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Author: Freeman LewinEvents
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Ottawa has tabled Bill C-40 to make the Defence Investment Agency a Crown corporation with delegated contracting authority, pulling large defence buys out of the defence department and Public Services and Procurement Canada. Ministers headline billions committed and sell the change as the fix for a procurement logjam. Falsified if the new agency merely inherits live solicitations and thresholds, leaving the tender and award record unbroken. The test is the federal tender-posting and contract-award register: solicitation counts, solicitation-to-award elapsed days and award-size mix re-base under a new publisher before any of it reaches appropriations or supplier revenue.
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Confers delegated authority and new thresholds on the agency. Delegation and threshold changes are what decide which contracts must appear in the public tender register, shifting the observable award mix.
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Frames the reform as breaking a logjam, an elapsed-time and throughput problem. That is precisely what solicitation-to-award timing in the award register measures, and it is measurable without any company disclosure.
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The bill itself delegates contracting authority to a new Crown body rather than adding budget. The register that records solicitations and awards changes publisher, so the procurement record becomes the leading indicator of the spending push.
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