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DATE: December 3, 2003

SUBJECT: Contracting Policy Notice 2003-6 - Update of thresholds for the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Summary

NEW THRESHOLDS FOR PROCUREMENTS SUBJECT TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION - AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (AGP) AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA) ARE IN EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2004, AND ARE VALID UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2005.

Background

Every two years, the thresholds in the procurement chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement are updated.

This Notice amends the thresholds in Contracting Policy Notice 2001-3, and provides new thresholds, in Canadian dollars, under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement for a two-year period, January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2005. The threshold for the Agreement on Internal Trade remains unchanged at $25,000 for goods and $100,000 for services and construction.

Revised Thresholds (in $CDN)

World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement and Canada/Korea Telecommunications Goods Procurement Agreement:

Departments and Agencies

Goods

$261,300

Services

$261,300

Construction

$10,000,000

North American Free Trade Agreement:

Departments and Agencies

Goods (Can/U.S.)

$38,000

Goods (Can/Mex)

$89,000

Services

$89,000

Construction

$11,500,000

North American Free Trade Agreement:

Crown Corporations

Goods

$445,000

Services

$445,000

Construction

$14,200,000

Contracting Policy

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Enquiries

For further information please contact: Treasury Board Secretariat at (613) 957 -2487 or by fax at (613) 952-1381.

Jane Cochran
Executive Director
Procurement and Project Management Policy Directorate

Distribution: TB06, TB07, TB21, TB22, TB23, T022, T024, & T161