Why people look at this
The reported value grew. Do amendments or planned options explain the change, and how were they authorized? Growth alone does not establish spending or a procurement violation.
How it is worked out
- Federal contracts over $10,000: final contract value compared with the original value the department reported.
- Flagged when the final value is at least twice the original and the increase is at least $25,000.
- Uses the latest version of each contract, so amendments are counted once.
Data used
What it cannot tell you
Selection is by supplier NL postal code, not work or benefit location. Whole reported values are commitments, not payments or spending in NL. Planned option years are sometimes reported as amendments. The provincial reports do not publish change orders at all, so this flag covers federal contracts only.
The Open Contracting Partnership's guide to red flags puts it this way: a red flag is not evidence that anything wrong happened. It points at something that may be worth a closer look.
This page and the calculation are generated from one definition, so they cannot drift apart. See the results.