Ontario Shared Services. General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario Shared Services. General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Shared Services Bureau. General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1998-

    History

    The General Administrative Services Delivery Branch was created in 1998 within the Shared Services Bureau, Management Board Secretariat (MBS). It then assumed responsibilies previously assigned to various administrative units within MBS and individual ministries and agencies.

    In 2004, the Customer Assistance Team and Knowledge Information Management, which shared responsibility for recorded information management, were transferred to the Archives of Ontario.

    In 2005, the General Administrative Services Delivery Branch was transferred with the Shared Services Bureau (now Ontario Shared Services Bureau) to the new Ministry of Government Services.

    As of 2006, the Branch reported to the Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategy and Enterprise Services, Ontario Shared Services.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The General Administrative Services Delivery Branch provides Ontario government ministries and agencies with operational support services including risk management and insurance services, information storage and retrieval services, surplus assets management, distribution and mail services, print and form management services, and French language terminology and translation services.

    The Branch also provide the Government and public with official documents-related services.

    The Branch was responsible for the provision of recorded information management services to ministries and agencies until 2004, when this function was transferred to the Archives of Ontario..

    Address

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Management Board of Cabinet

    Identifier of related entity

    AA44

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Management Board of Cabinet controls Ontario Shared Services. General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1998-2005

    Description of relationship

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Government Services (2005-2007) (2005-2007)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA128

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Ministry of Government Services (2005-2007) controls Ontario Shared Services. General Administrative Services Delivery Branch

    Dates of relationship

    2005-

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA2010

    Institution identifier

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Status

    Approved

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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      Script(s)

        Sources

        KWIK Indexes, 1999-2006

        Government Phone Books, 1999-2006

        Ministry of Government Services Web Site

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        Paquet