We do not have evidence to show who made this decision. However, we have found a job description, or a contract. At Public Works and Government Services Canada, the request for the contract to be issued came from a director in the department. In my opinion, when a public servant exercises their delegated authority by signing that kind of request, it comes with a responsibility. I would have expected, if the public servant was not comfortable signing the document or did not want to do it, they would have consulted their supervisor or explained their reasons in the files.
The files are very thin, however. The important decisions, the basic decisions, were not well documented in the contracting file.