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Government Operations committee That's a partner that—
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee That's a fully functioning office. We sometimes partner with a company called CorGTA.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee That is probably a question that's more appropriate for GC Strategies. However, I can tell you that GC Strategies was working with Botler for over a year in marketing to Public Safety, to departments in the public safety domain. That's the relationship between those two companies.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee Approximately 40.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee We're on Somerset. We have two floors that accommodate about 70 employees.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee No, our mailing address is in Ottawa.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee From time to time, clients will ask us to consider working with other companies to deliver against a project. It's something that occurs in our industry. Clients become aware of these arrangements.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee I'm not entirely familiar with GC Strategies.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee I understand. In this case, the optics were brought forward because of these CVs. Like I mentioned earlier, we're extremely disappointed that this has happened, and we are making changes to our quality management system. We are going to review more closely our arrangements with third parties and the consultants who are provided to us.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee I'm not entirely sure. Could you be...? Is it with respect to an RFP or a particular contract?
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee It is not a normal practice. Unfortunately, the administrative errors on those CVs were a mistake. As for billing rates and contracting rates in the federal government, it's a highly competitive business. There are over 300 companies, and most of the RFPs that we respond to are a combination of financial and technical scores.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee Mr. Chair, for the member, I can't speak to what could have been delivered for $250,000. I can only comment on what our contributions were in the task authorizations we received from CBSA.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee I can—
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood
Government Operations committee Yes, certainly. I can give you my opinions on that. Again, we worked on only parts of ArriveCAN. We delivered the work we were asked to by clients on our contracts. The ArriveCAN app is not an app that people use. It's not Candy Crush, and they weren't ordering pizza with this.
October 31st, 2023Committee meeting
Colin Wood