Ensuring Competitiveness and Accountability with OntarioBuys
Issue The OntarioBuys program is a provincially-funded shared-service organization (SSO) and an example of this problem. Under its organizational sphere, SSOs have developed RFP procurement processes that include stipulations which reduce the competitiveness of small and medium sized business in bidding on provincial contracts. Of the many SSOs, the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM) is…