EDC asked Accenture to run a quasi-competitive process, where a few vendors were able to provide a bid to develop loan accounting software. One of those was a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture. In the end, the recommendation was made to Export Development Canada that the wholly owned subsidiary should receive the contract. Ultimately, what happened was that EDC signed a contract with Accenture in order to deliver this loan accounting software.
It is that kind of lack of managing a conflict of interest that I would have expected EDC to do better on. There are clear rules and guidance in the federal public service, and they should have removed either Accenture or the wholly owned subsidiary from the process.