Government Operations committee  Thank you. I think, as Mrs. Fraser said, that there are some problems with stand-alone systems that don't communicate well with each other. In one example we were specifically looking for in the audit, we were trying to understand what the original budgets were for the fit-up co

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. When we looked at risk management, as Mr. Marshall alluded to, the number of staff who are processing these transactions has been reduced over the last period of time. These are people who are critical to capturing lease information about risks about leases

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For each administration, each relocation has an administration fee that goes with it and it's approximately $1,700.

Public Accounts committee  With each relocation they will meet with the member of the Canadian Forces or the RCMP who is being relocated, facilitate, and make arrangements for them for a house-hunting trip in their new location. They will pay the third-party service such as a real estate commission or lega

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The roles and responsibilities were set out in the RFP documents and in the contracts, and responsibilities are set out in Public Works' supply manual for their role for the fairness, integrity, and equity of the process throughout. I think there's clearly

Public Accounts committee  We had difficulty identifying who had developed the business volumes. I think, from our point of view, we saw them stated in the RFP. When we checked to see if they were valid, we came up with the 183. To get a clear person who had signed off on the specs, we had not seen that.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As was indicated, the person with the lowest price got the maximum number of points. In the situation described, had Envoy bid zero, their points would have remained the same; however, that would have had the effect of reducing the points awarded to Royal

Public Accounts committee  I think to arrive at what may have happened you would need to take into consideration the other issues that the CITT ruled on as well. Then, as the Auditor General said last week, you'd get into a fair amount of speculation.

Public Accounts committee  In that letter was a letter we had sent to ask them for comments on the original draft, and we made some adjustments to the text in response to that, yes.

Public Accounts committee  No. We made some adjustments to the text and went through that.

Public Accounts committee  No.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I would like to comment on that. When we conducted the audit, we looked at the financial analysis that was on the file at the time. It indicated that $2.5 million related to staying in place at Place Victoria was in excess of what it would cost to

Public Accounts committee  We asked for additional documentation. We have quite a formal process for clearing the facts with departments and setting out that this is the basis on which we've drawn conclusions. We ask the departments if they have additional information. We did not receive any further fi

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, we have certainly looked at the competitive tendering process and felt that it complied with the rules and regulations of the government and was done appropriately. Our concern was that once the competitive tendering was completed and direct negotiations were ente

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I haven't seen the binder that the department provided to the committee today. We looked through the files, both in the region and at headquarters, quite carefully and drew our conclusions based on the documentation that we saw in the files at that time. We would be