The questions cautious clerks ask first.

Yes. The MFIPPA privacy amendments apply to every institution covered by the Act, regardless of population or staff size, including the smallest townships and library, police services, and conservation authority boards. Being small changes how you meet the obligations, not whether they apply.

Less than meeting the deadline yourselves, which is the point. In staff time: a kickoff call, a written list of documents to pull, a few short interviews with the people who actually handle personal information, and one review pass on the draft. In money: a single fixed price agreed before the work starts. In systems: nothing to buy, install, or connect us to, and no new software for your staff to learn. If a document does not exist, that is a finding, not a delay.

No. Tectonix provides privacy and readiness consulting, not legal advice. Where a question is legal (litigation risk, an IPC order or appeal, a novel interpretation of the Act), the work flags it plainly and involves your institution's legal services, so the answer comes from the people already advising you.

Each engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price, quoted after a short scoping call once the work is understood. You see the scope and the price in writing before anything begins. Pricing is quoted per engagement rather than from a rate card, because scope varies considerably with the size and complexity of the institution.

Tectonix Technologies Inc. is a small Canadian corporation, and the Principal Consultant, who holds a CISSP, leads every engagement directly: the person on your scoping call is the person who writes the deliverable. Their background is PIA and privacy work across multiple public-sector organizations at the municipal and federal levels, so public-sector records, procurement, and reporting to a council or board are familiar ground.

That depends on your own procurement by-law, and Tectonix will not guess at your threshold. Engagements are fixed-scope and quoted in writing, which is the form most institutions need for a sole-source justification or an informal quote comparison. If your purchasing staff need the quote structured a particular way, or need supporting vendor documents, say so on the call and it will be prepared that way.

With the readiness assessment. It measures where you stand against January 1, 2027 and produces a prioritized plan, which also tells you which collections will need a PIA. Book a 30-minute scoping call to begin.

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