Madam Chair, Mr. Angus, thank you for the opportunity to speak about the fairness monitor policy.
I'll turn to English and try to be as clear as I can in relation to this.
The Department of Public Works adopted a framework in 2005 related to the fairness monitor. Since then we have had 23 situations in which a fairness monitor was used in procurements. Those could be large procurements or smaller procurements.
It is very clear in that framework that there is no mandatory requirement for a fairness monitor. That being said, it is mandatory to consider the involvement of a fairness monitor for requirements over $250 million.
In our consideration, there are certain criteria that we need to look into, such as the nature of the requirement, the complexity of the selection process, the nature of the industry, and so on.