3. Requisites for PWGSC Business with CORCAN
a. PWGSC must maintain good customer and supplier relations. Therefore, in allocating business to CORCAN, PWGSC will consider the impact on customer departments and on Canadian suppliers likely to be affected, particularly small business.
b. PWGSC recognizes that CORCAN has the mandate to provide employment and training to federal offenders in order to give offenders the skills and attitudes they will need when they return to society and become productive employees. CORCAN does this by marketing the products and services produced by federal offenders.
c. PWGSC recognizes that the department should assist CORCAN with the promotion of CORCAN products.
d. CORCAN recognizes that it is the one primarily responsible for marketing its products.
e. Once business has been accepted, CORCAN must undertake to fulfill its obligations to PWGSC.
f. For all business allocated by PWGSC to CORCAN, the quality standards and delivery performance must be comparable to those which PWGSC would have demanded and received from private sector suppliers.