Early 2003 the Purchasing Commission, which was government’s central procurement organization, was dissolved with the services and policy and compliance components split into two different organizations.

The policy and compliance responsibilities for procurement were moved into the Procurement Governance Office which resides in the Office of the Comptroller, Ministry of Finance. The services arm was incorporated into the Common Business Services (CBS) Division within government's B.C. Shared Services (Shared Services BC).

As SAIP is now part of government's Shared Services organization, SAIP is required to recover its costs of operations from its clients.