Public sector · Pre-qualified in BC
For municipal, provincial, and federal teams deciding between another subscription and a system of their own. We are pre-qualified with the Office of the Auditor General of BC and on the Province of BC Multi-Use List. Fixed price, milestone billed, built to WCAG 2.1 AA, hosted in Canada. On final payment you own 100% of the source, the data, and the IP.
Standing with BC public bodies
Three public procurement records, each with a reference number you can check without asking us for anything.
OAG-RFQ-26-068
Runs to 2030-07-07
Digital Services. Qualified in three categories: Public Cloud Services, Application and System Design, and AI Readiness and Adoption.
ON-003317-03
Software Development and Testing. The provincial standing list ministries draw from when they scope a build.
BC Digital Marketplace
Listed on the province’s marketplace for digital opportunities, so BC public bodies can find and invite us directly.
Delivery in progress
We hold an active contract with a Canadian provincial government ministry, client name withheld under contract confidentiality.
To be exact about what the first three are: a pre-qualification is permission to be invited, not a contract award and not a guarantee of work. It means the province has already reviewed us against its criteria and cleared us to bid. What it gives a ministry is permission to invite us to a limited competition, not a shortcut past one.
For most public bodies the first step is not a build at all. It is a fixed-price application condition assessment of one system: how much working life is left in it, and what it would take to add more. It is read-only, nothing about how the system runs changes while it happens, and it ends in a written report you can forward upward without editing it.
Renting versus owning
Your organization does not rent its vehicles fleet-wide, its buildings, or its road salt, because ownership is cheaper across the life of the asset. Software was the exception for one reason: a custom build used to cost roughly ten times what it costs now. That stopped being true.
A generalized product that fits no department in particular is now both worse and more expensive than a system commissioned to match the actual process. The gap shows up in year four and never closes.
Figures are a worked example, not a quote. Most builds land between $15,000 and $60,000 CAD; larger systems are quoted on scope.
What ownership means on paper
On final payment your public body owns 100% of the source code, the data, and the intellectual property. There is no per-seat licence to true up, no annual renewal to negotiate under pressure, and no vendor that can be acquired, sunset, or repriced out from under a program residents depend on.
If you want to move the system to an internal team or to another developer, you can, and we will help with the transfer rather than slow it down. That is the whole point of the arrangement.
Support after handover is optional, with no retainer and no hourly rate. Take the code and owe nothing, or keep us on: each piece of work is quoted in writing before it starts and triaged by severity. A critical fault is handled immediately, a cosmetic one waits for the next available week.
Accessibility and language
WCAG 2.1 AA is our build standard. Semantic structure, keyboard operation, colour contrast, visible focus states, and screen-reader support are in the work from the first screen, not retrofitted before launch. To be precise about the wording: it is a standard we build to, not a certification we hold, and we are glad to have the delivered product audited by a third party at your direction.
Full English and French parity can be built where a program requires it. We state it as a capability we can deliver rather than as a bilingual product already shipped, because that is the honest version. The decision is architectural, not a translation bolted on at the end, so it is scoped at the start; built that way, every screen, label, notification, and generated document runs in both official languages.
We hold this site to the same bar. Read the accessibility statement.
Residency
BlueStone AI Inc. is a Canadian federal corporation, registered extraprovincially in British Columbia, and based in Metro Vancouver (Port Coquitlam). The work is done here, in your time zone, and reachable during your business hours.
For public bodies we deploy in Canadian regions by default, so operational and citizen data stays in the country. Residency and hosting are confirmed in writing per engagement rather than assumed.
The vendor file
Everything below is a registry number or a bound policy. Look any of it up, or ask and we will send the certificate.
Bound and in force.
Bound and in force.
Bound and in force.
Active. Clearance letter on request.
BlueStone AI Inc. Searchable on the Corporations Canada registry.
Registered to carry on business in British Columbia.
Canada Revenue Agency.
Canadian-owned small business.
Certificates of insurance and a WorkSafeBC clearance letter are issued on request, usually the same day.
Security posture
The controls below are how every build operates today. The block underneath is the list of things we are not, which is the part most vendors leave for you to discover during clarifications.
Standard on every build, not a paid tier.
Least privilege by role, so staff see only what the job requires.
Who did what, and when. An activity trail an external reviewer can walk through.
A documented, reviewable policy applied to every engagement rather than improvised per project.
If a solicitation requires one of those certifications, you will hear it in our first reply, not at clarification stage.
How an engagement runs
Five steps, each one something a committee can point at in a record of decision.
We map the requirement against how the program actually runs today: the current systems, the gap a commercial product would leave, and the outcome the evaluation committee has to be able to defend.
