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Acquisitions

Program code
AZA00 (GSC)
Core responsibility
High quality, central programs and services that ensure sound stewardship on behalf of Canadians and meet the program needs of federal institutions.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Acquisitions 2010-11: $144MAcquisitions 2011-12: $158MAcquisitions 2012-13: $159MAcquisitions 2013-14: $153MAcquisitions 2014-15: $145MAcquisitions 2015-16: $152MAcquisitions 2016-17: $138MAcquisitions 2017-18: $176MAcquisitions
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
AcquisitionsThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.22B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2017-18Spending $176M, against $138M in 2016-17 (+28%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $153M2013-142014-15: $145M2014-152015-16: $152M2015-162016-17: $138M2016-172017-18: $176M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$153M
2014-15—$145M
2015-16—$152M
2016-17—$138M
2017-18—$176M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,9702013-14: 1,7962013-142014-15: 1,6262014-15: 1,6942014-152015-16: 1,7582015-16: 1,7122015-162016-17: 1,4912016-17: 1,6172016-172017-18: 1,5512017-18: 1,6722017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-141,9701,796
2014-151,6261,694
2015-161,7581,712
2016-171,4911,617
2017-181,5511,672

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.