Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I was not in the department at the time, so I was not party to the conversations.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as Mr. Glowacki noted, we have what I'd say is a very hybrid model between the provision of services by private sector companies and from within Shared Services Canada. Our sourcing strategy is to look at this type of issue on a case-by-case basis to assess the busines

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, again, this is a combination of do you change the scope, do you change the funding, or do you change the time? All of those three elements will come into play, so I hesitate to speculate about which of those elements will change in the updated plan until we have an upd

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'd be happy to provide that background. The vast majority of our staff are technical experts in the CS category, which is the computer sciences category in the government. There's a wide variety of skill sets ranging from data centres to telephony to networks. They

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, our goals are outlined very clearly in the report on plans and priorities for 2016-17. We've established the baseline and the processes of establishing metrics by which you can measure us. In terms of the progress of the transformation plan, we're in the midst of updat

Public Accounts committee  That's a question we're examining in the context of updating the transformation plan, and the balance and trade-offs between the scope of the projects, the budget, and the time. It's an interplay across all of those three variables and I think that's pretty normal.

Public Accounts committee  We're in the midst of putting together our budget plan for the coming year. Our plan will include the specific estimates and I'd be happy to make those available when we have the specifics available.

Public Accounts committee  We do not have a precise date.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, we will have a revised date when the vendor provides a revised migration plan.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, there are strong incentives for the vendor to accomplish the migration as quickly as possible. The vendor gets paid according to the number of email boxes created and transferred.

Public Accounts committee  It's a combination of Bell Canada and CGI. Those are the core vendors.

Public Accounts committee  The contract was signed in 2013.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, there are service credits that accrue in the event of delays.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, this is a question we're looking at carefully in the context of the revised plan. I do not have a precise date for the completion of the data centre migration at this time. All of these measures or issues depend on a balance among the scope of the projects, the amount

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, all together, about 80 or so old data centres have been closed.