Procurement and Supply Division (PSD) is responsible for providing operational advice on selecting and managing procurement frameworks and processes, including how to navigate policy and trade agreements.
PSD’s services include:
- Procurement forecasting, planning and facilitation with ministries and broader public sector clients
- Procurement advice and consultation to ministries on the procurement phases and IMIT risks
- Managing the acquisition of goods, services or construction, including intake, solicitation posting, management, closing and debriefing, when required by policy or when engaged by a ministry or broader public sector client for that purpose
- Procurement education and best practice to ministry and broader public sector clients
- Establishing and managing the Corporate Supply Arrangements
- Managing the Goods and Services Catalogue
- Managing the Province’s Solicitation Templates
- Managing the BC Bid application (the Province’s electronic tendering portal) and the BC Bid Help Desk
PSD operates under a cost recovery model according to this fee structure.
Ministries are to engage PSD where:
- Circumstances identified in Procurement Policy 9 apply
- The ministry may lack procurement expertise or have limited capacity
- There is uncertainty regarding the appropriate procurement methodology
- The value of the procurement is above specified thresholds
- The ministry is interested in utilizing any of the services listed in the section above