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Public Works and Government Services

Ministry Summary

Strategic Outcome

Quality Services: Departments and Agencies benefit from a range of efficient government-wide central services.

Program Activity Descriptions

Acquisition Services
Acquire goods and services on behalf of the federal government. Manage the supply process by assisting clients with the requirements definition, bid solicitation and evaluation, contract negotiation and administration and also includes investments in procurement reform and activities associated with Way Forward implementation. Manage all procurement-related aspects of major projects (over $100 million). Regional offices carry out Public Works and Government Services (PWGSC) acquisition activities across Canada. PWGSC also maintains offices in the U.S. and Europe principally to service the needs of the military.

Optional Services Revolving Fund
A financial fund which provides specialized services to client departments such as marine inspection and technical services, management of seized property, travel management, communications procurement, consensus standards and conformity assessment services. Provide disposal services for client departments. Procurement of vaccines and drugs on behalf of provinces and territories.

Defence Production Revolving Fund
Legacy fund presently unused. Maintained to provide for acquisition services of military supplies in the event of emergency.

Federal Accommodation and Holdings
Effective management of real property investment, under the custodianship of PWGSC, in support of the delivery of government programs.

Real Property Services Revolving Fund
The provision, on a fee for service basis, of optional real property services to other custodial departments and to other departments and agencies requesting services over and above those funded by the Federal Accommodation & Holdings Service Line.

Real Property Disposition Revolving Fund
The provision, on a cost-recovery basis, of routine disposals of all Government of Canada real property assets no longer required in order to generate revenue for the Crown.

Information Management (IM)/Information Technology (IT) Services
IM/IT Services provides information management and information technology based solutions to the Government of Canada. It also provides infrastructure, design, and leadership to major government-wide service projects.

Telecommunications Services Revolving Fund
Telecommunications services provides network and infrastructure services, voice telecommunications services, satellite services, and managed services. This activity is the only one currently managed through a fully compensatory client paid Revolving Fund.

Business Integration Services
The Department will deliver directly or facilitate the delivery of integrated services to customer departments and to PWGSC including: management and delivery of the personnel and facility security screening program and the controlled goods program; integration of the delivery of PWGSC's wide range of services when customer departments require an integrated solution for a complex project; management and delivery of the Department's marketing and multimedia services; and, identification and coordination of shared services opportunities. These activities are conducted and managed nationally through our National Capital Area and regional offices.

Translation and Interpretation to Parliament, Conference Interpretation, Terminology
Translation and Interpretation to Parliament, Conference Interpretation, Terminology.

Translation Bureau Revolving Fund
Provision of translation, techno linguistic and other linguistic services to the judiciary and federal departments and agencies on a cost recovery basis. Upon request, provision of translation, techno linguistic and other linguistic services to other governments in Canada and international organizations on a cost recovery basis.

Consulting and Audit Canada Revolving Fund
Provide on an optional and fee-for-service basis, consulting and audit services to federal departments and agencies and upon request, to provincial, territorial, municipal and Aboriginal governments in Canada and to foreign governments and international organizations.

Government Information Services
Management of the Government of Canada's communication platform by providing multi-channel access to information on Government programs and services (via 1 800 O-Canada toll free line, Canada.gc.ca web site and Canada Gazette).

Receiver General Services
Maintain operations for Departmental Financial Management System. Provide optional document-imaging services for departments. Provide optional payment-related printing such as tax information statements and pay statements. Optional services are provided on a cost recovery basis.

Public Service Compensation Services
Communications services for public servants and pensioners using pay/pension payment stub envelopes, and provision of pension services to the Department of National Defense.

Strategic Outcome

Sound Stewardship: Canadians benefit from the application of sound stewardship and oversight in the provision of government-wide central services.

Program Activity Descriptions

Supply Operations Stewardship
Acquisition policy, contract quality assurance, professional development, and vendor performance and review and other management and administrative activities to support program delivery.

Real Property Stewardship
Provision of strategic leadership and proactive management of the resources and real property assets to support the delivery of government programs.

Information Management (IM)/Information Technology (IT) Stewardship
IT Stewardship provides IT standards, architecture, engineering, security, client interface/relationship, branch program management, strategy and governance.

Business Integration Performance Management
The Department will determine customer departments' strategic business needs; gather information on customers' upcoming requirements and communicate it to the business line branches; communicate business line information to our customers to align their service delivery expectations with PWGSC's evolving service delivery capacity; develop the infrastructure to effectively manage the Customer Relationship function; and, from a Departmental perspective measure and monitor customers' perceptions of the value of PWGSC's services and report the results to the business lines so that they can be incorporated into their service planning, development and improvement processes. These activities are conducted and managed nationally through our National Capital Area and regional offices.

Translation Stewardship
Program management, strategy, governance, monitoring and support activities. Also encompasses activities that are necessary to:

• ensure the security of supply of linguistic services to Parliament, the judiciary and the federal government
• foster the development and growth of the Canadian language industry
• ensure the development and dissemination of translation, terminology and techno linguistic standards in Canada
• exercise the role of functional specialist in the translation, terminology, interpretation, linguistic and techno linguistic domains for the other departments and agencies.

Government Information Stewardship
Government Information Stewardship activities provide government-wide strategic management, coordination and monitoring in the areas of advertising, public opinion research, exhibitions, public access to on-line information, publishing, administration of crown copyright and electronic media monitoring. These activities are detailed in the Government of Canada's communications policy and its associated procedures.

Receiver General Stewardship
Maintain high-quality support for the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Accounts of Canada (revenue collection, cash management operations, payment services, Public Accounts, Monthly Statement of Financial Operations, Central Accounts).

Public Service Pay Stewardship
Administration of the government's payroll processes. Development and maintenance of computer systems and national service office infrastructure. Training and advice to departmental compensation advisors. Liaison with compensation advisors, Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) and insurance companies regarding dental insurance plan.

Public Service Pension Stewardship
Administration of the government's pension processes. Development and maintenance of computer systems. Provision of advice and training. Provision of insurance services including liaison with pensioners, insurance companies and occasionally employees. Development of insurance procedural directives and training courses for delivery to the compensation community.

Office of Green Government Operations Stewardship
The OGGO provides advice, functional guidance and leadership to departments on a wide range of activities related to the greening of government operations. It supports TBS in the ongoing development of policy and performance management related to this area, including the development and ongoing refinement of a government-wide performance management framework for greening government operations. It also plans and develops PWGSC's Sustainable Development Strategies, monitors performance, and drafts the Department's annual Sustainable Development Performance Report.

Program by Activities

Notes:
Federal Accommodation and Holdings program activity administers the statutory grant, "Payment in lieu of taxes to Municipalities and other taxing authorities," which amounts to $506,470,280 and is recovered by Public Works and Government Services Canada from custodian departments (see Transfer Payment table).

Business Integration Performance Management program activity figures reflect internal recoveries that cannot be charged to other program activities.

Transfer Payments

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