Natural Resources committee  That is correct.

Natural Resources committee  From a procurement perspective, PSPC is the government's common service provider. We provide services to more than 100 federal departments and agencies, and we're undertaking numerous steps to modernize our procurement to make sure we incorporate better environmental and sustaina

Government Operations committee  I think the use of outcome-based procurement, agile procurement methodologies, and so on and so forth, is fairly new to federal government procurement. It's not new necessarily to the marketplace, but fairly new in terms of how we can go about incorporating it as part of our day-

Government Operations committee  It's a loaded question. The questions are very good. First of all, yes, of course Public Services Procurement Canada does work with Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. We do work closely on a number of fronts, not to mention the outreach efforts that we have, not only region

Government Operations committee  I would simply add to what my colleague has stated that it's not only the CETA. The WTO agreement on government procurement also provides sub-federal entity coverage as well. We would have to be mindful of both trade agreements and obligations therein. Similar types of rules woul

Government Operations committee  The United States has not included sub-federal coverage in any of its trade agreements, as far as I'm concerned.

Government Operations committee  As to the fair wages policy itself, I understand that the Department of Employment and Social Development Canada is developing a modernized fair wages policy. It's currently in development. PSPC is supporting ESDC in that regard. They're looking at what would constitute a modern

Government Operations committee  For anything we would be putting in place at PSPC, we would be consulting with our colleagues at Global Affairs and at Justice Canada to ensure that we are on the right side of our obligations under the trade agreements.

Government Operations committee  Maybe I'll field that one. In terms of how it works for PSPC, PSPC is a common service provider. A client department comes to us with its requirement. That's the first stage. That requirement, though, can be clear as mud, or it can be clear. PSPC works with that department to cl

Government Operations committee  In general, I covered off coverage, but there are all those procedural rules that I had in my opening statement, a plethora of procedural rules. Each of them has to be adhered to—timelines, so on and so forth. In terms of the CITT, I did bring stats with me just to show you PSPC

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I'll take a stab at this, and then we can look over to my colleagues. We are already witness to something very similar to what you've described, in the context of defence procurement under the industrial and technical benefits policy. It's the use of the value propositi

Government Operations committee  Compliance is understanding the agreements and the obligations contained therein. Then, of course, there's implementation of those agreements. We've implemented two this summer: the CETA and the CFTA. We need to update our contract clauses through our standard acquisitions clause

Government Operations committee  I'm not going to speak for the system in the States. I will say, however, that being set aside from the agreements allows the U.S. to employ any mechanism, including open competition and non-open competition. As a matter of clarity, I'll also specify that the simplified acquisiti

Government Operations committee  To clarify, in terms of monetary thresholds for coverage, the CFTA provides $25,000 as a threshold, NAFTA provides $28,900 as a threshold for goods, and the WTO and CETA, $221,400. In what is currently the state of play on vendor performance, yes, Canada does not employ a regime

Government Operations committee  I am aware they're using a scoring system to a certain extent. It's based like KPI, key performance indicators. We would be examining a similar type of system. Without confining myself to what we're up to, we are examining that type of system as well.