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Government Operations committee  I take your point. The supplier community is always concerned about the speed of procurement, especially for small and medium businesses, but we've had a number of tools in place. We also do pre-facilitated contracts, which are standing offer and supply arrangements that are already in place and allow departments to immediately access those suppliers on these documents.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things. Your question is a very good question. The answer is yes. We do analyze the actual volume of suppliers to see how many suppliers repeat in our business and how many new suppliers come in. Of course, we're very interested in ensuring a diversity of suppliers and new suppliers, because part of the notion of value is to ensure we broaden and expand our supplier base.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  Given the terminology, I'll answer in English.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  I can speak a little to that.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  I'll be very quick. We actually work with INAC and we've tried to coordinate our event planning and activities. Right now, we work with INAC and we target I think about 25 to 30 major events across the country. In addition, my own organization, OSME, sets its own targets to engage indigenous and aboriginal communities right across Canada.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely. In fact, we have an aboriginal engagement strategy, which is led out of the Pacific office of OSME for the whole country.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  We can share that with you, absolutely.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  Could I add something?

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  In terms of the procurement strategies, of course, that form the base of the procurement action plan, if you can put it that way—they include the consideration of exactly this, so that we can understand what the options are. One of them is to ensure that SMEs have access, but we can also produce meaningful tools that help SMEs be part of a supply chain.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  Yes, I can answer that. In a sense, it's linked to the opportunity. There is a certain amount that goes through PSAB, which is mandatory, so that defines a certain opportunity. I have to say that you're absolutely right: when the policy was first introduced, it became an incentive for a number of first nations entities to create economic businesses that could fall within the PSAB designation.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray

Government Operations committee  What I can say is that in terms of our engagement, we engage right across the country, but of course the size of aboriginal businesses and communities is relative to the demographics across the country. For example, 50%.... We have a huge number of businesses in western Canada, especially in the Pacific region, because that's where the largest number of first nations are in Canada.

October 31st, 2017Committee meeting

Desmond Gray