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Public Works and Government Services

Public Works and Government Services

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Ministry Summary

Vote	(thousands of dollars)	2008-2009	2007-2008	Difference
		Main Estimates	Main Estimates
	Public Works and Government Services
1	Operating expenditures	1,975,859	2,119,081	(143,222)
5	Capital expenditures	290,880	340,210	(49,330)
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	79,745	82,321	(2,576)
(S)	Minister of Public Works and Government Services -
	Salary and motor car allowance	76	75	2
(S)	Translation Bureau Revolving Fund	2,000	. . . . .	2,000
(S)	Defence Production Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Optional Services Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Consulting and Audit Canada Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Payment in lieu of taxes to municipalities and other
	taxing authorities	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Real Property Services Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Telecommunications and Informatics Common
	Services Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
(S)	Real Property Disposition Revolving Fund	(5,500)	(8,000)	2,500
	Total Department	2,343,060	2,533,687	(190,626)
Note: Details in the “Ministry Summary” and “Program by Activities” tables may not add to totals due to rounding.

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Strategic Outcome

Quality Services: Departments and Agencies benefit from a range of efficient government-wide central services.

Program Activity Descriptions

Acquisition Services

This program activity is the government's primary procurement service provider offering federal organizations a broad base of procurement means such as specialized contracts, standing offers, supply arrangements and electronic marketplaces. These services involve military and Major Crown Project procurements as well as specialized services such as marine inspection and technical services, management of seized property, travel management, standards for and certification of goods and services, surplus asset disposal, procurement of vaccines and drugs on behalf of provinces and territories, and the registration of quality (ISO 9000) and environmental (ISO 14001) management services. Acquisition Services also supports the development of professional procurement initiatives such as certification standards for procurement professionals.

Optional Services Revolving Fund

This program activity provides federal organizations with specialized services such as travel services, vaccine procurement, communications procurement and a payment mechanism for taxi invoices.

Defence Production Revolving Fund

Legacy fund presently unused. Maintained to provide for acquisition services of military supplies in the event of emergency.

Federal Accommodation and Holdings

This program activity manages real property assets under the custody of PWGSC on behalf of federal organizations. It provides work environments and facilities that enable federal organizations to deliver programs and services. The real property accommodations and holdings are managed as an investment on behalf of the taxpayer.

Real Property Services Revolving Fund

This program activity provides services on a fee-for-service basis, to federal organizations requesting services beyond those funded by the Federal Accommodation and Holdings program, and on an optional basis for other federal organizations.

Real Property Disposition Revolving Fund

This program activity provides custodial federal organizations with an optional self-funding mechanism for routine disposals of all federal real property assets that are surplus. These services are necessary so that all custodians realize value from surplus properties. The Fund is governed by specific TB Terms and Conditions.

Information Technology Infrastructure Services

This program activity provides leadership in supporting government-wide IT transformation initiatives. It works closely with client federal organizations to understand and respond to their IT requirements, while delivering secure IT services and solutions. IT services include the brokering, developing and/or managing of voice and data networks, data centres, distributed computing, applications, shared access and information management enablers.

Telecommunications and Informatics Common Services Revolving Fund

This program activity provides federal organizations with secure telecommunications and shared network infrastructure, facilities and services through a fully compensatory client-paid Revolving Fund.

Linguistic Services

This program activity provides translation, revision, interpretation, terminology and other linguistic services to enable Parliament to function in both official languages; offers conference interpretation to the judiciary and federal organizations in both official languages or any other languages required; and ensures terminology standardization in the federal public service. It is mandated under the Translation Bureau Act .

Translation Bureau Revolving Fund

This program activity delivers translation, revision, techno linguistic and other linguistic services to the judiciary and federal organizations, and upon request, to the other governments in Canada and international organizations, on a cost-recovery basis. It is mandated under the Translation Bureau Act .

Consulting and Audit Canada Revolving Fund

This program activity provides consulting and audit services to federal organizations and, upon request, to provincial, territorial, municipal and Aboriginal governments in Canada and to foreign governments and international organizations, on an optional and fee-for-service basis.

Information Services

This program activity includes the delivery of a broad range of services to enhance government communications, shared corporate administrative systems and human resource services, and industrial security. Through communication and information products and services, it provides government communications responsive to the diverse information needs of Canadians. Through shared services, it provides centralized support to federal corporate administrative systems as well as consolidated human resource services to small departments. By the management and delivery of security programs, it ensures that government classified and protected information and assets are safeguarded and that controlled goods are protected against unauthorized possession, examination, or transfer while in the custody of private sector companies.

Receiver General Services

This program activity maintains operations for the Departmental Financial Management System, provides optional document-imaging services and bill payment services for federal organizations, and offers optional payment-related printing such as tax information statements and pay statements. Optional services are provided on a cost-recovery basis.

Public Service Compensation Services

This program activity distributes third-party information to public servants and pensioners, and provides pension services to Canadian Forces annuitants.

Greening of Government Operations Services

This program activity delivers a range of services to PWGSC and interdepartmental clients. It directly supports the implementation of the government's environmental and sustainable development objectives by helping it attain social and environmental benefits. The services include the provision of technical support towards pollution prevention and contaminated sites remediation, sustainable building design, environmental assessment, and wastewater management. These services are delivered nationally on an optional, fee-for-service basis.

Strategic Outcome

Sound Stewardship: Canadians benefit from the application of sound stewardship and oversight in the provision of government-wide central services.

Program Activity Descriptions

Acquisition Stewardship

This program activity includes acquisition policy, contract quality assurance, professional development, vendor performance and review, and other management and administrative activities to support program delivery.

Real Property Stewardship

This program activity provides strategic leadership and proactive management of the resources and real property assets to support the delivery of government programs.

