358.4. The Minister may, on the conditions he determines, authorize the Regional Government to award a contract without calling for tenders, authorize the Regional Government to award a contract after calling for tenders by written invitation rather than by publication in a newspaper, or authorize the Regional Government to award a contract to the winner of a design competition it holds. The Minister may, on the Minister’s own initiative, exercise that power for a contract or any class of contracts.
The first paragraph does not apply where calls for tenders are required to be public under an intergovernmental trade liberalization agreement applicable to the Regional Government.
1997, c. 93, s. 170; 2000, c. 19, s. 35; 2010, c. 18, s. 99.