Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wouldn't say it's the fault of the Department of Public Works or the fault of any department in general. What I'm saying is that we had briefed Members of the problems that are occurring in the tendering process. Even by us passing the fall budget for capital projects, if we don't do other things, it doesn't help with passing the fall budget. There's a process that takes approximately 18 months, I believe, to get a proposal from the initial stage to tendering. We have a problem with the process and we're attempting to fix it, and that's the process of getting all the information from the client departments to the department, as well as the community consultation through the departments, then go to tender. Tender is the very last portion of it. As I've shown Members, the bottleneck is just prior to the consultation phase of it, prior to where we go to proposal call for architectural and engineering drawings. And we are picking up a lot of the slack once it goes into the private sector and once it does go to tender, so the majority of the projects are coming in on time and on budget. We're lucky to be able to do that under the existing process we are working under right now, and we are attempting to fix that process. Thank you.
Don Morin on Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
In the Legislative Assembly on March 31st, 1995. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 30th, 1995
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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