What Happens to My Feedback

Your feedback will be used to further define a technology solution, allowing for the development of a business case to articulate the potential value of this technology. If government decides to go to market for this technology, the solution would be rolled out in a phased approach, sourcing first, followed by spend analytics, contract management and evaluation.

The source to contract project is intended to create a single, integrated and transparent system to manage the full range of public sector purchasing valued at more than $6 billion a year. In the process, it would advance a number of the Province’s strategic objectives, including open government, business innovation, citizen participation, and sound fiscal management. A new S2C eSourcing solution would enable the use of contemporary browsers, security and mobile devices.

A summary of the feedback collected will be posted on this site.

Moderation Policy

This BC Bid consultationwebsite features a public discussion forumthat welcomes candid dialogue and diverse views on the topic. We welcome your participation in the discussion and look forward to an active exchange of information and ideas.

Comments will be pre-moderated and published in accordance with this Moderation Policy and the Terms of Use.

We want to publish your comments, but we expect conversations to follow the conventions of polite discourse. Therefore, we won’t post comments that, in our opinion, are objectionable or inappropriate, including comments that:

  1. are defamatory, threatening, hateful, indecent, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit;
  2. makes unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations;
  3. potentially or actually infringe any third party’s copyright, trademark, right of privacy, publicity or any other intellectual property or other right;
  4. contain information about or images (i.e., photographs, video, or illustrations) of any person other than yourself;
  5. advertise a product, person or organization;
  6. contain long embedded URLs, excessive links, code, or other material that could compromise the integrity or security of the Discussion Forum, or of the website or server on which the Discussion Forum resides; or
  7. are far off-topic.

Media Inquiries

Media inquiries will not be posted. Reporters are asked to send questions through their regular channels.

Hours of Operation

Your comments are welcome at any time – subject to unforeseen circumstances such as power outages and system failures, the discussion forumis expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, given the need to manage provincial resources, your comments may not be posted immediately. Moderating and posting of comments will generally occur during regular business hours Monday through Friday. Comments submitted after hours or on weekends or holidays will be read and posted as soon as possible during regular business hours.

Freedom of Information Requests

Since most government information, including the contents of this forum, may be the subject of a freedom of information request, it is possible that some or all of the information you submit will be disclosed publically under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (British Columbia). Please consider this when commenting. To protect your privacy, please do not include your phone number or e-mail address in the body of your comment.

If you have an inquiry of a personal nature, if you have questions about this Moderation Policy or how we apply it, please contact usplease contact us

Terms of Use

Your Agreement
These Terms of Use constitute an agreement between you and the Province of British Columbia, represented by the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services (the “Province”) with respect to your use of the BC Bid consultationwebsite(the “Discussion Forum”). By accepting these Terms of Use, you are deemed to have read and agreed to the terms and conditions set out below.

Required Age to Contribute
To contribute to theBC Bid consultationwebsiteand accept these Terms of Use, you must be, and you represent and warrant that you are, at least 19 years of age. If you are under 19, you must first obtain the consent of your parent or legal guardian, in which case your legal parent or guardian must accept the Terms of Use on your behalf, and must be responsible for your use of the Hub.

Submission and Review of Content
Questions, comments, ideas and other contributions to the BC Bid consultationwebsite (collectively, the “Content”) will be read and moderated in accordance with the Moderation Policy before they are published.

The Province reserves the right to edit, refuse to post or delete Content that the Province deems, in its absolute discretion, to be objectionable or inappropriate, including without limitation Content that: (a) is defamatory, threatening, hateful, indecent, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit; (b) makes unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations; (c) potentially or actually infringes any third party’s copyright, trademark, right of privacy, publicity or any other intellectual property or other right; (d) contains information about or images of any person other than yourself; (e) advertises a product, person or organization; (f) contains material that could compromise the integrity or security of the Hub, or of the website or server on which this Hubresides; or (g) is far off-topic.

If you are concerned about inappropriate content please e-mail citing the date and author of the content in question.

Ownership and License
You retain ownership of all Content you submit to theBC Bid consultationwebsite(“Your Content”). You represent and warrant that: (a) Your Content is your original work, or has been provided to you or obtained by you from the rightful owner with all necessary permissions; and (b) Your Content does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity.

By submitting Your Content to the BC Bid consultationwebsite, and in consideration of the opportunity to participate in the BC Bid consultationwebsite and other valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of which you hereby acknowledge), you hereby grant to the Province a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, publish, communicate to the public by telecommunication, modify, display and distribute Your Content in any and all formats for any and all purposes associated with the Hub. You agree that the Province may engage independent contractors and service providers to assist the Province to exercise the rights you grant to the Province under these Terms of Use.

Permission to Use Contributions
You agree that the Province may reformat, rearrange or otherwise modify Your Content, and you understand and agree that the Province has no obligation to acknowledge you by name or pseudonym as the author of Your Content or to ensure that you remain anonymous.

With the exception of Your Content and Content submitted to theBC Bid consultationwebsiteby other contributors, all intellectual property in the Discussion Forum, including but not limited to copyright, official marks and trademarks, is owned by the Province. Copying or unauthorized use of any such intellectual property without the express written consent of the Province is prohibited.

Use of any material from or links to third party websites must be in accordance with these Terms of Use. The Province does not control such third party websites and is not responsible for their contents. The inclusion of hyperlinks to such third party websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with these third parties.

Collection of Personal Information
In order to hear your thoughts on the BC Bid consultationwebsite, and to facilitate discussion with other users of the BC Bid consultationwebsite, the Strategic Partnerships Office, is collecting personal information from you. In addition to your name and your opinions, we are collecting:

Your e-mail address, which may be used to contact you for clarification of your comment(s), to notify you of future opportunities to participate in public consultations, and to keep you updated on the progress of our initiatives and
the details of your visit to the website on which the BC Bid consultationwebsite resides (the “Website”) such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and your acceptance of the Terms of Use. This information will be used for the purpose of administering the Website.
The authority to collect personal information comes from Section 26(c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. If you have any questions about the collection of your personal information, please visit and/or contact us at .

Access and Disclosure
By accepting the Terms of Use, you consent to the Province’s use of your personal information for the purposes outlined above. You also consent to the public disclosure and access in or outside of Canada of your name, your Contributions, and the date/time of your submission, for the purpose of participating in the Hub.

If you think that your personal information has been improperly disclosed on the Website, please notify us immediately by e-mail at . Please include the date and author of the content in question in any such e-mail.

Disclaimer, Limitation of Liability and Indemnity
The BC Bid consultationwebsiteand all of the information it contains are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. All implied warranties, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, are hereby expressly disclaimed.

You agree that under no circumstances will the Province or any of its respective servants, employees or agents be liable to any person or entity for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other damages based on: (a) use of any of Your Content under these Terms of Use; (b) any use by you of the the Hub; or (c) any failure by you to abide by these Terms of Use.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Province and all of its respective servants, employees and agents from and against all claims, demands, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable legal fees) arising from: (a) your use of the Hub; (b) your violation of any provision of these Terms of Use; (c) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any claims or action based on infringement or violation of intellectual property rights, libel or slander or other defamation, rights of privacy or rights of publicity; and (d) any claim that any of Your Content caused damage to a third party.

General
These Terms of Use also incorporate the contents of the Province’s Disclaimer and Privacy notices linked at the bottom of the page. You agree to read the contents of these links carefully.

If any term or provision of these Terms of Use is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, all other terms and provisions of these Terms of Use will nonetheless remain in full force and effect.

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of British Columbia.