There are two things here. You have a lead organization that is a business owner, which is responsible and ultimately the one that describes the business needs of the project, but you usually have a lead procurement department, whether it's Public Service and Procurement Canada or Shared Services, that leads the procurement. Together they collaborate on ensuring that a significant IT project is put forward.
There should be checks and balances and monitoring there, done by the procurement department, as well as the lead department.
I think this is one of the areas, when we talk about the fairness monitor, that could be used. A fairness monitor is an independent group that comes in and looks at how decisions were made, or how the procurement was rolling itself out. There are ways that entities can self-check in an independent fashion.
Again, governance would be controlled.