Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Public Works and Services and I want to follow up on my Member’s statement about procurement.
I gave an example in my Member’s statement and the example I gave means that there’s an extra cost to both the government and to the taxpayers. We are paying a premium in this case which is at least 40 percent, 50 percent more than what we should.
So, I’d like to first ask the Minister something that I asked in my statement. Is there a maximum amount or what is the amount that we are willing to pay before we will cancel a tender and start again?
I mentioned 200 percent, 300 percent; in this case it’s 40 or 50 percent. But is there a policy or a guideline that we use? I would like to remind the Minister that in his statement today he talked about reasonable prices, and this is a perfect example of an unreasonable price that we are paying. Thank you.