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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much. The way you depicted the sequence is good. The conference in Port-au-Prince was to inform the bidders prior to their final submission, and the process was never completed. After the earthquake we paused and relaunched the process. Essentially everybody who h
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee The two bidders didn't meet the mandatory requirement, so we had to relaunch it.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee They are Canadian mandatory requirements, but they're contractual requirements. They're not necessarily linked to the building code. That is the next step once we've selected the builder.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee That's right.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee What I'm alluding to are Treasury Board contractual rules, so at this point it's a matter of the bidders meeting those rules.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much for your question. First let me assure you that we are determined to have this police academy built. True, the project was launched in 2008. The request for proposal was launched in 2009. Of course, there was the earthquake, so we had to stop the process. And
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee Absolutely. The work was started before the earthquake, and then the earthquake happened. There was a bidders' conference during the earthquake, and some of the bidders were in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake happened. So we had to pause for a little while and relaunch the pro
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee No, they were—
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee They were international, that's right, but the bidders' conference was held in Haiti. As I said, the mandatory requirements weren't met by the bidders, so we had to relaunch the process. But we are determined to get this police academy going, and we are hoping that by spring 201
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, the spring of 2012.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee There was an earthquake in the meantime.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee The site is cleared, and we are working on the request for proposal. It has been relaunched, and we're waiting for proposals from bidders.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee We've launched the process and we're in the middle of that process.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee We've got to follow the rules.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard
Foreign Affairs committee No, of course not. We were having this conference of bidders in Port-au-Prince to have a conversation with the bidders themselves, but because of the earthquake we had to stop the process.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Isabelle Bérard