Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you again for the question. I think the answer really lies a bit in your question. The critical thing is to complete these parallel activities in terms of what the expectations are of parliamentarians for this building to deliver and what the condition of the building is.

Government Operations committee  Yes. The construction on the West Block will be completed over the next couple of months, so before Parliament rises, all of the construction will be completed. Of course, becoming operationally ready is the key thing. We're working hand in hand with the House of Commons, in the

Government Operations committee  I would say that 100 Wellington is a bit of a special piece and I think we're going to have to work to develop special approaches. Yes, we'll have set-asides, but really we're looking at a broader array of tools, in that case, and then taking the principles that we will be appl

Government Operations committee  I would say the costing is not yet precise. This is from lessons learned from all of the projects that we've done here. Once we have the Centre Block emptied, the key thing is to start pulling it apart, by opening up the walls, the ceilings, the floors and really getting in ther

Government Operations committee  Just to put that in a frame, this was a particular type of contract. This only exists there. Project management supports—

Government Operations committee  In the project management support service contracts.

Government Operations committee  They represent about 4% of our overall contracts.

Government Operations committee  It's quite small, and not there going forward. We have 10 of those contracts in place, and that was in existence in two of those 10 contracts. On a go-forward basis, we will not be using it.

Government Operations committee  I would say we are at the early stages of establishing a robust benchmarking, and I agree it is important. I can give you, certainly, a flavour today. If you look at this past fiscal year 2017-18 for the work that we undertake, you see that expenditure is a little above $400 mill

Government Operations committee  That's 0.9% from a Government of Canada perspective and 2.1% for the work that we undertake here within the parliamentary precinct.

Government Operations committee  The target of 5% was just established over the past year and we're trying to get to flow through to subcontracting and we're now setting up a regime to try and accomplish those targets.

Government Operations committee  The 5% is really what we're trying to encourage for that to occur in all of the major projects. We are working with our acquisitions partners, within the policy framework, to develop the types of approaches that will incentivize the major contract holders to work with.... Really

Government Operations committee  Sometimes the requirements for...if you're talking about, for example, things like ballistic standards, those will change over time depending on reviews and studies made, for example, by the Parliamentary Protective Service as well as other security agencies. We have seen a numbe

Government Operations committee  There are a number of main contracts. For this building, it was EllisDon, for example.

Government Operations committee  For the West Block, it is PCL construction.