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Scientific and engineering software delivers, enables and supports specialized scientific and engineering components, functions and features. Scientific and engineering software provides the scientific or engineering functional resources and services required within a scientific or engineering computing environment.

Category NameMandateService Line
1102 CAD, CAE & CAM SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Computer aided design (CAD), engineering (CAE) and manufacturing (CAM) software provides design, engineering, and or manufacturing tools to create, manage and output technical drawings and processes.
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1104 Engineering Analysis SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Engineering analysis software has the functionality of separating engineering designs into the mechanisms of operation or failure, analyzing or estimating each component of the operation or failure mechanism in isolation, and re-combining the components according to basic physical principles and natural laws.
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1106 Equipment Control Systems SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Equipment control systems software manages, commands, directs or regulates the behaviour of other devices or systems.
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1108 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Geographic information system (GIS) software captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to a location. GIS is the merging of cartography and database technology.
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1110 Geo-spatial SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Geo-spatial software is software that uses analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic data sets.
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1112 Lab & Medical Equipment SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Lab and medical equipment software interfaces with lab and/or medical equipment to control and/or receive, interpret, and manipulate data output from the device.
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1114 Mapping and Cartography SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Mapping and cartography software offers users the ability to create and work with geographic maps, information or data functions.
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1116 Mathematical and Computational SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Mathematical and computational software is used to model, analyze, or calculate numeric, symbolic, or geometric data.
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1118 Statistical Analysis SoftwareThis category does not fall within SSC's mandate, and therefore, if able, please purchase under your departmental authority, and if not, please submit to PSPC.
Statistical analysis software is used for data analysis, manipulation, and the planning of the collection of data, in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.
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