“Sole Source Firetack Crew”
- Contracts citing this language
- 40
- Distinct ministries
- 2
- Fiscal-year span
- FY 2022-2023 – 2023-2024
Vendor — sole-source deep dive
Tallcree Wildland Limited Partnership
- Total sole-source dollars
- $42,276,503
- Sole-source contracts
- 19
- Distinct ministries
- 4
Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry
Per-year, per-ministry breakdown of this vendor's sole-source contract dollars.
- 2017-2018: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $17,540,000.
- 2018-2019: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $83,979.
- 2019-2020: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $83,640.
- 2020-2021: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY $12,115,284.
- 2021-2022: Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development $50,000.
- 2022-2023: FORESTRY, PARKS AND TOURISM $103,600.
- 2023-2024: Forestry and Parks $12,300,000.
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 —.
| Amount | Ministry | FY | Period | Work description | NSC code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,000,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | — → — | Sole Source Firetack Crew | — |
| $3,000,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | — → — | Sole Source Firetack Crew | — |
| $3,000,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | — → — | Sole Source Firetack Crew | — |
| $2,500,000 | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY | 2017-2018 | 2017-04-01 → 2020-03-31 | Zero Day Crews | h |
| $1,500,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | 2023-04-01 → 2026-03-31 | Firetack Base and Secondary Crew | g |
| $1,000,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | 2023-04-01 → 2026-03-31 | Firetack Base and Secondary Crew | g |
| $800,000 | Forestry and Parks | 2023-2024 | 2023-04-01 → 2026-03-31 | Firetack Base and Secondary Crew | g |
| $115,284 | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY | 2020-2021 | 2020-11-13 → 2021-03-16 | ISC FireSmart | g |
| $103,600 | FORESTRY, PARKS AND TOURISM | 2022-2023 | 2022-10-07 → 2023-03-31 | FireSmart Project - South Tallcree | g |
| $83,979 | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY | 2018-2019 | 2018-12-05 → 2019-03-31 | Firesmart mulching | g |
| $83,640 | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY | 2019-2020 | 2019-11-15 → 2020-02-28 | Firesmart - South Tall Cree | g |
| $50,000 | Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development | 2021-2022 | 2022-02-11 → 2022-03-31 | ISC Firesmart | g |
| $40,000 | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY | 2017-2018 | 2018-02-01 → 2018-03-29 | Firesmart Mulching | g |
Recurring-justification findings
Vendor-scope-drift findings
In ministry AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
- Earliest fiscal year
- FY 2017-2018
- Latest fiscal year
- FY 2020-2021
- Jaccard distance
- 0.80
- Earliest period — top tokens
- crews, base, secondary, day, firesmart
- Latest period — top tokens
- base, crew, firetack, firesmart, isc
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.