D-0019 · Public Safety Canada publishes 84 contract amendment rows that depart from the schema
28 September 2026 · Public Safety Canada
Obligation. The dataset Proactive Publication of Contracts is published with a schema. For the field contract_date it reads: “It is recommended that the contract date for an amended contract or the exercising of an option be the date that the contract is awarded (or the hard commitment date)”. The Directive on the Management of Procurement, Appendix C, section C.2.2, requires the published data to be “materially accurate and complete”.
Conduct. The dataset, as downloaded on 2 September 2026, carries 84 amendment rows of Public Safety Canada that depart from the schema. In 84 rows contract_date holds the date of the amendment, later than the award date carried by the original contract row of the same contract.
C-2020-2021-Q1-00002, THE AIM GROUP: contract_date reads 2020-06-18, the contract was awarded on 2020-01-16.
Why it scores where it does. Reach 3 — national, and every person who uses the dataset. Harm 1 — money and time, no personal injury. Absence of a remedy 3 — no route exists for a member of the public to compel a publisher to correct an open dataset. Persistence 2 — the same departure in 84 rows of the same body. Total 9, High, 400 CAD.
Evidence.
- The public CSV of the dataset Proactive Publication of Contracts (d8f85d91-7dec-4fd1-8055-483b77225d8b), downloaded on 2 September 2026: 1,313,540 rows, 204,495 of them amendments.
- The 84 rows by reference_number, each with every row of the same contract in order.
- The notice to the department of 28 September 2026, delivered by email.
Notice. Not escalated. Notified 28 September 2026 by email.