Public Accounts committee  Can I finish my answer?

Public Accounts committee  Those discussions have not started yet. In the past, for previous submissions, we definitely used the life cycle.

Public Accounts committee  Treasury Board has a number of policies and directives and guidelines. They cover a wide range of activities and initiatives.

Public Accounts committee  A guideline is designed to give guidance.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the purposes of presenting a procurement project to Treasury Board, we use a 20-year cycle to predict costs, especially for maintenance contracts. As I pointed out, it is difficult to calculate maintenance costs for more than 20 years. So the life cycl

Public Accounts committee  Full life cycle costs are used at different stages of planning.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I was asked what Treasury Board uses in making decisions. For acquisition projects, in making decisions, we use the duration. For planning purposes, if a department has to…

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we are neither at the acquisition stage nor the project stage. So we have not yet received a submission for this acquisition.

Public Accounts committee  The F-35s are not yet at the acquisition stage.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Treasury Board guidelines are applied in different circumstances. When you are providing information for approval for a project, the life cycle refers to the life cycle cost of the materiel or the asset to be acquired. In the context of an aircraft or a

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, just to be clear, as I indicated in my remarks, the project for the F-35 has not come to the Treasury Board for consideration for its acquisition. So we are not in an acquisition stage at this particular juncture, and therefore we have not been analyzing or considering

Public Accounts committee  There are two specific functions that are attributed in the action plan. The first is that we will commission, as I indicated, an independent review of DND's acquisition and sustainment project assumptions and potential costs. Then, prior to the proposal coming to the Treasury Bo

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, the Department of National Defence is subject to the policies, as any other department or agency.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, when we have received submissions from the Department of National Defence concerning the timeframe for the costing of a life cycle, 20 years has been deemed to be an appropriate timeframe. It is set by the Department of National Defence. Going beyond 20 years is consi

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good morning. I am Michelle d'Auray, the Secretary of the Treasury Board. The Treasury Board and its secretariat set policies to guide departments in a wide range of management and resourcing activities, including the acquisition of assets. T