Public Accounts committee  I, Greg McEvoy, do swear that the evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for inviting me here today. My name is Greg McEvoy. I'm an associate partner with KPMG in the forensic group. I am a chartered accountant, and have worked as a forensic accountant for approximately 16 years. I am designa

Public Accounts committee  I think CAC had a bit of a unique situation, in that they used their skills registration system to do these limited tenders. You were able to search this system under key words and get a certain number of bidders to send the RFP to. What we were trying to say with the Nortec si

Public Accounts committee  I can't speak to the logic as to why they put in a “no bidder” in each instance. There may have been a business reason at the time. But I'd ask why you would continue to send, with regard to this one client, requests to this company that continually provided no bid letters? Why n

Public Accounts committee  No, not on that contract.

Public Accounts committee  He had been working on a previous contract.

Public Accounts committee  No, he had not.

Public Accounts committee  My understanding of the history was that there were contracts that were initially done through RCMP procurement. They were not happy with the process as it was flowing. As the supply arrangements ran out, they did some bridging contracts. Then they were no longer willing to provi

Public Accounts committee  That's the way it transpired, yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  In this process, Mr. Smith would have received an RFP from Consulting and Audit Canada. He would have proposed Mr. Onischuk, written a proposal, and then provided the administrative function of submitting invoices and paying Mr. Onischuk. So he allowed Mr. Onischuk to go under Ab

Public Accounts committee  Other than the administering of the contract and the handling of the invoices and payments, that was the process then employed.

Public Accounts committee  I believe it was, as Mr. Smith said, between 5% and 10% of the contract value.

Public Accounts committee  With this one contract itself?

Public Accounts committee  I believe it would have been somewhere in the range of $5,000 to $8,000.