Traduction de «Consortium pour des livres accessibles » (Français → Anglais) :

The Commission will continue the review of European standardisation policy by following up on its White Paper "Modernising ICT standardisation in the EU". and the related public consultation.Reflecting the rise and growing importance of ICT standards developed by certain global fora and consortia one important aim is to allow their use in legislation and public procurement.

In order to better promote all the arts, we also need more critical writing about independent and local art in magazines and books that are accessible to the public.

(Return tabled) Question No. 88 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: With regard to the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Canadian Firearms Registration System (CFRS) Alternate Services Delivery (ASD) contract that was eventually awarded to Team Centra (a consortium of CGI Group and BDP Business Data Services Limited) in 2002: (a) were bidders required to agree to pay a penalty of $30,000 per day for every day their system was not implemented after the Service Effective Date (SED) to defray costs of paying two vendors, E.D.S. of Canada Ltd (EDS) and Team Centra, at the same time and, if so, was this clause or a similar penalty clause carried forward ...[+++]into the contractual agreement between Team Centra and the Crown; (b) what was the official Contract Notification Date (CND) as required by the RFP; (c) what was the exact contracted SED; (d) in accordance with the RFP requirement, how much has Team Centra paid to the Crown based on the contracted SED; (e) how much has the Crown paid to EDS, Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP since the original SED of the ASD contract with Team Centra; (f) what deliverables were provided by EDS in return for these payments; (g) what deliverables were provided by Team Centra in return for these payments; (h) is the anticipated overlap of the two systems (CFRS I and CFRS II) still in accordance with the requirement in the RFP; (i) was the intent of the RFP to ensure no payment was made to the “Systems Integrator” until the system was delivered and, if so, when was the system delivered and what was the ongoing monthly charge to the Crown from Team Centra, CGI Group and BDP and what was the purpose of these charges; (j) has the user acceptance testing taken place on the Team Centra Application Code; (k) what was the value of the EDS Change Request to incorporate Bill C-10A amendments into the CFRS I system and why was this request needed; (l) what is the estimated dollar value and revised end date for the contracts currently under review with Team ...

The aircraft, the Raytheon Harvard II and the British Aerospace Hawk are not on the books of the Government of Canada because they were bought by the private sector consortium.

The Green Paper can be found on the Internet at: [http ...]

Senator Fairbairn: Honourable senators, as my honourable friend knows, when the Minister of Finance made his statement, he made a considerable move in the direction of making books and the price of books more accessible to a great many people in Canada through increasing the rebate for books in libraries, colleges, universities, school boards, literacy organizations and, of course, public libraries.