Let's take National Defence as an example. They have a very ambitious procurement program which is coming up at the moment, and because they haven't had any major procurements for many years, they don't have enough staff to deal with this. This has been said by DND; it's been said by PSPC. They need to rejuvenate that expertise, and that's a tricky task. Twenty or 30 years ago, many of the people who were in government procurement were from the industry. They were recruited into industry at various stages in their career. They understood how industry worked. That seems to have become increasingly difficult. What we see now is a lot of very junior people who don't understand how the industry works, trying to make decisions without having the background. We see the consequences of that in some of the rather poor procurement documentation that comes out on the street.
On February 6th, 2018. See this statement in context.