Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe there’s a previous commitment to share, I guess, the goals and objectives of procurement shared services with committee, and we will do that, but we’ve got to take the opportunities.
The incremental ask here is for $165,000 and what we’re trying to do here is create, I guess, for lack of a better term, a centre of excellence around procurement. As a total, the government takes hundreds of millions of dollars of procurement every year and rather than having that left to people who aren’t practiced in that area, or in some cases even hold a professional certification in that area, is to create a centre of excellence so that that hundreds of millions of dollars in procurement gets undertaken by those professionals who actually have certification in that area and have experience in that area.
The other benefit I would suggest would be is that all procurement would be undertaken in the same manner, and we’ve heard from business that, depending on which department they deal with, the experience is different, the processes are different, and to bring some consistency to that process and some certainty to that process. So when industry or business undertake a contract or compete for a contract for the Government of the Northwest Territories, they will do so in a manner that’s consistent every time they do it.
So, as I said, we will share the goals and objectives of the procurement shared services that will be used to measure the success of that in the years to come. Thank you.