Thanks for that question.
Agile is certainly a transformation of the way we do procurement. Rather than have multi-year plans to do a major procurement, with a lot of holdups along the way while securing funds through Treasury Board, agile procurement is really working with the vendor community very collaboratively to ask them to provide solutions to a problem the government has, rather than going to them and saying, “Here's what we want to buy. Bid on that.”
Agile procurement is something, as the Auditor General has noted, where we've really moved a long way in that direction. It means we do pieces. We bite off a piece, we learn from it and then we tackle the next piece. We're not locked into a train of activity that was planned years before, which may be out of date by the time a large procurement is finally completed.
Agile procurement is certainly what we're doing with our replacement of the Phoenix pay system, working towards an HR-to-pay system that will serve public servants very well. Agile is a key fundamental of it.