“Family and Caregiver Support”
- Contracts citing this language
- 262
- Distinct ministries
- 2
- Fiscal-year span
- FY 2016-2017 – 2020-2021
Vendor — sole-source deep dive
Metis Child And Family Services Society
- Total sole-source dollars
- $39,458,000
- Sole-source contracts
- 36
- 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 $6,144,366.
- 2016-2017: HUMAN SERVICES $8,841,496.
- 2018-2019: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $5,168,082.
- 2019-2020: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $7,491,988.
- 2020-2021: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $2,025,000.
- 2021-2022: CHILDREN'S SERVICES $9,595,482.
- 2022-2023: Children and Family Services $90,806.
- 2023-2024: Children and Family Services $100,780.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $6,297,172 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2019-2020 | 2019-04-01 → 2021-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $6,097,700 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2016-2017 | — → — | Family and Caregiver Support | — |
| $2,025,000 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2020-2021 | 2020-04-01 → 2023-03-31 | Foster and Kinship Care and Supports | d |
| $1,732,636 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-07-01 → 2015-12-31 | Agency foster care | b |
| $1,732,636 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-06-30 | Agency foster care | b |
| $1,388,296 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2016-2017 | 2016-07-01 → 2018-03-31 | Child Intervention Early Childhood Development and Early Intervention; Family and Caregiver Support | d |
| $1,050,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2016-2017 | 2016-07-01 → 2018-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports & Family and Caregiver Support | d |
| $866,318 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-04-01 → 2015-06-30 | Agency foster care | b |
| $675,000 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2019-2020 | 2019-04-01 → 2020-03-31 | Family and Caregiver Support | d |
| $396,656 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-07-01 → 2015-12-31 | Early intervention/Kinship care | b |
| $396,656 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-06-30 | Early intervention/Kinship care | b |
| $338,256 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2019-2020 | 2019-04-01 → 2021-03-31 | Supports & Services for Youth | d |
| $300,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-07-01 → 2015-12-31 | Metis and community support services | b |
| $300,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-06-30 | Metis and community support services | b |
| $198,328 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-04-01 → 2015-06-30 | Early intervention/Kinship care | b |
| $181,560 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2019-2020 | 2019-04-01 → 2021-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $155,500 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2016-2017 | 2016-07-01 → 2018-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $150,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2016-2017 | 2016-04-01 → 2016-06-30 | Foster care, youth and family support | b |
| $150,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-04-01 → 2015-06-30 | Metis and community support services | b |
| $100,780 | Children and Family Services | 2023-2024 | 2024-03-22 → 2025-03-31 | Agency Foster Care | d |
| $90,806 | Children and Family Services | 2022-2023 | 2023-03-25 → 2024-03-31 | Foster and Kinship Care Supports | d |
| $89,000 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-04-01 → 2019-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $81,628 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-04-01 → 2019-03-31 | Supports and Services for Youth | d |
| $60,000 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-06-30 | Agency foster care | b |
| $16,975 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-12-01 → 2019-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $14,839 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-12-01 → 2019-03-31 | Supports and Services for Youth | d |
| $11,136 | HUMAN SERVICES | 2015-2016 | 2015-07-01 → 2015-12-31 | Agency foster care | b |
| $10,000 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2019-01-31 → 2019-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $1,780 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-12-15 → 2019-03-31 | Community-Based Living and Supports | d |
| $1,149 | CHILDREN'S SERVICES | 2018-2019 | 2018-12-01 → 2019-03-31 | Supports and Services for Youth | d |
Recurring-justification findings
Vendor-scope-drift findings
In ministry CHILDREN'S SERVICES
- Earliest fiscal year
- FY 2018-2019
- Latest fiscal year
- FY 2021-2022
- Jaccard distance
- 0.82
- Earliest period — top tokens
- supports, based, community, living, services
- Latest period — top tokens
- supports, care, foster, kinship, services
What we cannot tell you yet
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Amendment linkage
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Bid history
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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.