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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Wheatland Crisis Society

Total sole-source dollars
$1,137,479
Sole-source contracts
6
Distinct ministries
2

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

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

  • 2015-2016: HUMAN SERVICES $557,891.
  • 2016-2017: HUMAN SERVICES $289,794.
  • 2018-2019: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $144,897.
  • 2019-2020: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $144,897.

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
$439,217HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-03-012016-06-30Women's emergency shelterb
$253,570HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012018-03-31Child Intervention Early Childhood Development and Early Interventiond
$144,897CHILDREN'S SERVICES2018-20192018-04-012019-03-31Child Intervention Early Childhood Development and Early Interventiond
$144,897CHILDREN'S SERVICES2019-20202019-04-012020-03-31Child Intervention, Early Childhood Development and Early Interventiond
$118,674HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-10-012016-03-31Women's emergency shelterb
$36,224HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-04-012016-06-30Family violence preventiond

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.