This is a very important point to make here. I think some of the recent changes that we have seen with BIP is how those design-build RFPs are evaluated. I share the Member’s concern, that oftentimes the local subcontractors don’t get the work and the work goes someplace else. I think we’ve done a great deal of work, working with the Construction Association here in the Northwest Territories and other stakeholders, to ensure that we come up with an evaluation criteria that is going to allow the maximum extent possible of local and northern content so that those dollars stay in the North and continue to work to benefit our economy here in the Northwest Territories, not somebody else’s economy. I appreciate the Member’s concerns that we are putting our best efforts to looking at that. I know Public Works and Services has done a good job on that as well. Going forward, the evaluation criteria are something that we are going to address in a serious way.
David Ramsay on Question 45-17(2): Business Incentive And Northern Manufacturing Policies
In the Legislative Assembly on February 10th, 2012. See this statement in context.
Question 45-17(2): Business Incentive And Northern Manufacturing Policies
Oral Questions
February 9th, 2012
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