The B.C. Procurement Strategy Update 2020 outlines work the Province has been doing – in collaboration with businesses and communities, as well as Indigenous peoples – to modernize its procurement system. 

Key highlights in the update include:

• advancing the Indigenous Procurement Initiative by completing a provincewide consultation and releasing the “Report on What We Heard,” which reflects feedback from more than 300 Indigenous partners and businesses;
• launching the Procurement Concierge, a collaborative way for vendors to engage with government and suggest innovative solutions to government’s business challenges;
• starting user testing on the new BC Bid system, which will modernize and streamline how companies access and respond to government procurement opportunities;
• issuing 86 contracts to dozens of small- to medium-sized tech companies through the new Sprint With Us and Code With Us programs; and
• introducing other priority initiatives underway to improve procurement processes in the social services and agricultural sectors, such as Feed BC.

The Province launched B.C.’s first-ever procurement strategy in June 2018 to take full advantage of its buying power to drive economic growth, create well-paying jobs and harness made-in-B.C. innovation.

The plan is guided by four main goals:

• To realize best value and increased benefit to British Columbians.
• To make it easier to do business with government.
• To create more opportunity for businesses of all sizes.
• To build greater capacity for procurement in the B.C. Public Service.

Learn More:

BC Procurement Strategy overview: https://gov.bc.ca/procurementstrategy

Procurement Strategy Update 2020: http://news.gov.bc.ca/files/Procurement-Strategy-2020.pdf

Indigenous Procurement Initiative: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/IndigenousProcurementInitiative

Procurement Concierge Program: https://procurementconcierge.gov.bc.ca

Sprint With Us: https://bcdevexchange.org/sprintwithus

Code With Us: https://bcdevexchange.org/codewithus

BC Bid: https://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca