Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The business incentive policy is administered by the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. I do not want to speak on their behalf in terms of how the policy is administered. It is intended to provide a degree of preference for northern businesses when contracts are awarded through the competitive process. The only two forms of competitive process that we are involved with are requests for proposals and tender calls. The tenders are awarded almost entirely on the basis of costs, who submits the lowest bid. As you know, proposal calls are for when we are not quite sure how we want to have it done and we want some idea, some creative proposals on how to do it. It does contain an element of cost. With sole-sourced and negotiated contracts, the BIP is not much of a factor because sole-sourced means you cannot get the service or the goods from anything other than one source within the timeframe that it is needed, particularly when you have emergency requirements. Negotiated contracts are not heavily impacted by BIP because BIP is applied when contracts are awarded, when there is a degree of preference needed in the awarding of contracts. The business incentive policy is applied to contracts awarded through the competitive process and is not really much of an issue in those other areas you identified. Thank you.
Mr. Lovely on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 15th, 1998
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