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Contract Scrapped for Yellowknife Company's Involvement in Francophone School

Tuesday, 25 September 2018 17:15

The francophone school will be built in Riverdale (Photo courtesy of the Riverdale Community Association)

The project will now go to a tender and will invite only local Yukon bidders to submit proposals.

The Yukon government has scrapped a contract worth $904,000 after concerns the money went to a Yellowknife firm as opposed to a Yukon one.

The investment was around the constructions and planning of a francophone high school in Whitehorse, which was confirmed in April through a standing offer agreement.

Minister of Highways and Public Works Richard Mostyn highlighted why the reversal was made.

"The reason why we're doing that is that issuing an outstanding offer to an outside firm for $900,000 worth of work did not align with this government's commitments and goals and a contract of that size should've gone through a more competitive bidding process."

The project will now go to a tender and invite local Yukon bidders to submit proposals.

 Mostyn also highlighted what the department is doing to keep awarded contracts in the Territory.

"We have a five-year capital plan...we've moved to more value-driven contracts, we've added local-knowledge provisions to our contracting, we've used the ten one-million dollar exceptions... we're going to use one of those exceptions in this third-phase of this project on the french school"

While part of the project has already commenced, the remaining portion of the contract to be awarded is between $650,00-750,000.

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