Mr. Chairman, of course departments are responsible for their own procurement and provide oversight in that capacity, but oversight to the government is done through Financial Management Board Secretariat who take a look at how departments are carrying out their procurement to make sure it's done within the regulations and within government policy and if not, that is the one body that follows that up. Our role in terms of procurement is really about ensuring that there's transparency, and that the contract registry is functioning well and adequate people have access to that information. It allows us to do things like measure some of our programs, such as the BIP. In order for us to understand how effective the BIP was or wasn't, we were able to use the contract registry and that's what we would use and that's our role really in the contract registry, but oversight and procurement, government as a whole is FMBS and also done department by department. Thank you.
Brendan Bell on Committee Motion 23-15(4): Recommendation To Review Transferring The Contract Registry To Fmbs, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 22nd, 2006. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 23-15(4): Recommendation To Review Transferring The Contract Registry To Fmbs, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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