Program directory · National Research Council Canada

Biologics Manufacturing Centre

Department

National Research Council Canada

Program code

BNQ26 (NRC)

Core responsibility

Science and Innovation

In Departmental Plans

2023-24 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) is an end-to-end Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) biomanufacturing facility located at the NRC Royalmount campus. The BMC is self-contained and is managed and operated by a not-for-profit (NFP) entity to fulfill its public good mandate. The NRC leases the facility to this organization and provides $17 million per year through a contribution agreement to offset facility operational costs. While the BMC outputs and outcomes are not directly under control of the NRC, its performance is monitored to ensure effective stewardship of Government funds.

The BMC was built by the NRC to provide Canada with a domestic vaccine production capacity, and the ability to produce, especially in times of need in the supply chain. In non-pandemic periods, the BMC provides domestic capacity to undertake public interest projects, such as the production of orphan drugs for rare diseases, to support improved health outcomes for Canadians and protect those at high risk. The BMC may also provide domestic biomanufacturing GMP production for universities and SMEs, to contribute to the sector’s growth, knowledge and capacity.

Given the NFP arrangement that is being put in place, the long-term role of the NRC will be to provide effective oversight of the contribution agreement between the BMC and the NRC and to see that the objectives of the BMC are being realized.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2023-24. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

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Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.