Government Operations committee  Again, I will turn that to my colleague Manon, with respect to overall savings of the transformation plan. I will say that SSC was created through appropriations. We actually took people and we took the resources and the contracts and we used them to form the basis of our resource base.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. With respect to the National Research Council and the incident that occurred there, I will try to explain just very briefly. I've talked already about the capability around our security operations centre, but maybe we can reach back a couple of years to when we had a cyber-incident that happened at Treasury Board and at the Department of Finance.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. I'll respond to the security piece first and then turn it over to my colleague for the specific savings associated with the telephony modernization projects. As we move forward with respect to security we have established a security operation centre.

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. As we involve these new sourcing contracts or as we build our new infrastructure, we are ensuring that we are working closely with the Communications Security Establishment around standards, with the RCMP around physical security standards, and of course, we are building security into our designs.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. I'm assuming that we're talking about the email contract with Bell?

Government Operations committee  With respect to the email contract and all of our contracts, we have implemented a supply chain integrity piece and all of our procurements are subject to a dual process that allows us to look at security from a procurement perspective. In this particular case, we've actually looked at over 2,100 different procurements and Bell was no exception in the contract associated with the email transformation initiative.

Government Operations committee  Yes, I'll give you a quick update on the status of the email transformation initiative, and then I'll turn it over to my colleague to give you more precise information around the costs. With respect to the email transformation, we already said that it's a Bell CGI contract. It is a project that we are currently using with wave zero in our own organization.

Government Operations committee  Good morning. My name is Kevin Radford. I'm the senior assistant deputy minister of operations, and I'm accompanied by Manon FiIlion, director general of finance and deputy chief financial officer at Shared Services Canada. We are pleased to be here today to discuss the funding that our department is seeking, as provided under supplementary estimates (C), tabled recently in Parliament.