Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much. It's a very good question and I totally agree with you. That's why we can't rely completely on artificial intelligence to draw conclusions. We have to have people who are going to review the data and be able to interpret it, people who know the industry. Th

Public Accounts committee  We deal directly with the Department of National Defence—

Public Accounts committee  We do the procurement, so within the client department of the Department of National Defence, we work directly with the people who oversee the infrastructure and environment. Therefore, it would be the ADM for infrastructure and environment.

Public Accounts committee  Right, but I should qualify that I am not a statistician.

Public Accounts committee  I'm an engineer by profession. To keep up my licence, I have to adhere to certain requirements in accordance with a code of ethics. As far as the procurement community is concerned, I would say that we aren't there yet. It's a fairly young field. Major changes are, however, happe

Public Accounts committee  Do I feel that it would be a good idea for the procurement community to have a certification or licensing body? Yes, I think it would be a good idea.

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

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

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.

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  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