Federal procurement system ‘bogus,’ needs fixes: longtime bidder

The feds say they're 'committed to open, fair, transparent, and competitive procurement processes,' and trying to 'modernize' the system to make it simpler.

Public Services and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough is 'undertaking a large exercise to modernize procurement practices so that they are simpler, less administratively burdensome,' according to her department. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

January 17, 2018

The federal government's procurement system isn’t fair or serving taxpayers well, says one longtime supplier whose companies have won government contracts worth millions of dollars. “They’ve got a bogus procurement system, i...

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