Thank you for the question.
Yes, when Shared Services Canada was created, it was the idea, and it remains so, to consolidate and standardize the delivery of IT services. The amendment to section 7 of the Shared Services Canada Act does not in any way undo that desire to consolidate. As has been previously mentioned, it merely mirrors an almost identical section in the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act, which ensures that the management of the procurement is consolidated but that access to the various procurement instruments can be done by the individual departments, because that's the most efficient way to do it.