Thank you very much.
As you said, my name is Narindar Khabra. I'm the president of IBISKA Telecom Inc.
IBISKA is an Ottawa-based consulting company that was incorporated in 1995. We have over 26 years of experience in working with private industries, as well as with the Government of Canada, providing consulting services in the areas of IT—information technology—and information management.
Our focus is all in the areas of either business, program/project management or, on the technology side, enterprise or infrastructure services, which include cloud computing, data centres and networks. We also do quite a bit of work in cybersecurity and IT security, and we also do business in applications and IM architecture.
IBISKA is qualified under the Government of Canada's supply arrangement. Many of those are there right now, such as TBIPS, SBIPS, or different names. We have actually been working with the Government of Canada with multiple departments. We have a number of multi-million-dollar and multi-year contracts at this time, so we're providing services to many different departments at this time.
This leads me to talk about why I'm here right now. I was invited to speak here as part of ArriveCAN, so I want to talk a little bit about how we are doing business with the CBSA.
On March 25, 2021, the CBSA issued a request for proposals to all TBIPS tier 2 companies. There are close to—I'm estimating—80 to 100 companies that are qualified to do business with the federal government at that particular tier. The CBSA put out a request for proposal during that time for the IT security services, which means that they wanted to have a firm that could actually produce and work with them and look at all their applications, all their data centres, all their systems or networks so that they could be authenticated and authorized.
On May 10, 2021, we responded back to the department, and on June 30, we were awarded the contract by PWGSC. The total amount for that contract is just over $8 million, but that does not include all the taxes. Including tax, it's $9.278 million.
This is the work they call an omnibus contract, which means that the CBSA asks us to provide the qualified resources so that they can actually go there and utilize them on any different applications, any different systems or any different networks, which will include cloud computing or anything like that. Basically, we do not write the applications and we do not do project management. We do none of that business. The only thing we do with the CBSA is the cybersecurity authentication and authorization.
I think what I want to say right now is that the total contract is $8 million. This contract is what they call a task-based contract, which means that a company cannot actually do any business until a task is issued to the company. We have presently a number of different task authorizations from the CBSA. We provide consulting services to them, and they actually ask the individuals to work on these particular networks, systems or applications.
For the time being, I just want to say that looking at what we have right now, we see that we have actually invoiced so far on this contract, even though the contract is $8 million, just a little bit less than $1.4 million since we got the contract on June 30, 2021.
Out of that, my understanding is that we have invoiced just over $101,000 on ArriveCAN, which was until March 2022. Since that time, we have also invoiced approximately just over $80,000. There is also a part-time individual who was working on this contract and is actually providing services right now to other applications as well.
I'm assuming that right now, we might have actually invoiced approximately $200,000 as of the end of October.
