October 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Kyle Wyndham-West, PhD Student (McMaster University)
Oracle recorded no communications.
September 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Kyle Wyndham-West, PhD Student (McMaster University)
In the month of September Oracle recorded 1 communication report with the subject matter with Government Procurement.
Oracle reportedly had a difficult fiscal quarter and is seeing a slow adoption of their new Cloud services. However, Loblaws has signed a contract with the cloud operator to modernize its data collection and protection. Another point of growth to mention is a furthering of their partnership with Microsoft. This would allow for a deployment of Oracle cloud services within Microsofts Azure infratsructure.
| Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2023-09-26 | Shannon Archibald, ADM | Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault, Edelman |
August 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Kyle Wyndham-West, PhD Student (McMaster University)
In August Oracle submitted two communications with the Registry of Lobbyists on the topics of “Government Procurement”.
During August Oracle introduced more features to their cloud services which would allow enterprises to run applications on proprietary optimized infrastructure within individual data centers that would enforce data security and help to meet low-latency requirements. This new service was developed to provide internal cloud infrastructure for sensitive data that is unable to leave the premises. It would combine original on premise IT services with Oracle Cloud seamlessly, offering the first service of its kind. Oracle Cloud infrastructure is the fastest growing cloud service in the technology sector, so it comes as no surprise that they could have had lobbyists attempting to sell the service.
| Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2023-08-17 | Robert Ianiro, ADM | Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault, Edelman |
| 2023-08-15 | Kristina Casey, Chief Information Officer | Transport Canada (TC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault, Edelman |
June 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Brad McNeil, PhD Candidate (McMaster University)
In June 2023, Oracle registered only one communication report on the topic of “government procurement.” Oracle continues to seek government contracts related to innovating public service delivery. As noted in this blog post, securing government contracts continues to be a key strategy for Oracle in the United States in Canada. Oracle signed five government contracts valued over $10,000 in June 2023. The contracts are listed below.
Oracle June Communication Reports
| Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2023-06-15 | Robert Ianiro, ADM Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |
Oracle Contracts Signed Valued over $10,000
| Date Signed | Value | Government Departments | Work Description |
| June 5, 2023 | $212,429.37 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police | License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software |
| June 9, 2023 | $293,969.50 | National Defence | License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software |
| June 12, 2023 | $111,759.18 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police | License/Maintenance fees for application software (including COTS) and application development and delivery software |
| June 14, 2023 | $66,698.93 | Public Services and Procurement Canada | License/Maintenance fees for client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) |
| June 29, 2023 | $1,698,624.69 | Public Services and Procurement Canada | Information technology and telecommunications consultants |
April 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Brad McNeil, PhD Candidate (McMaster University)
Oracle did not register any lobbying communications for the month of March, 2023. On April 18, 2023, Oracle Canada lobbied Executive Vice President, Scott Jones of Shared Services Canada on the topic of “government procurement.” On the registry of lobbyist website government procurement is the only subject matter that Oracle Canada lists as a topic they lobby about. As noted in a previous blog post, Oracle describes its activities related to lobbying on government procurement as follows: “Oracle seeks to identify and secure federal procurement opportunities as it relates to innovating public service delivery.” As noted in this blog post, securing government contracts continues to be a key strategy for Oracle in the United States in Canada.
On March 24, 2023, Oracle signed a contract valued at $85,514.34 with Infrastructure Canada for work related to licence/maintenance fees for “App.Software”. This marks Oracle’s 37th government contract signed worth more than $10,000 in the year 2023. This ranks Oracle with the second most government contracts signed between Google (6 contracts), Amazon (30 contracts) , and Microsoft (100 contracts).
The following chart presents Oracle’s lobbying activity for April 2023.
| Communication Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2023-04-18 | Scott Jones, Executive Vice President | President’s Office, Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |
February 2023 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Brad McNeil, PhD Candidate (McMaster University)
This brief blog post presents Oracle’s lobbying communication reports submitted for February 2023. In February 2023, Oracle only logged two communication reports both with the Registry of lobbyist on the topic of “government procurement.” Oracle’s profile in the Registry of Lobbyists notes that the company actively” “seeks to identify and secure federal procurement opportunities as it relates to innovating public service delivery”. Though it is hard to interpret what Oracle lobbied Shared Services Canada about, securing government contracts continues to be an important objective for Oracle as the company competes with larger tech platforms in the realm of cloud services. Through January and February 2023, Oracle signed two government contracts valued over $10,000. On January 23, 2023, Oracle signed a contract valued at $10,738.95 with the National Film Board for work related to “License/Maintenance fees for client software related to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)”. On February 24, 2023 Oracle signed a contract valued at $72,729.92 with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada for work related to “License/Maintenance fees for App Software.”
| Communication Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2023-02-16 | Robert Ianiro, ADM Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |
| 2023-02-16 | Robert Ianiro, ADM Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |
November and December 2022 Lobbying Update: Oracle
By: Brad McNeil, PhD Student (McMaster University)
This brief blog post presents Oracle’s lobbying communication reports submitted for the months of November and December 2022. Also presented are the government contracts valued over $10,000 that Oracle signed during these months. Though Oracle did not register many communication reports over the combined months of November and December 2022. However, it appears that Oracle is focused on issues related to the procurement of government contracts.
Oracle Canada: November and December Lobbying Summaries
In November 2022, Oracle Canada logged one lobbying communication on the subject of “Budget” with a Deputy Director of Policy at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Finance Canada (FIN).
Oracle also logged one lobbying communication on the topic of “Government Procurement” with an Assistant Deputy Minister of the Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS). Oracle’s lobbying profile on the Registry of Lobbyist website notes broadly that the company “seeks to identify and secure federal procurement opportunities as it relates to innovating public service delivery.” Through November and December 2022, Oracle signed seven government contracts. These contracts were signed with Global Affairs Canada ($38,356.74), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ($12,603.88), National Research Council Canada ($19,635.50), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ($42,995.74), Sgoogleocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($42,995.74), Shared Services Canada ($24,119.90), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ($217,480.97). The work description for these contracts involves activities related to the optimization of the listed government department’s application development and delivery software.
Oracle November 2022 Lobbying Communications
| Communications | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2022-11-04 | Bud Sambasivam, Deputy Director of Policy Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Finance Canada (FIN) | Budget | Pierre Cyr (Consultant) |
Oracle December 2022 Lobbying Communications
| Communications | Lobbied | Subject | Responsible Officer |
| 2022-12-01 | Ross Ermel, Assistant Deputy Minister Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |
Oracle Lobbying Update for October 2022
By: Helen Beny, PhD Candidate (McMaster University)
Oracle Canada lobbied the Chief Technology officer Shared Services Canada (SSC) Matt Davies regarding government procurement to seek opportunities related to innovating public service delivery. This meeting took place after the signing of four contracts this past September.
In September, Oracle Canada attained four government contracts with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, National Film Board, and Shared Services Canada. The listed contracts were related to utility software, storage, telecommunication consults and application software amassing a total cost of 1.4 million.
In the past 12 months, Oracle has lobbied the government on fourteen occasions.
| Communication Date | Lobbied | Subject Matters | Responsible Officer |
| 2022-09-29 | Matt Davies, Chief Technology Officer Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Government Procurement | Kevin Tetreault (Consultant) |