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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Wood Buffalo Environmental Association

Total sole-source dollars
$126,451,195
Sole-source contracts
24
Distinct ministries
2

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

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

  • 2016-2017: ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS $18,898,827.
  • 2017-2018: ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS $514,557.
  • 2018-2019: ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS $9,268,819.
  • 2019-2020: ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS $43,308,631.
  • 2021-2022: ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS $370,737.
  • 2023-2024: Environment and Protected Areas $53,590,303.
  • 2024-2025: Environment and Protected Areas $499,321.

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
$41,367,605Environment and Protected Areas2023-20242023-07-012027-03-31Atmospheric Pollutant Active Monitoring Network - Athabasca Oil Sandsb
$29,264,103ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-07-012023-03-31Atmosphere Pollutant Active Monitoring Network (Athabasca Oil Sands)b
$12,222,698Environment and Protected Areas2023-20242023-07-012027-03-31Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Monitoring - Athabasca Oil Sandsb
$8,430,741ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2018-20192018-07-012021-03-31Air Quality Monitoring in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$6,292,518ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172016-10-032017-03-31Air Quality Monitoring in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$6,292,518ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172016-10-032017-03-31Air Quality Monitoring in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$6,004,561ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-07-012023-03-31Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Monitoring (Athabasca Oil Sands)b
$3,203,037ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-04-012021-03-31Air Quality Monitoring in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$3,110,554ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172017-03-312017-06-30Air Quality Monitoring in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$3,110,554ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172017-03-312017-06-30Air Quality Monitoring in Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$1,969,169ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-10-282023-03-31Community Led Berry Contamination Studyb
$1,598,479ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-04-012023-03-31Oil Sands Monitoring – Terrestrial Biological Monitoring Programb
$672,697ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-07-012023-03-31Meteorological Monitoring under Oil Sands Monitoring Programb
$478,078ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2018-20192018-04-012019-03-31Community Led Traditional Knowledge Project Support in Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$452,767ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2017-20182017-06-092018-03-31Community-Led TK Project Support in the Athabasca Oil Sands Regionb
$409,739ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-07-012023-03-31Wetland Ecosystem Monitoringb
$370,737ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2021-20222021-04-012024-03-31AEP Air Monitoring Station Operationsb
$370,737Environment and Protected Areas2024-20252024-04-012027-03-31Airshed Station Operationsb
$360,000ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2018-20192018-04-012021-03-31Airshed Station Operationsb
$186,846ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2019-20202019-07-012023-03-31Strengthen Community Reporting of Odours-Ambient Air Odour Studyb
$128,584Environment and Protected Areas2024-20252024-11-012027-03-31Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Monitoring (Athabasca Oil Sands)b
$61,790ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2017-20182017-09-302018-03-31Monitoring Airshed Stationsb
$61,789ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172017-03-312017-09-30Monitoring Airshed Stationsb
$30,894ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS2016-20172016-12-312017-03-31Monitoring Airshed Stationsb

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.