We're not questioning the choice of the supplier or the type of helicopter that was chosen. We basically have two issues.
One is, as we note in paragraph 6.79, Public Works officials told us they used a market analysis done by Defence, and we found that it wasn't sufficient to justify this. We wanted to see better justification of why that particular supplier was selected.
The other issue we have is with the projects. It was known that there would have to be modifications to these helicopters, and the risk rating that was given was “low to medium”. We believe it should have been rated “high”. The decision-makers should have known that there would be risks on cost and on delay, because of the modifications that had to be made.
So it was really about the risk assessment, how it was documented, and how it was presented to decision-makers.