Do you get the sense that the procurement officer engages at a very early stage when the department is writing their SOW, for instance? Going back to the DND examples we heard about, one of my favourites was always the one about the snowshoes. At the time, PSPC was saying, “Well, they're just snowshoes, and you can buy those anywhere.” Then one of the army guys brought them out into the field, and the procurement officer realized, “Oops, I guess they're not just snowshoes, so we might want to...”.
On February 13th, 2018. See this statement in context.