Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Previously, I had quite a bit of experience working with contracts, being Minister of DPW and Housing Corporation. By all means, we do not want to put a contract out to tender and pull it back. That is not the way to do business. That is not good government. Normally through negotiated contracts, the communities already know from the previous year that this work is going to be done in the community. It usually takes quite a few months and sometimes up to six months to negotiate and work up to that. They should know that already. But now that our budget is public and it has just about been passed, I would encourage Members to work with their communities to identify capital projects in that budget they would like to see negotiated and the sooner the better. I do not want to go to tender on things and have to take them back from tender. Thank you.
Don Morin on Question 459-13(4): Timeframe For Negotiated Contracts
In the Legislative Assembly on March 5th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 459-13(4): Timeframe For Negotiated Contracts
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 4th, 1997
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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