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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

IBM CANADA LIMITED/IBM CANADA LIMITEE

Total sole-source dollars
$143,715,628
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.

  • 2016-2017: SERVICE ALBERTA $13,206,567.
  • 2018-2019: SERVICE ALBERTA $34,143,840.
  • 2020-2021: SERVICE ALBERTA $40,089,137.
  • 2024-2025: Technology and Innovation $56,265,542.
  • 2025-2026: Technology and Innovation $10,542.

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
$55,393,540Technology and Innovation2024-20252024-06-302030-03-31Enterprise License Agreement (2024-2030) - Software and Services Special Optiong
$40,089,137SERVICE ALBERTA2020-20212020-06-012025-03-31Extension of Mainframe Application Hosting Servicesg
$34,143,840SERVICE ALBERTA2018-20192019-01-012020-12-31GoA IMAGIS Servicesg
$13,206,567SERVICE ALBERTA2016-20172017-03-312022-03-31Extension of Mainframe Application Hosting Services past January 2019g
$872,002Technology and Innovation2024-20252025-03-312026-03-30IBM EntireX License Renewalg
$10,542Technology and Innovation2025-20262025-08-012025-08-29Support of IMAGIS hosted on the IBM Cloudz

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.