When the procurement ombudsman appeared before this committee, he walked us through the review of the Department of National Defence procurement system. He stated that there were 10 instances where he “did not have sufficient evaluation information to determine whether...the contract had been rightfully awarded.” He found that there was a chronic, systemic issue of missing paper trails for procurement contracts.
Can you speak about whether this issue is unique to the Department of National Defence? More importantly, can you explain why these transparency mechanisms were not followed?