358.1. No insurance contract, supply contract or contract for the performance of work or the supply of services other than professional services that, under an Act or regulation, may be provided only by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, veterinary surgeon, engineer, land surveyor, architect, chartered professional accountant, advocate or notary and involving an expenditure exceeding $20,000 and less than $100,000 may be awarded except after a call for tenders has been issued and is made by inviting in writing at least two contractors or, as the case may be, two suppliers to tender.
Subject to section 358.1.1, the Regional Government shall not, without the previous authorization of the Minister, award the contract to a person other than the person who has submitted the lowest tender.
For the purposes of this section, a supply contract is defined in the second paragraph of section 358.
1983, c. 57, s. 146; 1997, c. 93, s. 167; 2018, c. 82018, c. 8, s. 25012.