Translation of "soumission concurrentielle " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 105 Mr. Frank Valeriote: With regard to the purchase of 65 F-35(A) fighter jets for future use in the Canadian Forces: (a) when and on how many occasions did the Department of National Defence (DND) submit a justification for “the legal authority to use an exception to competitive bidding”, as is required in section 3.15[a] of the Treasury Board Guideline; and (b) for each submission, referenced in the government’s response to part (a) of this question, that utilized the exception to competitive bidding found under section 3.15[a][iv] of the Treasury Board Guidelines, what justification is provided that woul ...[+++]d allow the government and DND to consider the F-35(A) as the only aircraft capable of meeting all of the department’s high-level mandatory requirements for this procurement project despite the department’s knowledge that the F-35(A) cannot meet the mandatory requirement pertaining to air-to-air refuelling?

With regard to these 6 the evidence submitted in this respect showed that the tenders were not competitive as there was only one offer/bid and the price was set by the authorities.

12. ‘cartel’ means an agreement and/or concerted practice between two or more competitors aimed at coordinating their competitive behaviour on the market and/or influencing the relevant parameters of competition, through practices such as the fixing or coordination of purchase or selling prices or other trading conditions, the allocation of production or sales quotas, the sharing of markets and customers, including bid-rigging, restrictions of imports or exports and/or anti-competitive actions against other competitors;

In the opinion of Ryanair, the process that led to the selection of Lufthansa as the buyer was not competitive, the deadline for the submission of bids was extremely short (from 13 to 24 August 2008) and Lufthansa, which had prior knowledge of Austrian Airlines’ operations through its participation in the Star Alliance and in joint ventures, had an advantage over other possible buyers.

Cartels are agreements and/or concerted practices between two or more competitors aimed at coordinating their competitive behaviour on the market and/or influencing the relevant parameters of competition through practices such as the fixing of purchase or selling prices or other trading conditions, the allocation of production or sales quotas, the sharing of markets including bid-rigging, restrictions of imports or exports and/or anti-competitive actions against other competitors.

Mr. Vaasjo: Actually, the hybrid system exists to a degree in both Ontario and British Columbia, whereby new generation is basically coming from independent power producers like ourselves on a competitive bid basis, the difference being here we bid in every hour for the price of power, whereas there, the competition is for long-term power purchase arrangements, which then form part of the cost base of the utilities in those respective provinces.