CANADIAN CONTRACTING POLICY UPDATE
Contracting Policy Notice 2001-3: Update of thresholds for the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
FILE NO: 395-006-000
DATE: December 28, 2001
TO: Functional Heads, Administration/Finance of all Departments and Agencies
SUMMARY
NEW THRESHOLDS FOR PROCUREMENTS SUBJECT TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION _ AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (AGP) AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA) ARE IN EFFECT JANUARY 1,2002, AND ARE VALID UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2003.
BACKGROUND
Every two years, the thresholds in the procurement chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement are updated.
This Notice amends the thresholds in Contracting Policy Notice 1999-9, and provides new thresholds, in Canadian dollars, under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization _ Agreement on Government Procurement for a two-year period, January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003. The threshold for the Agreement on Internal Trade remains unchanged at $25,000 for goods and $100,000 for services and construction.
REVISED THRESHOLDS (IN $CDN)
World Trade Organization _ Agreement on Government Procurement and Canada/Korea Telecommunications Goods Procurement Agreement:
Departments and Agencies
Goods $255,800
Services $255,800
Construction $9,800,000
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North American Free Trade Agreement:
Departments and Agencies
Goods (Can/U.S.) $37,500
Goods (Can/Mexico) $84,400
Services $84,400
Construction $10,900,000
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North American Free Trade Agreement:
Crown Corporations
Goods $422,200
Services $422,200
Construction $13,500,000
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see Federal Procurement Thresholds for the January 2000 - December 2001 thresholds.
ISSN 1492-7187, TRADE POLICY MONITOR, May-June 2002,
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