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Public Accounts committee Thank you very much. It's a very good question and I totally agree with you. That's why we can't rely completely on artificial intelligence to draw conclusions. We have to have people who are going to review the data and be able to interpret it, people who know the industry. The people with whom I staff our procurement team, I select primarily from the construction industry.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee We deal directly with the Department of National Defence—
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee We do the procurement, so within the client department of the Department of National Defence, we work directly with the people who oversee the infrastructure and environment. Therefore, it would be the ADM for infrastructure and environment.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee Right, but I should qualify that I am not a statistician.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee I'm an engineer by profession. To keep up my licence, I have to adhere to certain requirements in accordance with a code of ethics. As far as the procurement community is concerned, I would say that we aren't there yet. It's a fairly young field. Major changes are, however, happening.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee Do I feel that it would be a good idea for the procurement community to have a certification or licensing body? Yes, I think it would be a good idea.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee The biggest challenge when it comes to the adoption of an electronic document management system is the change in culture that is needed. That's something we've had to deal with over the past few years. We have to work really hard to motivate employees to store information properly.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Public Accounts committee All right. Since then, we've done a lot of research, especially in terms of the data analysis you mentioned, and we found that it wasn't a very common practice in Canada. We had to broaden our research to look at other countries. We've developed a three-step data analysis system.
November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee It is but only for infrastructure and the environment.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee No, we are not involved. Moreover, we of course often take care of infrastructure to support equipment.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee Not to my knowledge. But I could maybe ask Jim if he knows if we've ever been asked to participate in any kinds of discussions or committees reviewing whether we should participate in procurement practices related to other procurements like equipment.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee Are you asking me whether DCC has made payments to companies that bid on our contracts?
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee No, not at all.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee No. We have never been asked to handle equipment procurement.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat
Government Operations committee Certainly, the project company that we have contracted with on that contract is leaning forward very much. Even before we signed the contract, they were already getting ready to finalize their design. We have several submissions from them to review. The design is well under way and the plan is to start excavation of the foundation by the end of July.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Mélinda Nycholat