Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm with Public Services.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I would just add that there's a lot of understanding that maintaining a positive visitor experience, for anybody visiting the Hill, is going to be very important during the renovation. To that end, we've actually had some very detailed discussions with our constructio

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Contracts worth approximately $11.5 million have been issued to subcontractors via our construction manager to do the planned work for the east pleasure grounds area, so we will have to work with our construction manager to renegotiate those contracts, and if they obviously can i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not likely in default or breach, but there are definitely increasing costs associated with that work.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. With regard to how are going to roll out this presentation, I'm going to take you through what I call the programmatic aspects of the presentation. Then I'm going to hand the floor to Mr. Malcic to take you throu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Earlier, in terms of the presentation, we talked about making some key programming decisions. In delivering this program, the intent is to make decisions in layered approaches, going from the highest level down to the more detailed, so that they can be made in the appropriate tim

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They do. PSPC is both the project implementer—the RC or financial authority for the project and the monies that we get for Treasury Board and the project authorities associated with it—and the contracting authority, through our department. We tendered Centrus' contract, and they

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely, we can submit that. In fact, we provided that information to the administration of the House of Commons, and it's on buyandsell.gc.ca publicly. It was publicly tendered and is publicly available. We will absolutely get that information to you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. We'd be happy to do that. Maybe I could premise that with just a bit of context for you, because it might help put you at ease a little bit. We're cognizant that we're working in the time frame of an election. We are trying to do engagements and get some feedback to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was only referring to an intention of the House administration to do an engagement with parliamentarians. It has been clear to PSPC that the engagement process will be executed through the House of Commons administration, so I defer to Mr. Patrice's comments on that matter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Perhaps I can provide a little bit more clarity. In terms of digging the hole, you're correct, that it is important when you go out to tender that you give that contractor whom you're tendering the work to a sense of how big that hole is going to be. I think that in the context

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —how big that hole is going to be is of critical importance. Then to the other comments that were made, what goes into it will become equally important, but that decision can be made at a later date when there's a little bit more information known and some more consultation comp

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To answer the question more specifically, to manage that risk because of where we are, there are options in front of us. We can start digging the hole by making some assumptions about the minimum size of that hole. And just going back to when we met about the elm tree, one of t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The answer to that question is yes, recognizing that it makes the contracting aspect a little more complex, but it's manageable. This is a very large and complex program, and that's what we're here for, to manage those types of risks.