procurement's Contract Security Program website. Select a topic to learn more.
Security requirements
- About security requirements
- Policy on Government Security
- Industrial Security Manual
- Levels of security
Register your organization
- Types of organization security clearances
- Getting sponsored
- Getting screened
- Estimated timelines for organization screenings
Screening for your personnel
- Personnel security screening process for:
- reliability status (request and update)
- security clearance (request and update)
- duplicate, transfer and reactivate a security status or clearance
- What forms need to be completed
- Company security officer's guide to completing and submitting personnel security screening forms (TBS/SCT 330-23E, TBS/SCT 330-60E and TBS/SCT 330-47)
- Complete forms online
- Online industrial security services (OLISS)
- Processing times
- Mandatory electronic fingerprints
Subcontracting
- Subcontracting security requirements
- Getting approval
- Subcontractor screening
- Completing the security requirements checklist (SRCL: TBS/SCT 350-103)
Work site security requirements
- Why you need to secure your work site (obtaining a document safeguarding capability)
- Site inspections
Information technology
Approval for visits to secure sites
- Requests for visit process
- How to get approval (completing the request for visit form)
- Types of visit requests
- Estimated processing times
International contract security requirements
- Security requirements for international contracts
- Bidding on classified contracts with foreign governments
- Subcontracting to foreign organizations
- International industrial security instruments
- Bidding on North Atlantic Treaty Organization contracts (NATO contracts)
Contract security training
Compliance
- Roles and responsibilities of a company security officer
- Reporting security incidents and changes in circumstances and behaviors