PROCUREMENT
BY MARCELLO SUKHDEO
CanadaBuys seamless, PSPC is rolling out
the transition over time and in phases.
Vanguard recently had the oppor-
tunity to interview Emilio Franco,
Senior Director, Procurement Business
Modernization, PSPC about Canada's
new online procurement system –
CanadaBuys.
Q To begin, please provide an
overview of CanadaBuys and why now is
the right time to move to this system?
Canadian companies have long asked the
federal government to improve its rela-
tionship with suppliers—to make oppor-
tunities easier to find, simpler to navigate
and faster to award, with less administra-
tive burden. Government procurement
is heavily paper-based and offers limited
self-serve options for suppliers
CanadaBuys is a new suite of on-
line procurement services launched by
Public Services and Procurement Canada
AN INTERVIEW WITH
EMILIO FRANCO,
SENIOR DIRECTOR,
PROCUREMENT BUSINESS
MODERNIZATION, PSPC*
I
f you are one of the thousands of
suppliers or businesses that have
been providing products and services
to the Government of Canada, you
would be familiar with BuyandSell.
BuyandSell is a platform that the govern-
ment has been using for many years to post
tender opportunities for interested parties
to submit bids for products and services
required by the government.
Over the past few months, Public
Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)
has been transitioning to a new tendering
platform after consulting with businesses
across Canada. To streamline procurement
processes and to move from paper-based
to online procurement, PSPC launched
CanadaBuys, a new suite of online pro-
curement services, a few months ago.
CanadaBuys operates on the SAP Ariba
platform, a web-based tool that allows
businesses to view and bid on opportuni-
ties with the Government of Canada. To
make the transition from BuyandSell to
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CanadaBuys:
A MORE EFFICIENT PROCUREMENT SYSTEM
