5.1.1 It is the responsibility of departments and agencies to ensure that adequate control frameworks for due diligence and effective stewardship of public funds are in place and working. Treasury Board Secretariat works with departments and agencies to address management issues and compliance with Contracting Policies identified through its ongoing relationships with departments, management reviews, evaluations, internal audits and transactions.
5.1.2 All departments and agencies awarding contracts and/or amendments, are required to submit an annual report to the Treasury Board Secretariat on all contracting activities (see Appendix K for details).
5.1.3 Also, as part of the obligations of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement, and the Agreement on Internal Trade, contracting authorities are required to report certain statistics. These statistics are collected from the contract coding information provided by contracting officers on each procurement. Thus, accurate coding of the applicable agreements, goods, services or construction code, tendering method, limited tendering reasons and contract award details is essential to demonstrate the federal government's compliance with the agreements to the other countries or provinces that are parties to the agreement.
5.1.4 Deputy heads are required to publicly disclose quarterly, within one month after the close of each quarter, contracts entered into or amendments valued at over $10,000.