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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

The Board of Governors of Lethbridge College

Total sole-source dollars
$2,558,771
Sole-source contracts
6
Distinct ministries
5

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

Per-year, per-ministry breakdown of this vendor's sole-source contract dollars.

  • 2015-2016: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $292,000.
  • 2017-2018: JUSTICE AND SOLICITOR GENERAL $1,200,000.
  • 2018-2019: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $310,000.
  • 2020-2021: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $611,271.
  • 2022-2023: Agriculture, Forestry And Rural Economic Development $71,000.
  • 2023-2024: Agriculture and Irrigation $74,500.

Every sole-source contract

Verbatim from Alberta Open Data. Where the upstream published no work description or sole-source justification code, the field renders as .

Every sole-source contract attributed to this vendor: amount, ministry, fiscal year, contract dates, work description, and the upstream-published sole-source justification code.
AmountMinistryFYPeriodWork descriptionNSC code
$1,200,000JUSTICE AND SOLICITOR GENERAL2017-20182018-03-312023-03-31Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Lethbridge College Training Programg
$611,271COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-012023-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$310,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2018-20192018-09-012021-09-01Green Certificate Program Service Deliveryb
$292,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2015-20162015-09-012018-08-30Delivery of regional Green Certificate Programb
$74,500Agriculture and Irrigation2023-20242023-04-012024-03-31Delivery of the Green Certificate Programb
$71,000Agriculture, Forestry And Rural Economic Development2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Green Certificate Program Regional Service Deliveryb

Recurring-justification findings

This vendor is not named in any recurring-justification cluster in the current evidence build.

Vendor-scope-drift findings

This vendor has no qualifying vendor-scope-drift pair in the current evidence build.

What we cannot tell you yet

Three publishing gaps in the Alberta open-data surface limit how far this deep-dive can go. Each is a real gap in current publishing, not an aspiration.

Amendment linkage

Alberta publishes contract amendments as standalone rows; the linkage back to the parent contract is not in the open data. Without it, this page cannot show a vendor's amendment-creep trajectory or aggregate amended dollars to the original award.

Bid history

The sole-source register publishes the chosen vendor and a justification code, not the bidders that competed (or were dis-invited). A vendor's competitive-pressure profile cannot be reconstructed from the public record.

Line-item / unit-price detail

Contracts publish a single total dollar value. Unit prices, hours billed, materials cost, and rate cards are not in the open data, so price-per-unit comparisons across vendors and ministries are not feasible from this disclosure alone.