Opening Keynote: Procurement Modernization
Brenda Constantine, Senior Director, Strategic Policy Division, PSPC
This Opening Keynote will update us on the work of PSPC in its Procurement Modernization efforts to modernize procurement practices so that they are simpler, less administrative burdensome, deploy modern comptrollership and include practices that support our economic policy goals, including green and social procurement.
Session # 2 - Fairness Monitoring
Steve Johnston, Managing Director, RFP Solutions Inc.
This concurrent session will provide participants with the opportunity to learn about the Fairness Monitoring Program for procurements completed by PSPC as well as to determine how they might use a Fairness Monitor for their own departmental/ agency procurement activities.
Session # 3 - Client Relations
Caroline Landry, Regional Director, National Capital Region, Public Services and Procurement Canada
This concurrent session will provide participants with information on the 2015 Client Satisfaction survey conducted by the client Engagement Coordination directorate for the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Engagement (OSME-SE) of PSPC and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss areas of concern.
Session # 4 - The Impact of Comprehensive Land Claim Agreements (CLCA's) on your process
Dennis Brunner, Senior Advisor, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
This concurrent session will provide participants with information on how the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreements (CLCA’s) may impact on contractual obligations that need to be addressed if the location of the work or the delivery location for an anticipated contract falls within one or more CLA areas. This session provides awareness to participants on how to interpret the various economic measures Chapters or Articles of the twenty-five CLCA's during Canada's contracting process.
Session # 5 – Build in Canada Innovation Program
Glenn Chamberlain, Acting Regional Director, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises
This concurrent session will provide participants with a description of the Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP), how it works and what its benefits are for both the government departments and Canadian innovative companies. The program buys new, pre-commercial Canadian innovations, and gives them to federal departments (and increasingly provincial and other partners) for testing in an operational setting. Some specific cases and examples of these innovative procurements will be shared.
Lunch and roundtable with a Keynote Speaker
Government wide Procurement Modernization
Sarah Paquet, ADM Procurement Modernization Integration Team, TBS and PSPC
This roundtable will allow all participants to weigh in on Government of Canada’s commitment to modernize procurement, notably by achieving a better integration of the efforts underway at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) and Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). This will be an exciting opportunity for participants to hear about what's next for our profession and provide your own perspective on any recommendations for change that are developed.
Session # 6 - Supplier Engagement
Kalvinder Brar, Manager, Supplier Engagement, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises and Stakeholder Engagement
This concurrent session will provide participants with suggestions as to best practices to engage the supplier community and to improve the effectiveness of the relationship.
Session # 7 - Assets Management
Blair Hurd, Assets Manager, Materiel and Assets Management Division, Health Canada
This concurrent session will provide participants with an update on the Materiel Management Working Group that was discussed at the CIPMM National Workshop and describe the next steps that are planned to build the Working Group and to ensure a better understand what it means to be a functional specialist in this field.
Session # 8 - Whistleblowing regime in the federal public sector
Edith Lachapelle, Manager, Communications, Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada
The term “whistleblowing” is becoming an increasingly popular topic for debate and policy development across Canada and internationally. Blowing the whistle is typically seen as requiring a great deal of courage. However, each of us who has chosen to pursue a career in the public sector should feel that reporting suspected wrongdoings is the right thing to do. This concurrent session will provide an overview of the role and mandate of the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner as it relates to the federal whistleblower protection regime and aims to raise awareness about the options available to federal public servants who may witness wrongdoing at some point in their career.
Session # 9 - Essential Transformation: A Vision for the Procurement Group in the Government of Canada
Jessica Sultan, Director, Strategic Procurement and Material Management Division, CBSA
Essential Transformation: A Vision for the Procurement Group in the Government of Canada This concurrent session will detail the rapid transformation undergoing the procurement group within the Government of Canada. Effectively managing these changes will require a change of mindset: a move away from working in “silos”, considering only the challenges in our own departments, and toward adopting a broader vision of community. The efficiencies that could be gained if we worked together are staggering, and would free-up resources to address the real backbone of the community: procurement
