Procurement
Alberta’s sole-source spend.
Contracts awarded without competitive procurement, drawn from Alberta’s sole-source disclosure ledger and joined to the Blue Book vendor universe. The headline figures and the yearly trend below clip to FY 2015–16 onward (pre-cutoff disclosures are too sparse for trend comparison); the scope-drift section keeps the full vendor history so earliest-period contracts predating that cutoff still surface.
Plate I
Sole-source spend by fiscal year
Total contract dollars per fiscal year. The series begins at FY 2015–16, the producer's reliability cutoff.
Plate II
The sole-source vendor universe
Every vendor with at least one disclosed sole-source contract since FY 2015–16. Sortable by sole-source dollars, total spend, or name; click a row to drill into the vendor's full payment history.
Plate III
Recurring justification sentences
When the same justification sentence shows up across multiple ministries and many contracts, it is functioning as boilerplate rather than a contract-specific rationale.
Plate IV
Scope drift between original and latest awards
Vendor/ministry pairs whose latest sole-source justifications share little or no language with the earliest awards in the same relationship — a signal that the original scope no longer constrains what is being purchased.
Plate V
Vendors paid across the most ministries
Vendor concentration across ministries — the agency2026 finding behind 'ARI Financial across 30 ministries' lives here. Ministries threshold defaults to 3 (the producer's cutoff).