Procedure and House Affairs committee  For all the Microsoft products, sir, we have them on standing offers currently. We have them on contract, so we didn't need to purchase them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The members of my team, sir, who were engaged in the assessment of the different platforms made the recommendation to me to go ahead with this, too. I made the decision to move forward, recognizing the schedule and recognizing that I had the authority to purchase that tool for th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I wanted to correct that. It was actually for three months, the initial purchase, so it was $3,000 a month, which comes out to close to $10,000. I wanted to clarify that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the question. We have been working with Zoom over the last six weeks.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to have a discussion on terms, but we actually have a licensing agreement with them to use their products right now. We don't have a master agreement, as they would say in the IT field, with that company yet.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Actually, I am personally responsible for the purchasing of the licences that we have right now. If we were to have a master agreement put in place, both the CFO and I would be the signing authorities, as we usually are for contracts.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Currently it is less than $10,000, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The current contract that we have in place right now is on a monthly basis, sir. But we've established a contract to consume up to $10,000 right now—not a contract but a licensing agreement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have not incurred any additional costs from the Zoom perspective. The costs have been related to modifying our infrastructure to integrate with any of the tools that we would have looked at, sir. I'm just going to correct the $10,000 contract—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've looked at the existing portfolio of platforms that we have at the House of Commons, such as Skype for Business. We've looked at Microsoft Teams. We've also looked at Cisco Webex, sir. These are the platforms we assessed after we were requested to consider doing virtual meet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will walk you through the process we took to select Zoom for this purpose. As I just said, our first step was to evaluate our existing tools to make sure they did or did not meet the multiple requirements we have for committees. We quickly found out that the platforms we have

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, just to build on Eric's comments, we've been working with different products, after consultations around the world, as far as looking at who is doing what and what solutions are being undertaken goes. Our current focus over the last few weeks has been leveraging Zoom

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're in the initial phases of the discussion with the library. I don't want to pass this along to Mr. Morin, but once the concept is aligned—and the library is already working with Carleton University and other universities, looking at virtual tours, physical tours, and at the a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The biggest challenge is planning for the proper infrastructure allowing us to have the proper connectivity when the time comes, because as you know, trying to plan 10 years ahead of time when we know that in our technology lifespan we live on a three-year basis means that we jus