The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to invite your business to participate in a supplier diversity pilot being run by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) in the Western Region. The objective of this pilot is to compile a list of businesses majority-owned by a member(s) of an underrepresented group(s) who can provide goods and/or services for the Western Region. An underrepresented group refers to segments of Canada’s population that are systemically and statistically underrepresented in areas such as employment, procurement, etc. – for instance, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, Black individuals, other visible minorities or racialized persons, as well as those who identify as 2SLGBTQI+. For the purposes of this RFI, Western Canada is defined as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
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Suppliers who have won similar work from this buyer before.
Prime Engineering Ltd. is the most likely incumbent, based on how often and how recently they have won this buyer’s work in this category. To displace them, expect to need a clearly stronger proposition or price.