In February 2006?
Evidence of meeting #62 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was contract.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #62 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was contract.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Liberal
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Liberal Etobicoke Centre, ON
Were you involved with any other contract at this time?
Liberal
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Liberal Etobicoke Centre, ON
Were you involved with any other contracts with the RCMP, or was your company, Casey Computing? Were you involved with any contracts with the RCMP through the fall of last year into January of this year?
Liberal
As an Individual
It's not February 2006; I think that's where the confusion is coming in. I started on a contract with RCMP and I was the individual who was on contract from September 2005 until just this past January 2007.
Liberal
As an Individual
It was a contract that had three years in it. There was a year, and an option year, and another option year. The total value, although we didn't use the total value, was $500,000.
Liberal
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Liberal Etobicoke Centre, ON
It was an evaluation of pension administration outsourcing projects?
As an Individual
It was senior project manager for re-engineering of business process modelling.
Liberal
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Liberal Etobicoke Centre, ON
Okay, thank you.
Perhaps I'll pass on to Ms. Sgro and then I'll continue.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
Mr. Crupi, you indicated in your opening statement that your training was in payroll systems. How is it that you ended up being involved in signing off on procurement in a variety of these contracts?
As an Individual
I never signed off procurement contracts. I was the person responsible for the.... Persons wrote statements of work. I read the statements of work. They seemed like valid pieces of work to be done. I would sign off that, yes, that was a good piece of work to be done.
The procurement pieces were signed off by procurement in the RCMP and CAC. All I was reading was the actual work to be performed, which was payroll or pension-type work. That's all I would certify--that, yes, that was valid work.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
In the whole issue of doing the evaluation and your involvement with several of them, did you have a previous relationship with the Caseys?
As an Individual
I evaluated nothing from CAC. CAC did all the evaluations. The only time I did an evaluation was on the original standing offer, when there were about seven or eight of us who evaluated bidders who were put on a list of qualified bidders.
Liberal
Judy Sgro Liberal York West, ON
But you had a relationship with several of those contractors prior to their actually bidding on contracts.
As an Individual
I had a relationship with probably 50 or 60 contractors over 25 years. So if Mercer's had applied or Watson Wyatt had applied or KPMG had applied or IBM had applied, I could answer yes to that question--relationships meaning work relationships—yes, ma'am.
