My name is Pat Casey. I've had a successful career for over 30 years working in the high tech and consulting industry. I have significant experience in business analysis, systems analysis, risk analysis, project planning and development specifications. I worked as a consultant with Revenue Canada, HRDC, Industry Canada, Public Works and Government Services Canada, and in private industry for Canada Corps., IBM, Nisha, and others.
For over three years, I worked diligently to produce thousands of pages of requests and required documents for the RCMP. I worked hard and I produced what was requested under the RCMP's directions.
I'm only going to respond to two issues that Staff Sergeant Frizzell read in his May 29 testimony.
First is the question of my involvement in Morneau Sobeco's being retained to administer the pension and insurance plans. Pension administration was put out by public tender under a request for proposal published on MERX. Morneau Sobeco was successful in that bid. I understand that Morneau Sobeco required one year to organize the start of pension administration. I was not involved in any way with the development of the request for proposal or its evaluation in regard to pension administration.
On a separate matter, although somewhat related, it is my understanding that the RCMP was dealing with Great-West Life on or around 1995 in providing some of the administrative functions for insurance. Great-West Life was then requested by the RCMP to examine taking over full responsibility for the administration of insurance. I was not there at that time.
One year into preparing to take over the insurance administration, Great-West Life advised the RCMP at a meeting with my superiors and me, in December 2001, that because they had recently taken over London Life Insurance and Prudential Life, they had decided they no longer had the resources to complete the insurance package of the RCMP within the timeframe demanded. Great-West Life explained that the resources they had would be required for the amalgamation of the three different insurance companies. They advised the RCMP that they would need approximately five years to implement the insurance administration required by the RCMP.
We were directed by my supervisors to do two things, amongst many. One was to cancel upcoming meetings in order to coordinate analysis of a business case, to examine the costs and benefits of the system as it was at that time, to analyze the proposed system of Great-West Life with a five-year delayed timeline, and to analyze the costs and benefits on a proposal planned by Morneau Sobeco with a delayed timeline of one year. Other companies were considered but rejected, because they could not meet the stringent requirement of the security of data demanded by the RCMP.
This evaluation was undertaken and completed by Liz Valentine, Garry Roy, and me, from information gathered from numerous sources.
I invite the committee to read the whole document rather than the two or three pages that I believe you were referred to by Staff Sergeant Frizzell. If you read this complete document, I believe you will have a better understanding of the magnitude and complexity of the dramatic changes that were taking place.
The study compared the costs and benefits of the various solutions described above from information submitted to the RCMP. The RCMP felt there was an advantage to utilizing Morneau Sobeco's plan because they had in place much of the information that would be utilized by insurance administration, due to their preparation for taking over pension administration.
Second, I was requested to prepare an option analysis for contracting insurance administration in light of the recent decision of Great-West Life in regard to the timeline. This option analysis was done in a coincidental timeframe to the above referred report.
In the option analysis, I reported, from information received from the RCMP, four options, one of which was the recommended option to contract Morneau Sobeco following an ACAN tendering process. I considered three other options: tendering by request for proposal, amending the pension administration contract with Morneau Sobeco, and contracting directly with an administrator through the RCMP insurance committee.
The RCMP was working under a major deadline in regard to its insurance administration as it was directly linked to the pension administration project, which was being moved to Morneau Sobeco as of April 1, 2003.
I once again ask you to read this document, which I'm sure would have been provided to you by Staff Sergeant Frizzell, but may be overlooked in the volume of materials. I at no time explored the option of Morneau Sobeco being a subcontractor of Great-West Life, nor did I ever recommend it.
I'm concerned about the contents of the business analysis, since we were given costs to be made of a confidential nature. May I ask you, Mr. Chairman, to order me to produce this analysis of a business case, to protect me?