The Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) reviews procurement practices of federal organizations and provides recommendations for improvement, then conducts follow-up reviews within 2 years to ensure the recommendations have been followed. The information in this dataset records the number of recommendations that were implemented.
Paragraph 22.1(3)(a) of the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act provides the Procurement Ombud with the authority to review the procurement practices of federal organizations. The Procurement Ombud conducts follow-up reviews within 2 years of the initial recommendation to measure the progress made in response to their recommendations. The purpose of follow-up exercises is to determine whether the federal organization considered, took action or developed plans in response to the Procurement Ombud’s recommendations made in their reports.
NOTE: The measure Recommendations-Implemented_Recommandations-implimentés is based on the results of the follow-up reviews, so this measure is left blank where reviews are still outstanding.