Moving Forward
Evolving the Office from basic start-up mode to optimum operation and delivery is essential to realizing our mission to promote fairness, openness and transparency in federal procurement. Instrumental to this evolution will be the implementation of the Strategic Plan in the coming year. This plan will be guided by three key strategic drivers, which form the pillars of our organization:
EDUCATE–FACILITATE–INVESTIGATE.
Complementing the development of the Strategic Plan will be a number of initiatives to better position the Office for optimum operation and delivery. These initiatives will include:
- Increased Outreach: The Office can only be effective if it is in tune with the community it was created to serve. This means that the development and implementation of a concerted and sustained outreach program will be instrumental. In the 2011-2012 fiscal year, we will increase our emphasis on the ongoing process of listening to and understanding our stakeholders.
- Independent Evaluation: Our ability to make the necessary adjustments to the nature of our work and organization will be heavily influenced by gaining a better understanding of how we are executing our responsibilities. Accordingly, an independent formative evaluation of our first three years of operation will be conducted.
- Governance: To be truly effective at implementing our mandate, we will review our governance structure, systems and processes to ensure that our "service first" attitude influences and permeates how we do things. This will also embrace all aspects of human resource management, from recruitment and staffing to performance management and succession planning.
Our overarching purpose in launching the above initiatives is to meet the expectations of Parliamentarians and fulfill the mandate they envisioned when the Office began operating in 2008. The Office will serve stakeholders by educating, facilitating and investigating, while recognizing and respecting that the Office is neither a lobbyist for suppliers, nor an apologist for government.
The Office will serve stakeholders by educating, facilitating and investigating, while recognizing and respecting that the Office is neither a lobbyist for suppliers, nor an apologist for government.
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