The library is defying an order by Canada\’s International Trade Tribunal to abandon a contract which gives Microsoft a near-monopoly over the Parliament\’s computer services:
The tribunal, which functions as a procurement watchdog for government suppliers, ruled the library broke the government\’s own procurement rules and a trade agreement in a tender for an electronic news monitoring service for the 750 MPs, Senators and their staff served by the library. It concluded the library was discriminatory in favouring software giant Microsoft Corp.\’s products and ordered the library to amend the tender or issue a new one.
But in a rare move, the library is refusing to implement the order because it claims to have exhausted its budget for the new monitoring service in legal costs to defend itself before the tribunal. . .
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