I have a Return to Written Question 5-16(2) asked by Mr. Bromley on February 8, 2008, regarding contracts and services from southern vendors.
What contracted services does GNWT have with southern vendors?
At any given time the GNWT has a number of contracted services with southern vendors. Most often these include specialty services not available in the North or services provided by vendors who have won publicly tendered contracts or proposal calls.
PWS does not contract services for the government as a whole but only for services for which we are responsible. Services may include consulting, construction, IT-related consulting and hardware supply, petroleum products, maintenance services and building leases.
Later today, at the appropriate time, I will table a listing of PWS’ contracted services with southern vendors for 2007–2008.
What are the costs of these GNWT contracted services with southern vendors?
The number and value of southern contracts PWS has managed for the past three years are presented in the following tables.
April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006:
Total all PWS contracts: 545
Total value: $73,734,356.62
Total all southern PWS contracts: 66
Total value: $6,991,391.71
April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007:
Total all PWS contracts: 527
Total value: $104,325,192.65
Total all southern PWS contracts: 57
Total value: $15,187,064.74
April 1, 2007 to date
Total all PWS contracts: 373
Total value: $106,339,130.30
Total all southern PWS contracts: 51
Total value: $34,870,577.60
Note that this includes one large tendered bulk fuel supply contract to Bluewave Energy for $27,673,116.
The Department of Industry Tourism and Investment (ITI) are responsible for maintaining the central contract registry for all GNWT contract reporting. A comprehensive list of all GNWT contracts over $5,000 for the past three fiscal years can be found at:
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/contract_registry/
contract_report.htm
Hard copies of these reports can be provided, if required.
How many jobs are associated with the GNWT contracted services from southern vendors?
We are assuming that you are asking for the number of contracts PWS has in place with southern vendors.
April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006:
Total all southern PWS contracts: 66
April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007:
Total all southern PWS contracts: 57
April 1, 2007 to date:
Total all southern PWS contracts: 51
Although these contracts are with southern vendors, some of them may subcontract portions of the work to northern companies and individuals. This information, however, is not tracked in the GNWT contract information system.
In addition, some contracts listed as southern are to companies that reside in the North. If companies located in the North are not registered with the Business Incentive Policy (BIP) monitoring office, they are considered non-northern (southern) businesses. An example of these contracts includes Inuvik Commercial Properties and Gwich’in Development Corporation. Both are partially or wholly northern owned and operated but are listed as non-northern on the registry.
