12. A supplier may not be awarded contracts totalling more than $25,000 during the same fiscal year, except with the authorization of the Ethics Commissioner.
This section does not apply to the cases referred to in section 6 or paragraph 4, 6, 8 or 9 of section 7 or if each of the contracts was awarded following an invitation to tender or a call for tenders.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, if a contract covers two or more fiscal years, the total amount is taken into account each fiscal year.