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Why it is here

Indicator “Contract value inflated by amendments”: 16 contracts inflated by amendments ×2 and more (+105,240,521 $) in 8 departments: Canada Border Services Agency / Correctional Service of Canada / Impact Assessment Agency of Canada / National Defence / Public Services and Procurement Canada / Shared Services Canada / Statistics Canada / Transport Canada.

The contract value grew through amendments after signing. Indicators computed from public data sets: contracts, payments, registers, trade and sanctions lists. An indicator is a reason to check, not a decision of a public authority.

Details

Company / subject

OPEN TEXT

Buyer

8 departments

Indicator

Contract value inflated by amendments

Amount

CAD 105,240,521

Records behind the indicator

16

Found

3 October 2026

Code

K-11195

What stands behind it10

1. Contract

   Information technology and telecommunications consultants

   Date 22 April 2026 · Amount CAD 409,628 · Buyer NA · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2026-2027-Q1-02352 · original value 1 · procedure: TN · bids: 1

2. Contract

   Translation Services

   Date 15 April 2025 · Amount CAD 200,000 · Buyer NA · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2025-2026-Q4-00247 · original value 100,000 · procedure: OB · bids: 5

3. Contract

   License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software

   Date 24 September 2024 · Amount CAD 588,181 · Buyer NA · Supplier Open Text Corporation · Ref C-2025-2026-Q2-00101 · original value 284,372 · procedure: TN

4. Contract

   License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software

   Date 1 April 2021 · Amount CAD 205,346 · Buyer Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2022-2023-Q4-00001 · original value 68,108 · procedure: TN

5. Contract

   Translation Services

   Date 26 October 2020 · Amount CAD 452,000 · Buyer NA · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2023-2024-Q3-00028 · original value 113,000 · procedure: OB · bids: 5

6. Contract

   License/Maintenance fees for client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

   Date 18 June 2020 · Amount CAD 272,636 · Buyer NA · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2021-2022-Q2-00021 · original value 127,140 · procedure: TN · bids: 1

7. Contract

   License/Maintenance fees for client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

   Date 1 April 2019 · Amount CAD 110,979,299 · Buyer NA · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2026-2027-Q1-02348 · original value 49,600,215 · procedure: TN · bids: 1

8. Contract

   Translation services

   Date 18 December 2018 · Amount CAD 197,750 · Buyer Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | Agence d'évaluation d'impact du Canada · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2019-2020-Q2-00001 · original value 84,750 · procedure: TC

9. Contract

   Non-professional personal service

   Date 16 October 2018 · Amount CAD 178,271 · Buyer Canada Border Services Agency | Agence des services frontaliers du Canada · Supplier Open Text Inc. · Ref c-2019-2020-Q2-00246 · original value 31,304 · procedure: TN

10. Contract

    License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software

    Date 30 April 2018 · Amount CAD 46,482,111 · Buyer Public Services and Procurement Canada | Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada · Supplier OPEN TEXT CORPORATION · Ref C-2018-2019-Q1-01541 · original value 6,871,194 · procedure: TN

10 of 16 records shown.

Other records of this company13

1. 013 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
2. 023 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
3. 033 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
4. 043 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
5. 053 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
6. 063 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
7. 073 October 2026Findings · Competition bypassed by amendments
8. 083 October 2026Findings · Contract splitting under the threshold
9. 093 October 2026Findings · Contract splitting under the threshold
10. 103 October 2026Findings · Supplier lives on one buyer without competition