The Member for Thebacha requested that the Minister of Public Works and Services identify all capital projects over $5,000 managed by the Department of Public Works and Services on behalf of the government in fiscal years 1997-98,1998-99, and 1999-00 to date. For each of the contracts, the Member requested the client department, initial project estimate budget, actual costs to date, projected additional costs to complete the project and the name of the primary contractor.
A copy of the 1997-98 Contract Report, the 1998-99 Contract Report and year-to-date listing of contracts for 1999-00 have been provided to the Member separately. The 1998-99 and 1999-00 reports identify the community, the project name, the month and year of award, the type of contract, the contractor to whom the contract was awarded, the local, northern or southern status of the contractor, the contract value at time of award, the planned year of completion, the type of tender or award, and the BIP status of the contractor. The information in the 1997-98 contract report is similar.
Information on cost estimates, project budgets and project costs is contained within project files and main estimate documents, which must be individually researched. Since it would be prohibitively expensive to research over 900 projects covered by the question, the department has limited the collection of budget and cost information to projects valued at over $1 million.