In October 2024, the Southeast Alberta Chamber of Commerce profiled our work with the Supply Chain department with the City of Medicine Hat over the last 5 years around some of the concerns expressed by our members related to procurement and purchasing, which can be viewed online here.

In March 2025, the City provided an information brief with the 2024 Supply Chain Annual Report.

The 2024 Supply Chain Annual Report provides a high-level summary of Procurement, City Stores and Accounts Payable, which are the three areas of Supply Chain at the City. The report describes the different procurement methods that are used at the City, it provides highlights of the open competitions conducted through the year as well as three-year comparative information of purchase order types and values, accounts payable types and values, and an overview of the inventory managed under Supply Chain. The report also provides a summary of the accomplishments achieved in Supply Chain during 2024 as well as a preview of the new goals and targets set for 2025.

The presentation highlights 112 open competition contracts awarded in 2024, with a total contract value of $60.7M, of which $32.9M were regional and another $7.9M provincial.

Some of the accomplishments highlighted included:

• Procurement bylaw review and changes to delegate contract signatures to the Administration, taking the timelines from an average 15 days turnover to 3 days.
• Continued efforts to maintain and establish Citywide contracts. Currently there are 32 different categories of contracts available with 60 different suppliers.
• Procurement 101 training and basic procurement manual for employees with a completion rate in the training of over 86%

We are also pleased to see the commitment to continued dialogue with the Southeast Alberta Chamber of Commerce and Construction Association! 

If you haven't yet had a chance to check out the website that the City and Procurement Department development in consultation with our business associations, you can check it out here: www.medicinehat.ca/procurement