So the answer is that you don't have control.
Okay, thank you.
I'm sorry, but I have so many questions to ask and so little time.
I keep coming back to the issue of non-competitive contracts because I always feel like I'm not getting good answers about that.
Since 2016, the number of non-competitive contracts reported on the open government portal has skyrocketed. It's gone up by about 30%. That's the percentage that was reported for all of 2023, the last full year for which data is available on non-competitive contracts compared to competitive contracts.
It was actually the report on the ArriveCan file that helped uncover the issue. The more we dug into it, the more we realized that the problem was much more widespread.
It is up to your department to resolve the situation by almost systematically awarding contracts competitively in order to obtain the best possible services at the best possible price for taxpayers.
In concrete terms, what are you doing about this?