If you live in Canada’s National Capital Region and provide public relations services as a contractor to the Government of Canada, then you will want to attend the special meeting of the Ottawa/Gatineau Chapter of the Canadian Public Relations Society tonight.

The notice of the meeting provides details:

The Government of Canada has issued a request for industry comments (RFIC) for a draft standing offer that would be issued by Public Works and Government Services Canada that would serve as the basic Standing Offer document for a potential new system where PWGSC would offer all departments access to this master standing offer.

This request for industry comments will be available at the meeting for review. We will be drafting a response, as a society, for the deadline of March 12th.

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To help draft the document, we want to invite our members interested in responding to join us for an evening meeting on Wednesday, March 7th, at 5 p.m. We will be hosting the meeting in the boardroom at Thornley Fallis Communications, and we would welcome all those interested in providing feedback to the process to join us at that time. Please RSVP if possible, but we will welcome anyone who can join us for this session.

WHAT: Special meeting of the chapter membership, CPRS Ottawa-Gatineau WHEN: Wednesday, March 7th, from 5 to 7 p.m. (coffee will be served)

WHERE: Boardroom, Thornley Fallis Communications, Suite 730, 55 Metcalfe St., Ottawa

If you care about the way that the Government of Canada buys public relations services, this is a great chance to be influence the position that will be taken by the local chapter of the CPRS .