Microsoft

$53,689,740

$98.50 per person in the province. 827 years of work at the median full-time wage.

Supplier

Microsoft

Public body

NL Health Services

Date

May 19, 2023

Method

Sole source

Clause cited

6(a)(v) Only one source reasonably available

Contract number

2023-3805 / PO 018835

Term

5 Years

Reported in

the report for 2024-04-16 to 2024-04-30

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

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