Government Operations committee  The bonuses are part of the compensation package of public servants under our compensation arrangements. Yes, I'll take that back.

Government Operations committee  I will endeavour to take it back. I'm not sure from a privacy perspective if I can make—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I'll have to take that under advisement to see if we have them.

Government Operations committee  Thanks for the question. My understanding is that with respect to the GC Strategies contract, CBSA approached the department and said they had a requirement to move quickly to build a technology solution to support their administration of the borders and to protect the health of Canadians from COVID-19.

Government Operations committee  This was April 2020. It was the eye of the storm of the pandemic and they needed to move urgently. They had identified this company and had a sole-source justification, which was in line with the emergency contracting authorities at the time.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I'm sorry. I'm drawing a blank, but I believe on an annual basis, probably more than 80% are competitively awarded in terms of our contracts. We'd have to get back to you with the number.

Government Operations committee  Again, Mr. Chair, each project, each IT arrangement, is done within the authorities of the department. Departments will determine what's the best way to actually deliver that and what resources they can have. I will just say that some projects require very specific skill sets that a single department would not typically have, nor would it make sense for them to engage and employ those resources for a significant period of time.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, I cannot comment on that. I have no knowledge about it.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the government does do projects by itself with its own staff. In other cases, they have time-limited projects for which it does not make business sense for them to directly engage resources within their departmental responsibilities to undertake the projects. We make these vehicles available on an optional basis to serve departments when they've decided on their own terms that it makes sense.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, as I mentioned before, based on what we're seeing here today, we are looking very seriously at all these instruments. We're looking at what improvements we need to make to the instruments and what improvements we need to make in terms of training, delegations and whatnot to make sure that they are administered effectively in the future.

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, as was mentioned earlier by some of our team members, when the contract is initially set up, there are rate guides within there, and in administering task authorizations subsequent to those contracts, they have to respect those limits.

Government Operations committee  We have not undertaken that analysis.

Government Operations committee  We have set fixed limits for the resources. We see what the invoicing—

Government Operations committee  I do not have the information below what has been invoiced on the fixed rates to determine who got paid what. Those are internal business relationships between prime contractors and their subcontractors.

Government Operations committee  We in PSPC have a departmental oversight branch, and within its unit there is an investigative group that would look into it. They would typically coordinate with the client department and, based on the situation, decide who would be the lead and how they would collaborate.