OSIC has mainly two functions. One of them is to administer the ineligibility and suspension policy. As the deputy mentioned in his opening remarks, that policy gives us much more authority to act, and the main point in that regard is that we can now act even if there are no charges nor convictions against a company.
Prior to June 2024, we could only act if a company was criminally charged or convicted of a specific offence listed under the policy. Now, we have much more room to accept various sets of behaviour and to establish whether we want to put mitigation measures in place, including suspension, debarment and/or entering into an administrative agreement with the supplier.
We also, as I previously mentioned, maybe at other committees, have a much broader ability to detect, through our data analytics tool, cases of wrongdoing and/or overbilling.