For sole-source contracts, we seek price support to ensure that the prices that we're paying are in line with market rates. That could be looking for price certification from a vendor, essentially certifying that Canada is being provided the best price in line with other preferred customers. As well, we may ask for things like invoices and charges to other customers for similar quantity and quality of the goods and services.
On November 9th, 2023. See this statement in context.