Government Operations committee  First of all, I think it's very, very important to keep in mind that we buy on behalf of all the departments, and departments are determining their needs. The strategy we have developed as a way forward in department renewal is that for all of what is commonly bought in large qua

Government Operations committee  I'd like to conclude by saying that we are looking forward to reading your report. We had an opportunity to review the transcripts, and there has been a lot of good value-added and innovation provided to the committee.

Government Operations committee  It is very important to point out that for standing offers or temporary help agreements, there are very specific rules that apply. If a secretary or assistant is away one day, they have direct access, for set periods. This does not involve long-term replacements…

Government Operations committee  That is a good question. We gave the example of temporary help. We deal with more than 100 departments, and they all have to make use of temporary help services. So, we developed a tool which allows them to access such services. We created a competitive process. As part of the go

Government Operations committee  I am not able to discuss the results of the consultation. However, some of our observations have been that these small and medium enterprises are currently offering a lot of technology-related professional services and that they are asking that part of the professional services n

Government Operations committee  We will be making a recommendation. We have held consultations. When we hold consultations, we have to review the feedback. After we have done that, we will be making a recommendation.

Government Operations committee  This is quite a big question. It's twofold, because we could spend hours on risk and what it is. If you compare with a major crown project to build some frigates and all that's involved in that, the notion of risk is different from when you're talking about risk related to the go

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Roy, thank you for your question. Before giving Industry Canada officials an opportunity to respond, I think it is important to clarify that a small enterprise has fewer than 100 employees and that a medium enterprise has fewer than 500. The statistics we provided you include

Government Operations committee  It's an interesting question, in the sense that in order to come up with a position on this we need to go through quite an analysis that leads to negotiations as part of the trade agreement. I was involved in one type of set-aside--the aboriginal set-aside--and it has had some

Government Operations committee  Because we are talking about small business mainly, my comments relate to commodities the government buys in large quantities. To the question that Madame Bourgeois raised before, we mentioned that in The Way Forward initiative in procurement renewal we did focus on commodity ma

Government Operations committee  This is a very, very good example, to try to very quickly go through the considerations. For military buses, the first question we ask ourselves is whether or not it's subject to a trade agreement. In this case, it could be subject to the AIT or not subject to the AIT. If it's n

Government Operations committee  The Canadian content policy applies only when you can demonstrate that you have three. In this case, you had two and one.

Government Operations committee  Therefore, we did take that to heart, because the requirement at first was to have one supplier, one contract. Now, through the industry analysis, who can produce that in Canada and working in concert, when it comes time to re-procure this commodity--and there is a need--we will

Government Operations committee  You have to open it to the world, to the countries that are part of that.