D-0029 · Canada Border Services Agency publishes 13 contract amendment rows that depart from the schema
28 September 2026 · Canada Border Services Agency
Obligation. The dataset Proactive Publication of Contracts is published with a schema. For the field amendment_value the schema reads: “it is recommended that the contract amendment value be the value of the contract amendment”. 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 13 amendment rows of Canada Border Services Agency that depart from the schema. In 13 rows amendment_value holds the running total of all amendments of the contract, not the amount the amendment added.
C-2024-2025-Q1-00026, Makwa Resourcing Inc.: amendment_value reads $395,500.00, the amendment added $128,820.00.
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 13 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 13 rows by reference_number, each with every row of the same contract in order.
- Workings of the amendment rows of the register: dzyuban.com/workshop/register-amendments/
- The notice to the department of 28 September 2026, delivered by email.
Notice. Not escalated. Notified 28 September 2026 by email.