Information Technology Infrastructure Stewardship

This program activity provides advice, leadership and reporting on government IT infrastructure activities to federal organizations in a manner that promotes safeguarding information from a whole-of-government perspective.

Business Integration Performance Management

The Department will determine customer departments' strategic business needs; gather information on customers' upcoming requirements and communicate it to the business line branches; communicate business line information to our customers to align their service delivery expectations with PWGSC's evolving service delivery capacity; develop the infrastructure to effectively manage the Customer Relationship function; and, from a Departmental perspective measure and monitor customers' perceptions of the value of PWGSC's services and report the results to the business lines so that they can be incorporated into their service planning, development and improvement processes. These activities are conducted and managed nationally through our National Capital Area and regional offices.

Linguistic Stewardship

This program activity exercises professional authority in the area of language services by taking an active role in establishing both professional and quality assurance standards for translation, interpretation, terminology and technolinguistics services within the government. It helps to ensure and develop the bilingual, Aboriginal and foreign language translation capacity that the Government and Canada requires to support the country's social, economic, international and security-related objectives. It derives its authority from the Translation Bureau Act .

Information Stewardship

This program activity provides advice, coordination and reporting on government communications activities in a manner that promotes, from a whole-of-government perspective, transparency, accountability and compliance with acts and policies.

Receiver General Stewardship

Receiver General Stewardship maintains support for the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the Accounts of Canada (revenue collection, cash management operations, payment services, Public Accounts, monthly statement of financial operations, central accounts).

Public Service Pay Stewardship

This program activity administers the government's payroll processes; develops and maintains computer systems and national service office infrastructure; provides training and advice to departmental compensation advisors; and liaises with compensation advisors, the Treasury Board Secretariat and insurance companies regarding insurance plans.

Public Service Pension Stewardship

This program activity administers the government's pension processes; develops and maintains computer systems; provides advice and training; delivers insurance services; and liaises with pensioners, insurance companies and occasionally employees. It also develops insurance procedural directives and training courses for delivery to the compensation community.

Greening of Government Operations Stewardship

This program activity provides interdepartmental leadership, functional guidance and advice on a range of greening activities. It supports the Treasury Board Secretariat in the ongoing development of greening policy and performance management instruments. It puts in place programs, initiatives, policies, tools and management frameworks that are needed to green PWGSC's services and operations. It also develops PWGSC's sustainable development strategies, monitors performance, and drafts the department's annual Sustainable Development Performance Report.

Program by Activities

(thousands of dollars)		2008-2009 Main Estimates			2007-2008
		Budgetary		Total	Main
	Operating	Capital	Less:		Estimates
			Revenues
			credited
			to the vote
Federal Accommodation and Holdings	1,877,520	284,275	540,668	1,621,127	1,868,462
Acquisition Services	193,393	. . . . .	47,401	145,992	149,314
Information Technology Infrastructure Services	377,752	6,605	249,465	134,892	136,515
Receiver General Stewardship	144,481	. . . . .	13,004	131,477	130,122
Linguistic Services	55,318	. . . . .	. . . . .	55,318	55,718
Greening of Government Operations Services	53,983	. . . . .	. . . . .	53,983	. . . . .
Real Property Stewardship	40,905	. . . . .	1,138	39,767	41,795
Acquisition Stewardship	34,056	. . . . .	1,945	32,111	28,233
Public Service Pay Stewardship	34,815	. . . . .	3,510	31,305	26,628
Public Service Pension Stewardship	121,997	. . . . .	98,349	23,648	17,794
Information Services	54,225	. . . . .	31,014	23,211	25,187
Information Technology Infrastructure Stewardship	22,792	. . . . .	4,104	18,688	13,317
Information Stewardship	18,788	. . . . .	481	18,307	17,485
Receiver General Services	9,255	. . . . .	1,894	7,361	8,617
Business Integration Performance Management	42,682	. . . . .	37,400	5,282	4,407
Linguistic Stewardship	2,432	. . . . .	. . . . .	2,432	2,449
Translation Bureau Revolving Fund	212,729	. . . . .	210,729	2,000	. . . . .
Greening of Government Operations Stewardship	1,776	. . . . .	700	1,076	6,359
Public Service Compensation Services	3,399	. . . . .	2,816	583	1,731
Business Integration Services	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	7,554
Telecommunications and Informatics Common Services
Revolving Fund	197,320	. . . . .	197,320	. . . . .	. . . . .
Consulting and Audit Canada Revolving Fund	48,934	. . . . .	48,934	. . . . .	. . . . .
Real Property Services Revolving Fund	979,921	. . . . .	979,921	. . . . .	. . . . .
Defence Production Revolving Fund	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .
Optional Services Revolving Fund	100,372	. . . . .	100,372	. . . . .	. . . . .
Real Property Disposition Revolving Fund	3,000	. . . . .	8,500	(5,500)	(8,000)
	4,631,845	290,880	2,579,665	2,343,060	2,533,687
Note: Federal Accommodation and Holdings program activity administers the statutory grant, "Payment in lieu of taxes to Municipalities and other taxing
authorities," which amounts to $481,095,253 and is recovered by Public Works and Government Services Canada from custodian departments (see Transfer
Payment table).
Business Integration and Performance Management figures reflect internal recoveries that cannot be charged to other program activities.

Transfer Payments

(dollars)	2008-2009	2007-2008
	Main Estimates	Main Estimates
Grants
(S) Payment in lieu of taxes to Municipalities and other taxing
authorities	481,095,253	506,470,280
(S) Recoveries from custodian departments	(481,095,253)	(506,470,280)
Total	. . . . .	. . . . .

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