Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, July 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
As Ottawa is looking at making significant increases in spending in some areas and looking for cost-saving measures in others, the procurement ombud has made a series of recommendations to change how the federal government acquires goods and services.
“If I wanted to do my job effectively and leave procurement in a better place, I had to stand up and speak the truth, and the truth is the system needs to be overhauled,” Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic said during a press conference in Ottawa on July 8.
