In addition to being the official supplier to all Quebec school boards and several private schools and post-secondary institutions, GRICS enables some companies to benefit from tools developed to meet their specific needs. Every year, two million Quebecers trust us to simplify their work, enable them to communicate better and increase their productivity.
GRICS software solutions are developed in collaboration with users to ensure that they meet the real needs of students, parents, teachers and administrative staff. Since our mission is to be a trusted information technology partner, we ensure that our users are consulted and involved at every stage in the development of a product. Moreover, school boards in every region of Quebec are represented on our board of directors.
GRICS has been offering you high quality products for more than 35 years. Today, we simplify your life with flexible, integrated, mobile and user-friendly cloud computing solutions. They help you save time and avoid duplicate work.
Interim Chair of the Board and representative of the FCSSQ
Caroline Dupré
Director General, CS de Saint-Hyacinthe
Interim Executive Vice-President
Nancy Lapointe
Director General, CSS des Samares
Representative of the QUESBA
David Chisholm
Director of Labour Relations of the Quebec English School Boards Association
Bas-Saint-Laurent – Gaspésie – Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Nancy Prévéreault
Director General, CSS des Phares
Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean
Marc-Pascal Harvey
Director General, CSS du Lac-Saint-Jean
Capitale-Nationale – Chaudière-Appalaches
Suzie Lucas
Director General, CSS des Navigateurs
Mauricie – Centre-du-Québec
Denis Lemaire
Director General, CSS de l’Énergie
Estrie
Patrick Guillemette
Administration Deputy Director General, CSS de la Région-de-Sherbrooke
Laval – Laurentides – Lanaudière
Nancy Lapointe
Director General, CSS des Samares
Montérégie
Annie De Noury
Deputy Director General, CSS des Patriotes
Montréal
Jean Ouimet
Deputy Director General, Educational Services and Information Technology
Outaouais
Guy Bélair
Deputy Director General and Director IT resources, customer and transportation, CSS des Draveurs
Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec
Éric Larivière
Director General, CSS du Lac-Témiscamingue
Côte-Nord
Richard Poirier
Director General, CSS du Fer
GRICS Representative
Me Sébastien Gougeon
Chief Executive Officer (non-voting)
GRICS Representative
Bruno-Paul Latortue
Secretary General and Vice-President, Network Relations and Organizational Performance, Interim Vice-President, School Management Solutions (non-voting)
MEES Observer
Stéphane Lehoux
Assistant Deputy Minister (non-voting)
Me Sébastien Gougeon
Chief Executive Officer
Bruno-Paul Latortue
Secretary General and Vice-President, Network Relations and Organizational Performance, Interim Vice-President, School Management Solutions
Edouard Staco
Vice-President, Administrative Management and Educational Solutions
Guillaume Trottier
Vice-President, Data Valuation and Integration Solutions
Line Girard
Vice-President, Talent and Culture, Finance, Legal and Contractual Matters
René Guitar
Vice-President, Architecture, Security and Operations
As of January 25, 2019, GRICS is subject to the Act respecting contracting by public bodies and the regulations thereunder pursuant to section 6.1 of that Act.
Publication of invitations to tender, contracts awarded and other notices
GRICS notices, tender documents and adjudications, if any, are only posted on the site of the Système électronique d’appel d’offres (SEAO), which brings together the various public procurement notices. Suppliers interested in public procurement may consult the published notices and obtain the related documents.
Complaints related to the awarding of a contract
An interested company or a group of companies interested in participating in the tendering process or their representative may file a complaint with GRICS regarding a public call for tenders involving an expenditure equal to or greater than the applicable minimum public tender threshold if the documents of that call for tenders or an amendment to those documents :
It can also complain about entering into a private contract if, after publication of a notice of intention in the SEAO, it has expressed an interest in carrying out the contract.
It may also complain about the process of awarding or granting a government contract other than those mentioned above.
You can consult the GRICS procedure for receiving and handling complaints in this regard.
For more information on the AMP, please visit the File a complaint concerning a public contract section of their website.
To lodge a complaint, you must use the official form of the Autorité des marchés publics (AMP) which can be found at the following address https://amp.quebec/en/file-complaint/complaint-public-body/ and send it by e-mail to the following address approvisionnement@grics.ca. Everything must be sent to the attention of the person designated in the procedure no later than the deadline for the submission of complaints indicated in the call for tenders or in the above-mentioned procedure for other cases.
The notices, tender documents and GRICS awards, if applicable, are published on the website of the “Système électronique d’appel d’offres” (SEAO), which brings together the various public procurement notices. The suppliers interested in public procurement can consult published notices and obtain related documents.
