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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Community Living Alternative Services

Total sole-source dollars
$288,125,484
Sole-source contracts
14
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 $4,671.
  • 2016-2017: HUMAN SERVICES $18,283,694.
  • 2017-2018: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $25,742,752.
  • 2019-2020: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $28,963,960.
  • 2020-2021: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $29,141,919.
  • 2021-2022: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $31,057,203.
  • 2022-2023: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $33,337,322.
  • 2023-2024: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $38,262,802.
  • 2024-2025: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $40,863,809.
  • 2025-2026: Assisted Living and Social Services $42,467,353.

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
$42,467,353Assisted Living and Social Services2025-20262025-04-012026-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$40,863,809SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2024-20252024-04-012025-03-31Group Living Arrangementsd
$37,547,700SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012024-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Supportsd
$33,337,322COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232022-04-012023-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$31,057,203COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-012022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$29,141,919COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-012021-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$28,963,960COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-012020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$25,218,238COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-012018-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$18,250,997HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$524,514COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-10-012018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$472,890SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012024-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$242,212SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2023-20242023-04-012026-03-31Supports to Persons with Developmental Disabilitiesd
$32,697HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-012018-03-31Behavioral or Developmental Supportsb
$4,671HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-04-012015-12-31Clincial consultative supportsb

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.