Letter from Alasdair McKay
TO:
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The Minister of Natural Resources, Ottawa. 08 July 94
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Dear Madame,
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I attach a letter to the Minister of Supply and services
for the province of Nova Scotia, in which I have asked for an
explanation about why a certain contract was let by the N.S.
Department of Natural Resources without public tendering. It is
my understanding that the financing of this contract comes
principally from funds allocated under a Mineral Development
Agreement with your department. If I am correct in assuming that
your department is indeed ultimately responsible for funding this
contract, I feel that I must ask that you too explain why the
contract was let without public tendering, especially in view of
the facts that :
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1. The value of the contract is $70,000.00 (not a small sum).
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2. I had already expressed to staff members of your department, an
interest in doing precisely this type of work (see my letter
to Dr. Prior of AGC, 06 Oct 92 ).
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3. A number of other geoscience companies in Nova Scotia have
appropriate personnel and facilities for carrying out such work
and at least one other had also expressed an interest in it.
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I have asked my member of parliament, Mr. Ron MacDonald to raise
this matter with you, but I am not certain whether he has been
able to do this as yet. Discussions which I have
had
with staff of the Department of Supply and Services (N.S.) quite recently
have made the position more clear than when I last contacted Mr.
MacDonald about the matter.
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I look forward to your reply.
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Yours truly,
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Alasdair McKay
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cc Mr. Ron MacDonald, M.P., Dartmouth
Dr. D. Prior, AGC (via Dr. B. Loncarevic by e_mail)
Dr. D. Kontak, NSDME and Atlantic Geoscience Society
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