Government Operations committee  “Nicolet” would be right. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  We are also very proud to be rolling out an e-bidding system. We started rolling it out about two months ago, for the purpose of reducing paperwork and making the process more efficient for DCC. We have also moved to an electronic filing system, again, to reduce paper and be more

Government Operations committee  BIM is a new approach to designing, implementing, and maintaining facilities. It's data. As opposed to designing a building on drawings, it uses data. All the information on the building is stored in a data software, and then you can apply different technologies to do energy anal

Government Operations committee  They are implementing a brand-new IE business modernization system, and it does include the potential use of BIM for the operation of their facilities. Of course, we are supporting them on that. We and DND are both participating in the same industry committees together.

Government Operations committee  I don't remember the numbers exactly. It may be in the order of $1 million roughly.

Government Operations committee  I think so. It's probably safer not to say any numbers.

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 a

Government Operations committee  Are you asking me whether DCC has made payments to companies that bid on our contracts?

Government Operations committee  No, not at all.

Government Operations committee  No. We have never been asked to handle equipment procurement.

Government Operations committee  It is but only for infrastructure and the environment.

Government Operations committee  No, we are not involved. Moreover, we of course often take care of infrastructure to support equipment.

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.

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

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 properl