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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Independent Counselling Enterprises Inc.

Total sole-source dollars
$192,576,402
Sole-source contracts
52
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 $26,475,760.
  • 2016-2017: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $1,264,642, HUMAN SERVICES $21,614,678.
  • 2017-2018: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $9,300,750.
  • 2018-2019: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $33,630,341.
  • 2019-2020: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $34,465,480.
  • 2020-2021: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $33,540,583.
  • 2021-2022: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $31,663,691.
  • 2022-2023: SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES $620,477.

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
$19,734,529COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$19,586,775COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-01 → 2021-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$19,134,826COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$18,369,853COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-01 → 2022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$12,958,947HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-01 → 2017-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Supportsd
$8,633,594HUMAN SERVICES2015-2016— → —Home living supports, community access and respite—
$8,502,084HUMAN SERVICES2015-2016— → —Home living supports, community access and respite—
$8,434,430COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-01 → 2021-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$8,289,495COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$8,282,678COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$8,094,177COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-01 → 2022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$5,982,481COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$5,463,171HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-01 → 2017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$3,430,697COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$3,242,413HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-01 → 2015-12-31Overnight staffed residencesd
$3,085,925HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-01-01 → 2016-06-30Overnight staffed residencesd
$2,991,602COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,909,792COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,838,397COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-01 → 2021-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,757,843COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,680,982COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2020-20212020-04-01 → 2021-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,657,121COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-01 → 2022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,636,832COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$2,542,540COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2021-20222021-04-01 → 2022-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$1,791,594HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-01 → 2017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$1,263,747HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-01 → 2017-03-31Home living and community accessd
$1,010,080HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-01 → 2015-12-31Home living and community accessd
$999,346HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-01 → 2015-12-31Home living and skill development, community access and respited
$842,498HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-01-01 → 2016-06-30Staff support for adults with disabilities in home living etc.d
$819,998COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-03-29 → 2017-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Supportsd
$401,773SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-01 → 2023-03-31Living Arrangements and Housingd
$272,678COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-10-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$200,019COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-04-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$185,978COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$175,085COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-14 → 2017-03-31Home Living and Community Accessd
$160,909SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-01 → 2023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$134,777COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182018-03-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$119,864HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-07-01 → 2017-03-31Home living, employment and community access supportsd
$107,783COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-04-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$107,783COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2019-20202019-04-01 → 2020-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$100,429COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-13 → 2017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$84,565COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-01 → 2017-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$84,565COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2016-20172017-02-28 → 2017-03-31Home and Community Inclusion Community Supportsd
$79,910HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162016-01-01 → 2016-06-30Living (home) and community access supports.d
$79,909HUMAN SERVICES2015-20162015-07-01 → 2015-12-31Support Homes and Independent Living, Respited
$69,397COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182017-10-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$61,559COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$57,795SENIORS, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2022-20232023-01-01 → 2023-03-31Support to Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)d
$53,104COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$48,150COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2018-20192018-10-01 → 2019-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd
$17,355HUMAN SERVICES2016-20172016-04-01 → 2016-06-30Home and Inclusion Community Supportsb
$4,566COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES2017-20182018-01-01 → 2018-03-31Home and Inclusion Community Supportsd

Recurring-justification findings

“Home living supports, community access and respite”

Contracts citing this language
27
Distinct ministries
2
Fiscal-year span
FY 2015-2016 – 2016-2017

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.