Bidding and Tendering in the Public Sector 2012

Workshop Included: Legal limits & restraints on bid-rigging

Participating Organizations:

• Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

• Cancer Care Ontario

• Competition Bureau Canada

• Ernst & Young LLP

• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

• Lakeridge Health and Rouge Valley Health System

• McCarthy Tétrault LLP

• McLauchlin & Associates

• Ministry of the Attorney General

• Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

• PPI Consulting

Highlights:

• Learn about the implications for exclusion clauses and future preparation and analysis of tender documents

• Effective management of bidding and tendering to achieve value for money in the public sector

• Conducting a procurement capability assessment

• Developing flexible bidding and tendering documents

• View from the Competition Bureau: Canadian competition law - legal limits & restraints on bid-rigging

• Preparing bidding documents: reducing potential for disputes in procurement contracts

• Insights from the Ministry of the Attorney General: bid-rigging investigations and remedies

who should attend

Directors & Managers of public works, procurement, risk management, investi-

gations, internal audit, fi nance; Fraud Examiners; Controllers, Senior Counsel; Investigators; Forensic Accountants