Public Accounts committee  I'll let Mélinda answer that.

Public Accounts committee  No, I can assure you. The people Mélinda Nycholat is referring to are the project directors within our client partner groups. We are the procurement authority, so they don't duplicate it with their own procurement people.

Public Accounts committee  We have an MOU in place with all of our client partners. Shared Services Canada is responsible for creating the data centre because it's their decision as to how to meet their mandate. They give us their requirements. We take those requirements, develop the procurement approach f

Public Accounts committee  The fees charged? Well, it's our annual revenue, so when you see $90 million in annual revenue, that's the fees that we've charged for the year. Our revenue is our fees.

Public Accounts committee  We measure that as a KPI. Our overall cost to service delivery is 10%, roughly. It varies, so 10.4%, 9.8%.... We're always driving it, but we break it down. For example, construction service delivery is 4.3% for last year. Procurement is 0.9%, meaning that one cent of every dolla

Public Accounts committee  I can take that one. I will mention, only because I just received the letter this week, that DCC has just been awarded by the responsible minister recognition for the best diversity in all small crown corporations in the country. What you are reading are our professional categor

Public Accounts committee  We put a very high priority, I can assure you, on diversity and inclusion. We exceed all of the targets and expectations in all of the categories. Women, minorities—you know them; I don't have to list them all. We don't rest on that. We are taking actions all the time in our recr

Public Accounts committee  We'd be very happy to. We're measured against the public sector as a whole, and also against the construction sector we operate in. I can assure you that against the overall construction sector in Canada we are so far beyond in all the diversity measurements. Against the public s

Public Accounts committee  Is this an actual question or a hypothetical? We don't award defence projects that have to do with equipment. We award the infrastructure projects that would be associated with them. For example, if it's an interim fighter jet program that the government launches, then we would s

Public Accounts committee  We basically respond to the service requirement with the necessary professionalism and expertise. Depending whether it's a construction service, a facilities management or property service, or the procurement service, we charge fees to contract. It's not based on a percentage of

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I appreciate the comments and thank you. I came in, in 2009, so for the past almost a decade I've been responding to the recommendations in the previous audit. We take the recommendations of the Auditor General very seriously, and it has helped us in the management

Public Accounts committee  I'll give the initial response. My VP, procurement, would perform those verifications. That was a calculated decision we made at the time in light of a very large volume of contracts that we were dealing with under the FIIP. We approached those verifications on almost a normal

Public Accounts committee  That was a management decision that was made in respect to that. The system does require that we verify every year and we will. That was a very unusual situation, that volume of business, and you're right that we continue to grow our capacity. We're a non-appropriated entity, s

Government Operations committee  The short answer is no. There is cross-communication, because whenever National Defence comes up with a budget to procure a new form of equipment—a plane, ship, tank, vehicle, or whatever—they also look at the infrastructure requirements to support it. We give input on that plann

Government Operations committee  National shipbuilding program.