Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
At PSPC, as a common service provider we are responsible for managing the procurement processes on behalf of our client departments. They are responsible for establishing the requirements of the individual procurement. They tend to do so for a variety of reasons, such as, in particular, when specialized skill sets are being sought to support a particular project or initiative, when surge capacity is required, when we need independent external advice or when we are lacking the expertise within an individual department.
Again, we are doing this on behalf of other government departments across the Government of Canada, so our role as a common service provider is then to manage those particular procurements.