September 23rd, 2025
Public contract debarment: AMP can’t throw reformable companies out with the bathwater
In a rare decision unfavourable to the Autorité des marchés publics (AMP), the Québec Superior Court annulled a contractor’s registration in the Register of Enterprises Ineligible for Public Contracts (RENA), finding the AMP had not sufficiently assessed the opportunity to impose corrective measures before resorting to the ultimate sanction, namely, ineligibility for public contracts.