9. The director of material resources is authorized, in the exercise of the director’s powers, duties and functions, to sign(1) supply contracts the amount of which does not exceed $25,000, save where the good concerned is acquired by catalogue from the Centre d’acquisitions gouvernementales or, as the case may be, Infrastructures technologiques Québec in which case the amount of such contracts must not exceed $250,000;
(2) construction contracts the amount of which does not exceed $100,000;
(3) insurance contracts;
(4) services contracts the amount of which does not exceed $100,000, except(a) services contracts where the service provider is a legal person;
(b) services contracts relating to the hiring of a labour relations negotiator or arbitrator, of an expert witness before the court or of a physician or a dentist in matters of medical assessment; and
(c) financial services contracts, banking services contracts or legal services contracts;
(5) contracts of alienation of movable property, subject to the Act respecting the Centre d’acquisitions gouvernementales (chapter C-7.01) and the Règlement sur la disposition des biens meubles excédentaires (chapter C-65.1, r. 7.1); (6) authorizations for out-of-court settlements, with or without consideration, discharges from any personal right, and any act, document or writing relating to those discharges; and
(7) the retention schedule or a modification to the schedule, accompanied by a copy of the classification plan of its records under sections 3 or 4 of the Regulation respecting retention schedules, transfer, deposit and disposal of public archives (chapter A-21.1, r. 2). The maximum limit of the amount of a contract provided for in subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph is set at $10,000 in the following cases:(1) where the service provider is a natural person;
(2) where the object concerned is the supply of personnel.