Gord Johns at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 8th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 8th, 2022 / 4:40 p.m.

NDP

Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC

I'm going to ask you about single bidders. It was identified in your report that 53% of competitive solicitation processes resulted in a single bidder.

Can you explain the large number of single bidders in solicitation processes that are intended to be competitive, and maybe how long this phenomenon of single bidders in competitive processes has been the norm? How could government contracting be better simplified to increase competition?

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