Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for joining us today.
I want to continue on Ms. Yip's line of questioning for the Auditor General, because she didn't quite finish. She was discussing the problem with the department not taking the advice of PSPC to have an open competition.
You stated that the reason for that is that the department is ultimately responsible for the contracts with them, but do you have anything to add on how the best oversight could be taking place? You didn't address it in your report. How can we fix this problem so that it doesn't happen again? If procurement is saying, “You really should be doing an open competition”, and the department says, “No, we're not going to”, do you have any ideas as to how you could get around that blockage?