We did not get an explanation as to why they weren't published—just that they weren't. It's not unique to CBSA. We've seen this in other departments and in some of the past reviews, which the procurement ombudsman was talking about, where there were issues with information that was available through proactive disclosure.
Actually, in this one in particular, the first time we tried to find these contracts we found almost nothing, and that's reflected in the report where we say the contract numbers themselves were wrong. We went back to the files and cross-referenced them with a database that we could download from. If you're an average Canadian and you're trying to get information off this system about contracts that were awarded, you'd be really hard-pressed to find any useful information, or very little anyway, from these contracts.