Thank you, Ms. Zarrillo.
Now we'll go on to the next round, and I will lead this one off as well.
At the public accounts committee on December 14, which I did attend, I asked officials for the metrics and scoring criteria used to determine contracts. In that discussion, an official at the meeting stated that “the commercial confidence of which suppliers won and didn't win may be more commercially confidential.” I was asking what the metrics and scoring criteria were, and that seems very subjective.
This is for you, Minister Beech.
You referred to the competitive process. One of your officials at that same meeting confirmed that the amount was $40,000 in order to trigger a competitive process. Your department provided a document that I requested when I was questioning them. Going through it, I saw that there were numerous anomalies listed over $40,000 and called “Non-Competitive”, “Sole Source” or “Competitive” or “Selective Tendering”.
Minister, can you explain these anomalies?