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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Driftpile First Nation Enterprises Inc

Total sole-source dollars
$6,599,000
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.

  • 2014-2015: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $149,000.
  • 2017-2018: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $4,950,000.
  • 2023-2024: Forestry and Parks $1,500,000.

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
$3,500,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Firetack base crewh
$1,500,000Forestry and Parks2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Sole Source Firetack Crewg
$550,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Firefighter firetack base crewh
$450,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Base and Secondary Crewsh
$450,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Zero Day Crewsh
$149,000AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY2014-20152014-04-012017-03-31Base Day Firetrack Crewsh

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.