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The head of a union representing almost 60,000 public servants says she has concerns about new outsourcing guidelines introduced by the federal government, arguing that the document is vague and lacks language on limitations.for public service managers who contract out work, including consulting, as the government tries to reduce spending on outsourcing. Managers will now have to consider the guidelines on top of an existing directive on the management of procurement.
However, Jennifer Carr, the president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, says the guide doesn’t go far enough. The guide, Carr said, doesn’t outline explicit outsourcing limits and fails to restrict any kind of use of supply arrangements or standing offers to prevent reliance on external contractors. She said it also failed to address what length of contract was considered “temporary.”
“We hire these new contractors who come in and do the work, but we rely on them because there’s no knowledge-transfer requirements,” Carr said. “The guide merely asks managers to consider it. It doesn’t obligate them to build it into their contract.” Budget 2023 proposed to reduce spending on consulting, professional services and travel by about 15 per cent of planned 2023–24 spending.Anand said Monday that the government continued to look for funds that were being “under-utilized or not utilized.”
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