Zoom Video Communications

$112,911.79

$0.21 per person in the province. 90 weeks of work at the median full-time wage.

Supplier

Zoom Video Communications

Public body

NL Centre for Health Information

Date

Sept. 15, 2020

Method

Sole source

Clause cited

6(a)(v) only available source

Contract number

2020-0869/PO#012001

Term

One time purchase

Reported in

the report for 2021-02-16 to 2021-02-28

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

• Published long after the award

  Awards that appear in a report more than 90 days after the award date. Method

• Descriptions that say almost nothing

  Awards described in one or two generic words. Method

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