Where the process allows it, we build a clickable prototype of the solution during evaluation. Evaluators and end users click the real thing instead of reading a promise in a slide deck.
One agreed scope, one agreed number, invoiced at milestones. Every milestone is a working deliverable you can open, not a status report.
We write the runbook and train your staff, so the operating knowledge lives inside your organization rather than inside our heads.
Source code, data, and infrastructure transferred on final payment. Ongoing support is optional and never a condition of the system continuing to run.
Relevant work
Described without client names. Written permission is not on file for the work we have delivered, and we would rather be vague about who than loose with confidentiality.
Internal tool, not client work
An internal tool we built and run for ourselves, not a client engagement: it ingests public RFPs, scores them against capability, drafts response sections from a library, and tracks win rate over time. An example of the registry and scoring systems we build. Not a delivered client engagement.
Compliance and audit
Policy library, attestations, evidence collection, and an append-only activity log, so twelve months of activity can be walked through on one screen during an external review.
Education and training
A custom learning platform for a private education provider: course delivery, lessons, assessments, and credential issuance. Delivered in English; full English/French parity is a capability we can build where a program requires it, not a bilingual product already shipped.
Procurement questions
Answered the way we would answer them in writing, because you can check every one of them.
Yes, on two provincial pre-qualifications, plus a supplier registration on the BC Digital Marketplace. BlueStone AI Inc. is a pre-qualified supplier to the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia under RFQ OAG-RFQ-26-068 (Digital Services) in three categories: Public Cloud Services, Application and System Design, and AI Readiness and Adoption, running to 2030-07-07. We are also pre-qualified on the Province of BC Multi-Use List, Service Area 3, Software Development and Testing (ON-003317-03), and registered on the BC Digital Marketplace. To be exact: a pre-qualification is permission to be invited, not a contract award.
We hold an active contract with a Canadian provincial government ministry, client name withheld under contract confidentiality. We can speak to scope and approach in a procurement conversation, but we will not name the client on a website, which is the same discretion your file would get.
Your public body does. On final payment you own 100% of the source code, the data, and the intellectual property. No per-seat licence, no renewal, no clause that lets us reprice you later. You can host it yourself or hand it to another developer at any time.
CyberSecure Canada certification is in progress. The full list of what we hold and what we do not is on our Security page. Risk is covered in the contract: $2,000,000 in cyber liability and $2,000,000 in professional liability are in force, for public bodies we deploy in Canadian regions by default, confirmed in writing per engagement, and the system runs in your own accounts under your own access controls. WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard we build to. If a solicitation requires one of those certifications, we will tell you in the first reply.
We build to WCAG 2.1 AA from the first screen: semantic structure, keyboard operation, colour contrast, visible focus states, and screen-reader support. Accessibility is a build standard we apply, not a certification we hold, and we are happy to have the delivered product audited by a third party at your direction.
Yes, as a capability rather than a bilingual product already shipped. Full English/French parity can be built where a program requires it. Because it is an architectural decision made at the start rather than a translation layer added at the end, it has to be scoped in the statement of work, and then screens, labels, notifications, and generated documents are built to run in both official languages.
It can be. BlueStone AI Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, registered extraprovincially in British Columbia, and based in Metro Vancouver (Port Coquitlam). For public bodies we deploy in Canadian regions by default, so operational and citizen data stays in the country. Hosting and residency are confirmed in writing per engagement.
Commercial general liability of $5,000,000, professional liability (errors and omissions) of $2,000,000, and cyber liability of $2,000,000, all bound and in force. WorkSafeBC account 201966367 is active. Federal corporation 1730441-2 (CBCA), BC extraprovincial registration A0142791, business number 771523834 RC0001. Certificates of insurance and a WorkSafeBC clearance letter are issued on request, usually the same day.
Public-sector work is fixed-price and milestone-billed against a scope agreed up front, so the budget line is known before the first commit. Support after handover is optional and there is no retainer and no hourly rate. You can take the code and owe nothing, or keep us on: each piece of work is quoted in writing as its own fixed price before it starts and triaged by severity, so a critical issue is handled immediately and a cosmetic one waits for the next available week.
Every engagement has a named delivery lead on the file from day one, and everyone added to it is named to you and approved by you before they start, with their cost already inside the quoted price. If a scope is genuinely beyond what we should take on, we say that during evaluation rather than after signature.
We build it, we document it, and we train your people on it. The day we walk away, nothing breaks and nobody is locked out. You paid for it. You own it.
Written reply · No obligation
Send the requirement in writing. You will get a straight answer on whether a custom build fits, what a prototype during evaluation would look like, and where we are the wrong supplier — in a form you can forward to the rest of the evaluation team.
Certificates of insurance, a WorkSafeBC clearance letter, and our pre-qualification references are available on request, usually the same day.