We do not know which process Public Works and Government Services Canada used to award the contract to SNC-Lavalin. What we do know, is that as of 1999, when Public Works launched a call for tenders, the company that obtained a contract from Public Works was, as I said earlier, Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls. These three companies merged to offer their services and obtain the Public Works and Government Services Canada contract to oversee building maintenance. Then, Public Works issued another call for tenders in 2005, and at that time, it was SNC-Lavalin ProFac that obtained the management contract for building maintenance as of 2005.
This is a federal government tendering process, in this case Public Works and Government Services Canada, that I am not familiar with. I do not know what principles it was based on nor what process Public Works used to offer the contract to SNC-Lavalin. We do not know all the rules. We do not know SNC-Lavalin's mandate in full. What we do know is that, as of 2010, SNC-Lavalin ProFac's contract expired. Now, a company called SNC-Lavalin Operations and Maintenance is responsible for overseeing the upkeep of federal government buildings until 2013. Unfortunately, however, we have no information on the process used by SNC-Lavalin to obtain the contract from Public Works.