Thank you, Madam Chair. A few things, there. This wears both my hats because some of the procurement tracking is through infrastructure, as well. That's good. That's probably why both of these are usually with the same person. That work is going on. I have asked in that department for a review of where the money is being spent in the different regions. We are conducting that overarching procurement and BIP review that we've been discussing lots and then coming to AOC for conversations and input on moving forward.
The BIP office in Hay River is the BIP office. There are two people working there. They are there to check whether there is eligibility being met, those types of things, in the registration of the BIP companies. They have also been doing BIP training. All regions have an update on their BIP companies done in the last three years. We have the Beaufort Delta and the Sahtu to be done this year. We did 15 BIP workshops in 2019-2020. Those were stopped by COVID. We're ready to go once we are allowed to get back at it. That was actually one of the first things I said was one of my frustrations. I know the Member and I have talked about this, was always trying to go to a community, put somebody in my form as a BIP registered company, knowing they're a northern-owned company but that they weren't in the registry because, literally, they just hadn't filled out the forms, or no one had showed them how. That was one of the first things I thought we could do, was just getting as many of those companies registered.
To your point that sometimes people haven't phoned the company, as a bidder, for example, if I was to go do work in Tulita, there is one hotel in Tulita. I would obviously stay at the one hotel. It never would have occurred to me that I actually had to call the hotel to say that they would be okay to take me as a guest. I'm going to guess that's probably sometimes why that has happened, is they are maybe the only vendor, or they are the preferred vendor. I would recommend, and I will take that back to my industry counterparts, that they actually contact the companies to tell them that they are planning to stay with them if they use them.
I do acknowledge what you're saying that oftentimes something will be put on the form and that there is no accountability after the fact. Some of that does lie with the client departments, and the project officers for those projects specifically need to be ensuring that what is in the proposal is being met and carried out, and I think that's a larger issue that we've been talking about that needs fixing. I know within infrastructure the project officers have been instructed now, or reminded because they should have been doing it to begin with, but checking to ensure that, if this is the person who is put forward as a BIP northern, local labour, that that person is actually on the job. If you look at the federal government for the same type of situation. they actually require a reporting. I've instructed my department that that has to happen and has to happen now. Thank you, Madam Chair.