Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jeff Lynt and with me is Jean Thivierge.
After seven months of delays, companies and/or industry associations were able to make corporate presentations to a PWGSC panel in February. PWGSC called this an industry consultation process. The consultations should have been about shared service procurement models and bundling of contracts. Instead they were about how to better award a mega-contract to a large company. We were obviously thrilled.
We submitted our concerns to PWGSC's SME office. We were told by its director--a very nice and articulate lady, I'll add--that she had no power and only an advisory role. While we appreciate her openness, she can't force changes, and as she told us, in the end she is a PWGSC employee.
Despite the committee's motion adopted last June, we were told in a meeting with several senior PWGSC bureaucrats that in view of the election and the prorogation, the department did not consider it necessary to come back to the committee with a plan.