Microsoft Canada Inc.

$160,830.24

$0.30 per person in the province. 2.5 years of work at the median full-time wage.

Supplier

Microsoft Canada Inc.

Public body

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Date

Jan. 1, 2022

Method

Sole source

Clause cited

6(a)(v) Only Available Source

Contract number

221022756

Term

3 years

Reported in

the report for 2021-12-16 to 2021-12-31

Record type

Provincial contract award

Patterns

• Awarded without competition

  Contracts given to one supplier without an open call for bids. Method

• Same supplier, sole-sourced again and again

  A public body gave the same supplier three or more sole-source awards. Method

• Dates that cannot be right

  Award dates printed years before or after the report they appear in. Method

A flag is a question, not a finding. It is not evidence that anything wrong happened.