The Procurement branch is responsible for the management and oversight of purchasing across the Municipality. As the stewards of responsible public spending, Procurement has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the Municipality’s spending be conducted with the highest level of transparency, openness, and fairness that affords equal access to all qualified suppliers and to the maintenance of public trust through adherence to our procurement principles.
The New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA) is an accord between the Governments of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba that creates Canada’s largest, barrier-free, interprovincial market.
Under the NWPTA, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the first jurisdictions in Canada to commit to full mutual recognition or reconciliation of their rules affecting trade, investment or labour mobility so as to remove barriers to the free movement of goods, services, investment, and people within and between the three provinces.
ROA Supplier Gateway is a collaborative industry tool that connects businesses with new opportunities from some of the largest producers operating in the Oil Sands Region. This innovative online portal will be utilized by the Regional Oil Sands Operating Alliance (ROA) to establish a critical link for businesses to showcase capabilities and access new opportunities.
We invite you to register your business to untap new opportunities in the Canadian Oil Sands Region and showcase your company’s capabilities and promote uniqueness. Once the portal is live, you will have full access to the dashboard of opportunities including useful resources and tools to support the pre-qualification process.
To register your business, you must provide the following information:
- Accurate business information such as name, location, point of contact;
- Information regarding business capacity including an outline of service offerings;
- Have the appropriate personnel, management, and financial capacity to safety deliver goods and/or services.
Mandatory minimum 5% Indigenous procurement target
The requirement for federal departments and agencies ensures a minimum 5% of the total value of contracts are held by Indigenous businesses.
The Government of Canada is increasing economic opportunities for First Nations, Inuit and Métis businesses through the federal procurement process.
For the purposes of the 5% target, an Indigenous business is defined as:
- Elders, band and tribal councils
- businesses registered in the Government of Canada’s Indigenous Business Directory
- businesses on a beneficiary business list
The mandatory 5% minimum Indigenous procurement target is being implemented in 3 phases to allow departments and agencies to update planning and processes to support implementation.
All departments and agencies are to meet or exceed the 5% target no later than the fiscal year-end of 2024 to 2025, as set out in the schedule below.
The schedule is based on an assessment of the level of readiness of each applicable department and agency to meet the 5% target. The assessment used prior departmental procurement plans related to the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business.
CanadaBuys
CanadaBuys is a suite of online procurement services launched by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). It significantly improves and streamlines how we do business, moving from paper-based to online processes.