I know there's lots of controversy with single-source procurement. Forgive my ignorance on this if it does happen, but is there a process whereby if you've been on a contract, perhaps in that contract there's some type of waypoint that may lead to another procurement, the point being that there's a benefit if you reach that benchmark?
I used to work on programs for persons with disabilities, youth at risk, and new Canadians finding employment, but I was always having to renew contracts. We had a 90% success rate in their finding employment or going back to the workplace or going back to school, but we were renewing the contract every six months. We did that for six years. A lot of energy was gone there. I understand that there needs to be accountability—and there was—but it was almost at a point where it was draining the resources and the capabilities of the investment.
Is there any type of a hybrid model that perhaps could extend it or give some earned benefit for experience, but with high expectations and measurables and accountability? For example, if you invested in this procurement and you got it, another window could be extended a lot more easily for renewal, versus running the entire process again, which can be quite draining.