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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Independent Counselling Enterprises Inc

Total sole-source dollars
$148,340,634
Sole-source contracts
17
Distinct ministries
3

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

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

  • 2016-2017: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $2,865.
  • 2017-2018: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $27,105,657.
  • 2022-2023: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $30,552,907.
  • 2023-2024: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $31,337,711.
  • 2024-2025: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $30,043,396.
  • 2025-2026: Assisted Living and Social Services $29,298,098.

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
$20,972,243SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012024-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$20,537,635SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2024-20252024-04-012025-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$20,126,130Assisted Living and Social Services2025-20262025-04-012026-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$18,889,942COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-012018-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$17,891,874COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$7,858,716COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-012018-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$7,842,746SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-2024Cross Disability Support Services
$7,556,644COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$6,957,904SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2024-20252024-04-012025-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$6,438,759Assisted Living and Social Services2025-20262025-04-012026-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$2,737,827COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$2,733,209Assisted Living and Social Services2025-20262025-04-012026-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$2,547,857SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2024-20252024-04-012025-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$2,522,722SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012024-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$2,366,563COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$357,000COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-10-152018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,865COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-01-012017-03-31Home Living, Employment and Community Access Supportsd

Recurring-justification findings

Cross Disability Support Services

Contracts citing this language
18
Distinct ministries
2
Fiscal-year span
FY 2020-2021 – 2023-2024

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.