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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Vecova Centre For Disability Services

Total sole-source dollars
$122,661,361
Sole-source contracts
11
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 $4,669,933.
  • 2021-2022: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $21,799,900.
  • 2022-2023: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $22,127,721, SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $483,824.
  • 2023-2024: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $73,579,984.

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
$71,045,467SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-2024Cross Disability Support Services
$22,084,638COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$21,540,840COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-012022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$4,606,765HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-04-012015-12-31Overnight staffed residencesb
$1,591,127SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-09-012026-03-31Home and Community Access, and Employment Supportsd
$758,010SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Supports to Persons with Developmental Disabilitiesd
$483,824SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$259,060COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222022-02-072022-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$185,379SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Supports to Persons with Developmental Disabilitiesd
$63,168HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-04-012015-12-31Behavioural support servicesb
$43,083COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd

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.