CAF Procurement

[MilEME09]

That is what I am referring to when I say us policies. The TB didn't restrict those, we did. Both of those policy documents are ours to manage. Military pattern spares is usually not allowed but those should be centrally bought and managed as they generally have rigorous specs attached to them, but for many fleets (green, blue or white) there are lots of LPO items that can (and are) bought via LPO.

my only issue with LPO is sometimes equipment isn't easy to maintain that we buy locally, we encountered an issue recently that the OEM suppliers in Canada for Dewalt don't want to work with DND's payment system (my LPO didn't give details) so we are now waiting on direction from higher on what to do with these generators that we have that are NS, hopefully we can find someone in the US to ship us parts but who knows.

 

[MJP]

my only issue with LPO is sometimes equipment isn't easy to maintain that we buy locally, we encountered an issue recently that the OEM suppliers in Canada for Dewalt don't want to work with DND's payment system (my LPO didn't give details) so we are now waiting on direction from higher on what to do with these generators that we have that are NS, hopefully we can find someone in the US to ship us parts but who knows.

Most LPO is paid via credit card. It is highly unusual to see as business refuse credit card payment, but I suspect there is something else at play.

It is more likely that they don't want to be set up as a vendor and paid for ongoing orders via a contract. While not common, we are a pain to deal with so I can see some vendors refusing to do business in that way.