10. The director of financial resources is authorized, in the exercise of the director’s powers, duties and functions, to sign(1) supply contracts the amount of which does not exceed $20,000, save where the good concerned is acquired by catalogue from the Centre d’acquisitions gouvernementales or, as the case may be, Infrastructures technologiques Québec in which case the amount of such contracts must not exceed $25,000; and
(2) services contracts the amount of which does not exceed $25,000, except(a) services contracts where the service provider is a legal person;
(b) insurance contracts;
(c) auxiliary services contracts for the transportation and handling of goods; and
(d) services contracts relating to the hiring of a labour relations negotiator or arbitrator, of an expert witness before the court or of a physician or a dentist in matters of medical assessment.
The maximum limit of the amount of a contract provided for in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph is set at $10,000 in the following cases:(1) where the service provider is a natural person;
(2) where the object concerned is the supply of personnel.