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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Bluefox Association

Total sole-source dollars
$39,886,079
Sole-source contracts
10
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: HUMAN SERVICES $1,226,087.
  • 2016-2017: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $184,064, HUMAN SERVICES $1,749,166.
  • 2017-2018: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $9,355,253.
  • 2018-2019: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $138,996.
  • 2020-2021: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $12,087,739.
  • 2022-2023: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $108,958.
  • 2023-2024: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $15,035,818.

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
$15,035,818SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$12,087,739COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-012023-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$9,278,201COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$1,699,656HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012017-03-31Home living and community accessd
$1,226,087HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-01-012016-06-30Staff support to adults with disabilities in home living, weekday programs etc.b
$184,064COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-142017-03-31Home Living and Skill Development, Community Access and Respited
$138,996COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-012020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$108,958SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$77,052COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182018-01-012020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$49,510HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-04-012016-06-30Home living and community accessd

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.