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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Supported Lifestyles Ltd.

Total sole-source dollars
$133,742,425
Sole-source contracts
16
Distinct ministries
4

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

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

  • 2015-2016: HUMAN SERVICES $17,669,081.
  • 2016-2017: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $333,962, HUMAN SERVICES $20,389,130.
  • 2017-2018: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $82,549,114.
  • 2018-2019: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $3,143,270.
  • 2019-2020: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $5,093,572.
  • 2022-2023: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $780,509.
  • 2025-2026: Assisted Living and Social Services $3,783,788.

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
$77,350,133COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-012020-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$18,845,038HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$11,325,723HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-012015-12-31Overnight staffed residencesb
$5,662,862HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-04-012015-12-31Overnight staffed residencesb
$5,198,981COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-10-012020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$5,093,572COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202020-01-012020-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$3,783,788Assisted Living and Social Services2025-20262025-12-012026-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Supportsd
$2,054,477COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-012020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$1,088,793COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-012020-03-31Behavioural or Developmental Supportsd
$952,694HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012018-03-31Behavioral or Developmental Supportsb
$780,509SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-012023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$591,398HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-04-012016-06-30Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$333,962COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-132017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$272,198HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-012015-12-31Behavorial supports servicesb
$272,198HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-01-012016-06-30Behavioural support servicesb
$136,099HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-04-012015-12-31Behavioural support servicesb

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.