B.C.-based water bottle company looks to bid on health services contract [Video]

Last Thursday Global News reported how the province was planning to buy 5,000 Yeti water bottles for paramedics, costing up to $80 each.

BC Emergency Health Services posted the invitation to quote on the BC Bid website.

Yeti is based in Texas and only days earlier Premier David Eby said “I’m sending directions to crown corporations, to the heads of government, to do a few things. One is to look at your contracts. Can you cancel contracts with American companies and replace them with Canadian companies?”

Minutes after our inquiry, that Yeti bid was cancelled.

We were told, “Provincial Health Service Authority Supply Chain has decided to pause the bid.” Adding that upon further review, “we recognize that using Canadian re-sellers of American goods, might fall outside the B.C. government’s expectations.”

Now the owner of a B.C.-based water bottle company says he would like to bid on the contract.