Mr. Speaker, I have a return to written question asked by Mr. Yakeleya on March 7, 2011, regarding negotiated contracts in the Sahtu region.
1. Please provide the number of negotiated
contracts and the amount of each one for the communities of Fort Good Hope, Colville Lake, Deline, Norman Wells and Tulita, issued to local contractors over the past three fiscal years.
2. Please provide the number of negotiated
contracts and the amounts for each one in the Sahtu issued to contractors based outside of each community over the past three years.
I would like to advise that the Negotiated Contracts Policy (11.25) requires the Premier to prepare and make publicly available an annual report on all negotiated contracts awarded in accordance with that policy. Three reports have been published since the policy’s establishment, and later today, at the appropriate time, I will be tabling those reports.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.