Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we are examining ways of ensuring that smaller, more local, companies are able to benefit from contracts. One of the ways is to make sure that the contracts are not so large that local firms are not able to bid on them, to make them into smaller bite size contracts. That way the local firms are able to take on some of these pieces of work, whereas previously they were not able to because the contract may have been too large.
Tony Whitford on Committee Motion 229-12(2): To Adopt Recommendation No. 96
In the Legislative Assembly on October 2nd, 1992. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 229-12(2): To Adopt Recommendation No. 96
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 1st, 1992
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