Gabriel Cormier
Senior Faculty Member at the Canada School of Public Service

Mr. Cormier is currently a facilitator at the Canada School of Public Service since January 2014 in the field of procurement and contracting as well as the President of CIPMM.  Before becoming a senior faculty member, he has worked in many of the GoC departments mostly in procurement and contracting.

From 2009 to December 2013, Mr. Cormier worked as the Director of Support Vehicles Program Management (DSVPM) for the Canadian Armed Forces with extensive experience in leadership, management, procurement policy and strategic planning gained through various positions held with the Department of National Defence, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Passport Canada, Environment Canada, and Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

Recruited from university, Mr. Cormier started his procurement officer career at the Department of National Defence (DND), in late 1985, where for 6 years, he was a contracting officer for the then ADM(Mat)/CS/DGProcS/DPSCU. Mr. Cormier then moved to DProcRO, whereby he was responsible for the repair contracts of the CF-5 Depot Level Inspection & Repair (DLIR) program. 

In 1992, Mr. Cormier moved to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as a senior contracting officer for the Food Aid Program. He worked with others in making sure that proper labelling by vendors was performed in compliance to the Federal Identity Program (FIP). Mr. Cormier then moved to Corporate Management as a contracting policy officer where he developed CIDA’s first electronic Contracting Policy and Procedure manual while providing contracting policy advice to CIDA’s officials and procurement colleagues.

In 1998, Mr. Cormier crossed over to Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) as a Supply Specialist in the informatics world. It gave him an opportunity to better understand PWGSC’s procurement processes and practices.

In 2000, Mr. Cormier left PWGSC to become the contracting manager at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) for a period of almost 6 years. At NRCan, Mr. Cormier rebuilt the contracting unit after it had been downsized a few years back. In 2005, Mr. Cormier was seconded to Passport Canada (PPTC) as A/Director of Project Management Framework to set up a Project Management Framework Office. Following this secondment, Mr. Cormier was called upon in 2007/08, via another secondment, to become A/Director of Workplace Services and Contracting at Environment Canada. In 2008, he did an 8 month assignment with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada to then join again DND in February 2009.

Mr. Cormier has been a guest speaker at the Canadian Institute for Procurement and Materiel Management (CIPMM). He has also been a member of many intergovernmental committees such as the Treasury Board Advisory Committee on Contracting (TBACC), Client Advisory Board (CAB), Green Procurement, to name a few.

Mr. Cormier’s educational background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Administration and a Bachelor’s degree with specialization in Public Administration both from the University of Ottawa and a Diploma in Public Administration from l’École nationale de l’administration publique (ÉNAP) in Gatineau, Québec.