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.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe we can jump in from Public Services and Procurement Canada. Thank you for the question. As Ms. Kulba indicated, 2019 will really be a parallel activity of focusing on getting a full assessment of the condition of the building and on developing the functional program for t

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.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thanks again for the question. Perhaps I'll start off, and then maybe I can hand it over to the architects. No decisions have been made at this point on how to seismically retrofit the Centre Block. What I will say is that in all of the projects we've undertaken over the past d

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it would be too early to indicate that. Certainly, the Peace Tower is one of the tallest, slenderest elements that exist on Parliament Hill, so that is a challenge from a seismic reinforcement perspective. You're quite right that the Centre Block is a different building

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Centre Block project is essentially the apex project of the whole long-term vision and plan for the restoration and modernization of the parliamentary precinct. From its very beginning in 2001, the restoration and modernization of the Centre Block has been one of the prime ob

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think if you go back in the history, there were several attempted renovations of the Centre Block in the far past, but I wouldn't be able to go into the details of those. I think it is accurate that there were some planned restoration initiatives over a number of decades that d

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We continue to monitor the building on an ongoing basis. Health and safety is the number one priority, and it is the real reason we've been collectively putting all this effort into making sure that the building is emptied prior to 2019, when we have that assessment that there re

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, there was the type of assessment that you referenced made on the Centre Block. It's essentially a four-point scale. Centre Block was rated as a three on that assessment. It's within the department's assessment of its ability to manage projects of that size. That's a departm