16. Despite section 152.1 of the Charter of the French language (chapter C-11), an agency of the civil administration may, if its mission is compromised, enter into a contract with an enterprise that does not meet the criteria set out in that section(1) where, because of the urgency of a situation, human safety or property is threatened; or
(2) where the enterprise is the only one in a position to provide the good or service and no other enterprise offers an equivalent good or service.