The series is a sub-registry, separately maintained to organize the records of the Government Operations Sector (GOS) of the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS). GOS is the organizational component of the expenditure management system whose records document all the central agencies through which the internal organization of government is governed (in distinction to the Social and Cultural Sector, the Economic Sector, and the International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector). The records document the accountability mechanisms and program associated with the expenditure management system and estimates process. The principal activity documented in GOS is the extensive evaluation of individual program activities of agencies and departments of Government through the expenditure management business line of which the annual estimates cycles are the central component. Program evaluation includes the analysis of departmental plans, programs and organizational proposals and recommendations to Treasury Board on acceptance or modifications of proposals in accordance with the financial and other priorities of the Government. In these ways, GOS in conjunction with related Sectors, coordinates the process whereby the government obtains funds from Parliament. GOS also advises the President of the Treasury Board in his role as a member of Cabinet on the resource implications of new government policy and project initiatives. GOS performs all these functions for the specific portfolio of institutions and agencies assigned to its scope of activity. The Government Operations division is also the current Office of Primary interest and Policy centre for TBS programs related to planning investment in and managing procurement projects, real property and materiel assets; the development of governance tools to identify major risks to sound management of public institutions; the governance of the full range of the nearly fifty parent crown corporations (circa 2008) and the development and implementation of the Policy on Alternative Service Delivery. In these latter three areas of responsibility, GOS plays a role in the governance of all crown corporations and most government departments and agencies.
