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The Supply Chain Management (SCM) division develops and implements an integrated corporate procurement strategy to: leverage and optimize government procurement of goods and services; identify and implement procurement process improvements; enhance procurement controllership; provide strategic advice to Management Board of Cabinet on large scale procurements; develop innovative policy frameworks to support service delivery through third party service providers.

It is organized into four business lines:

Corporate Procurement Policy and Planning Branch 
  • Advises Treasury Board and Management Board of Cabinet, ministries and applicable agencies about strategic procurement.
  • Develops and advises on the government's corporate procurement policy and framework and implements the government's procurement related trade agreement obligations.
  • Implements consistent operational procurement policy, guidelines, best practices & tools and develops and delivers training for OPS procurement and program staff.
  • Provides controllership & secretariat support to the Supply Chain Leadership Council.
  • Provides procurement advice & guidance to ministries in acquiring goods and services.
  • Implements recommendations from the Doing Business with the Ontario Government Task Force.
Goods and Services Procurement Branch
  • Provides advice & guidance for enterprise-wide procurements and delivers tender administration services to ministries in acquiring goods and services.
  • Develops strategic sourcing solutions to support ministry & corporate business needs.
  • Establishes enterprise-wide vendor of record arrangements (VOR) and manages VOR and client relationships.
Information & Information Technology (I&IT) Procurement Branch
  • Establishes and manages enterprise-wide IT vendor of record arrangements and software volume licensing agreements.
  • Advises OPS and stakeholders about strategic IT procurement.
  • Manages procurement policies for software and large projects in consultation with the Corporate Procurement Policy Branch.  
Supply Chain Management Transformation Branch
  • Leads the supply chain management modernization initiative, including:
  • Development and implementation of effective tools and strategies to assist ministries to achieve the $200M Horizontal Savings Strategy.
  • Implementation of process and organizational changes to streamline processes and increase procurement efficiencies.


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