Yes, Alex, I'm on.
I can speak to the Department of National Defence. In 2021, we had 36 issues brought to our attention, and it says that in the annual report. I have a list of them in front of me and I'll be happy to go through a few examples, in no particular order.
In one of them, which was the first one that came to us that year, there were three contracts with DND to provide hotel rooms. The supplier was told to reserve 100 rooms and the department notified him that they would only be requiring 10 rooms. The supplier told us that he'd already put down a deposit on all 100 rooms. We looked into it. We spoke with the department and we liaised with the contract officer, and after some further digging, it was revealed that the supplier had never sent the initial invoices to the department. He consulted with his lawyer and changed his course of action, so he dropped it at his end.
In another example, a supplier submitted a quote to the department for a solicitation under ProServices, which is a supply arrangement. It's a contracting vehicle where you have pre-qualified suppliers. He hadn't heard back from the contracting officer, so he contacted our office. We contacted the contracting officer on the supplier's behalf, and the contracting officer gave a debriefing to the chief executive officer of the supplier's company. The issue there was that he hadn't received a response from the department.
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