I was a senior adviser in the director general's office of IT services at CBSA. I had seconded over “at level”. I had no procurement access, and that I have proof of. I had no access to procurement in any way, shape or form. CBSA had its own procurement team, and in fact was recognized for putting in place a series of COVID-19 contracts in, I believe, 2021.
The process was that you got requirements. We had a backlog. We would take those requirements and we would package them up in the way that they told us. IT would give me those requirements. I would put them into a format to submit them to CBSA procurement through email. Then they would generate a purchase requisition—