Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. If I could, I will make a comment about your question about using the model for other procurements, and then I'll ask my colleagues to speak to the specific question at the end, regarding the various component parts. The attributes, engage

Government Operations committee  Thank you for your question. That's right. Ancillary contracts are not necessarily meant to control costs, but to help understand how the different projects are developed, and that in turn helps better understand costs. I will ask Mr. Vermette and Mr. Finn to comment a little f

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, as I mentioned, the use of independent third parties is one of the key success factors or attributes of the success of the shipbuilding strategy. In the selection process itself, we used a number of third parties. They were listed in the video. I wo

Government Operations committee  I just want to confirm that you're referring to small vessel construction. Okay. I'll ask Mr. Leslie to give you the specific details, and I think Admiral Finn and Mr. Vermette will also speak to that, because those small vessels are being built for those two departments. They h

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. I may actually have to ask you to rephrase the question, because the fairness monitor does not play a direct role in assessing costing information. The role of the fairness monitor is about assurance of the fairness of the procurement proc

Government Operations committee  He's an auditor of the procurement process.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. One of the unique parts of the NSPS is that it brought together multiple projects from multiple different departments into a single organization to look at a unique and different way of procuring all of the government's requirements for

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for the question. I think I'm going to ask both Mr. Vermette and Rear-Admiral Finn to answer the question, because the answer to your question will probably be different project by project. There is no straightforward, single answer to how it wil

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I get to where we are in the strategy now, the reason we produced that video was that the successful selection process caused us to do some reflection. Why was that particular selection process so successful? What did we do differently? We're happy

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will do exactly that. We certainly are happy to be here, and welcome the opportunity to discuss with you the national shipbuilding procurement strategy, NSPS. I'm joined today by Rear-Admiral Pat Finn, Department of National Defence; Michel Vermette, dep

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question. I will at some point turn to my colleague Mr. Ross, because he and I have worked together on this operation for some time and we share both elements of the decision-making process, if you will. If you look at a government considering an ac

Public Accounts committee  The joint strike fighter project started with the signing of the first MOU in 1997.

Public Accounts committee  A previous government.

Public Accounts committee  As Mr. Guimont has just outlined, the government policy is for the competitive sourcing of all solicitations, but there are exceptions as noted. The role of Public Works is to work with the client department in making sure that the justification and rationale for an exception to

Public Accounts committee  I don't know precisely how many words were in the letter—