Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for having us. We're pleased to be here to answer any questions this committee may have.
By way of background for this report, the origin of this study was a Treasury Board Secretariat request to PWGSC to study the future of data centre services delivery within PWGSC, with an eye to extending the result of the study to the whole of government.
In January 2010 PwC was engaged by PWGSC and the Treasury Board to study the future of data centre service delivery. The scope of data centre services to be studied included facilities, servers, storage, and mainframes, but did not include networks or applications. The original scope of the study focused on PwC and included development of data centre requirements, future state delivery options, and options analysis, including case studies and recommendations for options and road map.
The scope of the study changed four months into the engagement and included all of government.
The study was undertaken in a very consultative manner and had inputs and participation from across departmental committees, from directors general of these departments, and from the CIOs of these departments. The study itself also had robust oversight. The cross-departmental committee of CIOs, which met monthly, provided project governance, and we also had two external expert advisers who reviewed all of our deliverables and provided reports directly to the crown.
That's the end of my opening remarks.