Public Services and Procurement Canada
Gender-based analysis plus: 2020 to 2021 Departmental Plan

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Governance structures

In 2019 to 2020, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) further reinforced its gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) governance structures. The department launched an internal GBA+ website to increase awareness about GBA+ requirements, provide tools to help PSPC personnel conduct GBA+, and connect the department with its GBA+ centre of expertise.

In 2020 to 2021, PSPC will be developing a more comprehensive GBA+ strategy for the department, including GBA+ training opportunities.

PSPC will also be working to set up a new GBA+ community of practice to leverage best practices from across the department and to ensure consistent and robust implementation of GBA+.

Finally, the department will explore ways to improve the availability of data and research in support of GBA+ at PSPC.

The department's current GBA+ action plan includes 4 broad objectives: to determine PSPC's GBA+ centre of expertise governance and engagement within PSPC; to ensure that PSPC is compliant with federal government policies and programs; to increase GBA+ awareness within PSPC; to increase GBA+ capacity within PSPC; and, to monitor and measure GBA+ mainstreaming at PSPC.

PSPC has 2 GBA+ champions, one at the assistant deputy minister level and another at the regional director general level.

Human resources

There is approximately 1.75 full-time equivalent (FTE) dedicated to GBA+ at PSPC:

In 2020 to 2021, PSPC will continue the work on increasing capacity and awareness of GBA+.

Planned initiatives

Purchase of goods and services

In 2020 to 2021, PSPC will work with Indigenous Services Canada and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat to create more opportunities for Indigenous businesses to succeed and grow by creating a new target to have at least 5 % of federal contracts awarded to businesses managed and led by Indigenous peoples.

The department will also take further steps to increase the diversity of bidders and the participation of small- and medium-sized businesses owned by under-represented groups in federal procurement. This will include increased outreach to industry, such as the expansion of strategic partnerships. PSPC will also continue to develop inclusive procurement strategies including experimentation with socio-economic objectives in procurements. PSPC will work with the minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion to develop a proposal for government suppliers to participate in the new Canadian apprenticeship service, which will link the new service with the federal procurement system, including setting targets for construction contracts.

Working to increase the participation of businesses owned by under-represented groups in government procurement could be expected to help advance equal and full participation in the economy. Improvements will be measured and tracked to monitor performance.

Property and infrastructure

PSPC will continue conducting technical accessibility assessments on its nationwide Crown-owned and lease purchase portfolio. As a result of these assessments, PSPC will identify accessibility improvements to bring base building elements in conformity with the 2018 Accessibility Standard and address new legislative requirements under the Accessible Canada Act. PSPC will also identify incremental improvements to go above and beyond requirements.

PSPC is making the Parliamentary Precinct a model and leader in the development of accessible environments by making the site and buildings more accessible, family-friendly and open to the public. It will achieve, and in some cases exceed, accessibility standards set by the Canadian Standards Association in rehabilitated heritage buildings.

To monitor results in 2020 to 2021, the department will measure the percentage of PSPC-owned and lease purchase buildings that provide features to support accessibility in the built environment.

PSPC will also continue to explore options and/or develop and deploy strategies to provide Indigenous organizations, women business owners and/or other underrepresented groups with greater access to opportunities to participate in and/or submit proposals in response to Real Property solicitations. A gender-based assessment will be completed for all new real property mechanisms and future real property contracts will include provisions designed to encourage successful proponents to provide increased accessibility to procurement opportunities to businesses owned by women and other underrepresented groups.

Government-wide support

To ensure deaf and hard of hearing Canadians can access government services through sign language interpretation and closed captioning, the Translation Bureau will implement a video remote interpretation solution for sign language for government employees and public-facing departments. It will improve real-time translation services for all departments and continue to build capacity in live sign language interpretation services by increasing the pool of suppliers.

Moreover, to ensure that parliamentarians and the public service can avail themselves of translation and interpretation services in Indigenous languages, enhancing visibility and positively impacting the status and future vitality of Indigenous languages in Canada, the Translation Bureau will build capacity in Indigenous languages through ongoing community outreach and partnerships.

Measures to increase the capacity of the Translation Bureau to provide sign language interpretation and closed captioning and additional services in Indigenous languages can be expected to support efforts to achieve the Gender Results Framework goal of leadership and democratic participation. These measures may eventually contribute to greater representation of underrepresented groups in elected office, ministerial positions in national and sub-national governments and politics in general.

Reporting capacity and data

Many PSPC programs provide services to the government, and not to individual Canadians or Canadian corporations.

The Federal Pay Administration Program provides pay system and services for Government of Canada employees. While there are no plans for the Federal Pay Administration Program to collect additional data in the future for GBA+ purposes, the program owns the case management tool, a database that contains recipient information on active cases in the Pay Centre queue (such as age, first official language and gender). This database is queried on an ad hoc basis to produce GBA+, as required (such as in the development of policy documents).

Under the purchase of goods and services core responsibility, data will be collected on suppliers in support of efforts to increase the participation of under-represented groups in federal procurement. Data has also been collected from Statistics Canada to undertake gender analysis as part of the socio-economic procurement experimental cycle. This data will be used to identify and test innovative approaches, including socio-economic objectives in procurement. The following data have been collected so far:

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