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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

The Calgary John Howard Society

Total sole-source dollars
$244,849
Sole-source contracts
4
Distinct ministries
3

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

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

  • 2015-2016: JUSTICE AND SOLICITOR GENERAL $25,000.
  • 2022-2023: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $12,250.
  • 2023-2024: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $138,599.
  • 2024-2025: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $69,000.

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
$138,599SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$69,000SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2024-20252024-05-012026-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$25,000JUSTICE AND SOLICITOR GENERAL2015-20162015-10-132016-03-31Provides one designated bed space at a 24 hour residential facility for youth conditional supervision placement.b
$12,250COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-12-162023-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd

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.