2021 Minister’s Transition Book 2: Departmental Plan summary
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Background
The Departmental Plan is a mechanism of ministerial accountability, communicating departmental expenditure plans for the next 3 years, as well as an organization’s priorities, resource requirements and expected results. The plan is tabled annually in Parliament and published for all Canadians.
Status
The 2021 to 2022 Departmental Plan for Public Services and Procurement Canada was tabled in Parliament on February 25, 2021.
Priority 2021 to 2022 activities
In this section
The activities identified below summarize the department’s key plans, which are aligned by core responsibility.
Purchase of goods and services
- Continue to prioritize the purchase of goods and services in support of the government’s response to COVID-19
- Advance the implementation of the cloud-based electronic procurement solution within the department to simplify how suppliers of all sizes and regions of the country do business with the Government of Canada
- Examine new approaches to procurement to provide greater opportunities for supplier diversity, including the launch of pilot procurements to open bidding opportunities for Black owned and/or operated businesses
- Continue to modernize procurement, including the phased implementation of a vendor performance management regime to incentivize suppliers to deliver high-quality goods and services, and developing and implementing innovative procurement approaches to help federal organizations meet their business needs
- Deliver on key procurements in support of Canada’s defence policy: Strong, Secure, Engaged, including by releasing requests for proposals for a number of defence air and land requirements, as well as making key strides in the competitive process to replace the fighter aircraft fleet
- Continue to work with other government departments and industry to renew Canada's federal fleet of combat and non-combat vessels, providing economic benefits to Canadians and rebuilding our country’s shipbuilding industry
Payments and accounting
- Continue progress towards the elimination of the backlog of outstanding pay issues for public servants as a result of the Phoenix pay system
- Deliver high quality, client-centric services by meeting service delivery goals, ensuring the ongoing integrity of pension data, and enabling more services through innovation, so that more than 908,000 active and retired members of pension plans administered by the department can readily access pension information, and receive timely and accurate pension payments
Property and infrastructure
- Advance sustainability, climate resiliency, and the greening of federal real property and infrastructure assets by integrating sustainable development, the use of clean energy, energy reduction, and greenhouse gas reduction into the decision-making, planning and delivery of real property projects
- Build a comprehensive approach that takes into consideration opportunities brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to rethink the workplace and return to the office
- Continue to advance the Laboratories Canada Strategy to provide federal scientists with leading-edge, collaborative, accessible, and sustainable science and technology facilities
- Continue to implement the rehabilitation of the Parliamentary Precinct through the Long Term Vision and Plan
- Continue to maintain and improve crossings in the National Capital Region
Government-wide support
- Continue to adapt to the rapid pace of digital transformation in linguistic services, by experimenting with artificial intelligence and collaborating with other government departments and agencies to increase remote interpretation for official, Indigenous and foreign languages, and video remote interpretation for sign languages
- Support the transition to a digital government to improve the delivery of services and solutions, enhancing the capacity and integration of modern tools and methodologies
Procurement Ombudsman
- Review the procurement practices of federal organizations to promote fairness, openness and transparency
- Review complaints from Canadian suppliers and make recommendations for the improvement of federal procurement practices
Key financial information
Budgetary planning information is as follows, for core responsibilities and internal services combined:
- 2021 to 2022 Main Estimates: $4,491,230,181
- 2022 to 2023 planned spending: $4,368,258,177
- 2023 to 2024 planned spending: $3,404,329,273
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