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Program directory · Shared Services Canada

Mid-Range

Program code
BWD06 (SHARE)
Core responsibility
Data Centres
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2019-20 · Appeared and later dropped

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 2018-19. 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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-22Mid-Range 2018-19: $165MMid-Range 2019-20: $167MMid-Range 2020-21: $169MMid-Range 2021-22: $150MMid-Range
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
Mid-RangeThis program2018-19 – 2021-22$332M

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
2019-20Employees (FTEs) 823, against 655 in 2018-19 (+26%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

% of time the mission-critical infrastructure is available
Expected result: Available Mid-Range services
99.5%2018-19✓ met99.5%2019-20– no result

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 99.5%201999.5%Met
2019-20≥ 99.5%2020—
Since 2019, Mid-Range services is broken down into three (3) service lines; Enterprise Operations, Windows Management and Linux/Unix. Data available after the structural re-organization of Data Centre Services Branch does not allow Shared Services Canada to calculate the results using the current methodology.
No result reported

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $133M2018-19: $165M2018-192019-20: $161M2019-20: $167M2019-202020-21: $169M2020-212021-22: $150M2021-22
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
2018-19$133M$165M
2019-20$161M$167M
2020-21$169M*—
2021-22$150M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 8782018-19: 6552018-192019-20: 7032019-20: 8232019-202020-21: 6912020-212021-22: 6912021-22
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
2018-19878655
2019-20703823
2020-21691*—
2021-22691*—

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

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