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Indigenous Services Canada is responsible for implementing and advising on the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business program, including verifying the eligibility of businesses receiving contracts under the strategy and maintaining the Indigenous Business Directory.
As the lead, ISC is responsible for the PSIB's eligibility criteria, including verifying, certifying and auditing indigenous businesses listed on the IBD, thus ensuring only firms that are entitled to these contracts receive them. ISC continues to actively work with indigenous partners to co-develop a new transformative indigenous procurement strategy that will improve procurement policies, safeguards and processes for indigenous businesses.
As per the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Procurement, Public Services and Procurement Canada is responsible for developing operational tools to support procurement undertaken on behalf of other government departments, such as guidance, templates and standard contract clauses. This responsibility includes developing tools to—