Toronto is alone among Ontario municipalities in restricting bidding on some major construction projects – which lowers competition and raises costs
Renze Nauta is program director for work and economics at the non-partisan think tank Cardus. Andreae Sennyah is Cardus’s director of policy.
says services may be reduced, taxes increased and capital projects cancelled if no action is taken to address the fiscal pressure. Most notable among the measures recommended in the plan is the introduction of a municipal sales tax.is understandable, but revenue is only one part of the city’s balance sheet. Lowering the costs of projects and services is another.
Open tendering is an approach to infrastructure procurement that allows all qualified companies to bid on a government’s construction contracts, regardless of what kinds of trade unions their workers have chosen to join, or whether they have chosen to join them at all. For workers, open tendering means freedom of choice. For the taxpayer, open tendering means more companies can bid for government contracts. More bids mean more competition.
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