The City frequently purchases goods and services from vendors through our online bid opportunities system. Our online system allows businesses to easily search for open, closed and awarded bid opportunities.
Purchasing, GIS, Risk and Asset Management
The team develops and delivers strategy, policy and programs supporting the city’s services and infrastructure. With a focus on financial integrity, the team ensures the responsible stewardship of public funds and oversees a comprehensive approach to risk and asset management planning while telling our stories through inter-active maps utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Purchasing
Our bid / tender opportunities process is one of the many ways we're committed to providing a fair, open and transparent procurement process. Through these posted opportunities, we are ensuring the City obtains the best value for goods and services for our community.
The purchasing by-law outlines the framework that we follow when procuring goods and services.
Third party contractors, consultants and service providers who deal with the public or other third parties on behalf of the City, must comply with the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA"), in particular the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, O. Reg. 429/07 as well as the Integrated Accessibility Standards, O. Reg. 191/11.
In accordance with the requirements of section 6 of the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service and section 7 of the Integrated Accessibility Standard, contractors, consultants and service providers shall ensure that all of their employees, agents, volunteers or others who deal with members of the public or other third parties on behalf of the City, or provide goods, services or facilities on behalf of the City, receive all training about the provision of goods and services provided to people with disabilities.
Purchase Order Terms and Conditions
The City of Owen Sound Purchase Order Terms and Conditions apply unless other terms and conditions have been agreed to through a formal contract or formal purchasing process with the City.
When goods or property the City owns have been declared surplus, we attempt to dispose of them through online auction or by sale by tender. We do this to ensure that surplus is being disposed of in a cost effective and environmentally friendly manner and to provide the general public with the opportunity to obtain surplus goods, in a fair and equitable manner. Where no bids are received, the asset coordinator may dispose of the goods or property as deemed to be in the best interest of the City.
The City of Owen Sound currently has the following items listed (if any).
Risk Management
If you have incurred financial cost for an incident you believe falls under our responsibility, you can make a claim.
However, we strongly urge you to begin by contacting your insurance company or broker. Depending on the type of property damaged, as well as your insurance policy, you may be eligible for greater compensation than you could legally recover from us or another party.
If you choose to make a claim against us, please keep in mind that in some situations, you must place us on notice within 10 days of the incident; and, according to the Municipal Act, we must receive notification in writing.
Please forward your claim to the following address:
Purchasing and Claims Coordinator
Owen Sound City Hall
808 2nd Avenue East
Owen Sound, ON N4K 2H4
Payment with respect to property damage or bodily injury is contingent upon the city being found legally liable for the incident.
Asset Management
We have a diverse inventory of assets that must be in good working order to provide the quality services you expect from us.
Our corporate asset management program helps ensure we are allocating enough funding to sustain our infrastructure assets for the long term and meet service-level expectations.
Our work is guided by our asset management strategy - an ever-evolving framework of practices and policies that focuses on asset maintenance, rehabilitation and replacement needs, and helps us prioritize our work in an open, transparent manner.
The strategy aims to balance the needs and costs for repairing, replacing and upgrading assets with our own financial capability.
Click here to view our 2022 Asset Management Plan.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GIS is a computer based technology that captures, stores, analyzes and manages spatial information. This innovative web-based application allows citizens to easily access a range of geographic data and property based information.
We use geographical information systems (GIS) to connect data with physical spaces. This can be useful for displaying information and telling stories.
Contact Us
808 2nd Avenue East,
Owen Sound, ON
N4K 2H4
Phone: 519-376-1440
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