Could the Quebec tramway project, currently on pause, find itself under the responsibility of the future agency?
Sustainable mobility Quebec should operate with project offices, that is to say that each project under its responsibility will have a team which will work directly with the companies involved in carrying out the work.
The bill which will formalize the creation of this agency is not quite finished, according to our information. Some details could still be changed. The office of the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Geneviève Guilbault, did not wish to comment.
To be truly effective and achieve its objectives of building faster and at lower cost, Sustainable Mobility Quebec will need serious flexibility in the way it manages public transport projects in the province.
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However, Radio-Canada revealed at the end of February that the Treasury Board was resistant to certain requests from Minister Guilbault.
The latter wanted, among other things, that its future agency does not have to respect the Directive on the management of major public infrastructure projects, which governs the way in which projects worth more than $50 million must be carried out in Quebec.
< p class="StyledBodyHtmlParagraph-sc-48221190-4 hnvfyV">However, it appears that common ground is about to be found. Earlier this week, La Presse revealed that a vast reform in the area of public contracts will be tabled in the National Assembly.
The goal: that infrastructure projects can be built 20% to 25% faster and at 15% to 20% lower cost.
In particular, it is envisaged that the Directive on the management of major public infrastructure projects will be relaxed to allow projects to be carried out in collaborative mode, that is to say that the client, the designer and the contractor can work together. from the outset and share the financial risks.
The reform should also lead to changes to the Act respecting contracts by public bodies and the Act respecting public infrastructure.
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