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Category: Procurement

Funding / Governance / Procurement

Report: MCFD contract management

The provincial government has released the Ernst & Young review of Ministry of Children and Family Development contract processes with its 6,500 contractors around BC. It’s an eye-opener – and an opportunity for the social services sector to work with …

Funding / Governance / Political Activity / Procurement

Still wondering if non-profit is better?

Once upon a time, all social care belonged to community-based non-profits and charitable organizations, which invented social services as a means of helping citizens in need. Take a look at this Feb. 4 news release from the Office of the …

BC Politics / Procurement / Uncategorized

Multinationals increase hold in BC social care

Unsettling rumours that Victoria-owned GT Hiring was bought by the US multinational Maximus Inc have now been confirmed. This now means that two multinationals have 30 per cent of the provincial funding for employment training in BC, in multi-year contracts …

BC Politics / Procurement

Social services exempt from trade agreements: CCPA

Are our governments’ hands tied by international trade agreements when they put social-care services out to bid? That was a question we really wanted the answer to at Board Voice, as that would be a complicating factor in working toward …

BC Politics / Board Voice Position Statements / Governance / In the Media / Procurement

Charity Village article on procurement – featuring us!

This Charity Village article carries on a conversation that Board Voice has been working very hard to start and keep going, on the risk of governments inadvertently letting social care slip into the hands of multinationals instead of the community …

#Nonprofitsdoitbetter / Board Voice Position Statements / In the Media / Political Activity / Procurement

Radio interview with Board Voice ED on procurement concerns

Board Voice executive director Jody Paterson was interviewed recently by RedEye co-op radio in Vancouver about BC’s procurement process and our concerns that it’s creating a playing field that tips the provision of vital social care services in the province …

In the Media / Political Activity / Procurement

Opinion piece on BC non-profit sector: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone

Here’s our executive director Jody Paterson writing an opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun on just how much is at risk in social care when we neglect to value the non-profit community-based organizations that do this work so well.

By …

BC Politics / Governance / Political Activity / Procurement

WorkBC procurement: Successful proponents, Shane Simpson response

Board Voice continues to have many concerns with the WorkBC procurement process, which led to a fairly significant change in employment-training providers throughout BC as regions went from 73 to 45 and a number of high-performing non-profit providers lost their …

In the Media / Political Activity / Procurement

Board Voice in the news: WorkBC procurement

Board Voice executive director Jody Paterson is featured in this Jan. 31 news story in The Tyee about the many concerns in the non-profit sector over how the procurement process unfolded for WorkBC employment training contracts. Here’s an excerpt:

…Paterson …

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