The British Columbia Construction Association (BCCA) has officially published a 14-page review of industry concerns, providing practical recommendations to improve the planning, implementation and operation of assets in B.C.’s public sector.

The paper, Fair and Transparent: Implementing the CAMF for Construction Procurement, stresses the need for partnership and outlines the struggle to successfully establish reasonable standards for government, Crown corporations and publicly-funded agencies’ use in capital asset planning.

The BCCA’s recommendations for public procurement policy include:

• Facilitating a variety of procurement approaches, instead of favouring a single approach;
• Ensuring qualification criteria are actually relevant to the bidder’s ability to deliver
• the service;
• Requiring disclosure of public procurement results;
• Requiring audits with published results;
• Ensuring entities such as Shared Services and Partnerships BC do not compete with the private sector; and
• Creating formal mechanisms for ongoing collaboration between industry and government in regard to procurement practices.