Government Operations committee  I'm going to only, then, talk about—

Government Operations committee  I'm only going to talk about RFPs. We participated in it. Just as an example, there was a PPP RFP. Our organization does public-private partnerships. We have a new model. I've written a book about that model. We have an alliance with KPMG. We are a small company, but we are very

Government Operations committee  I will answer that. I want to make a comment on this whole outcome-based prescriptiveness. There is no one size that fits all. At times, the government needs to be prescriptive; at other times, it needs to be outcome-based. In every medium to complex procurement, you have thre

Government Operations committee  I haven't seen a lot of it in Australia or New Zealand, but there were a couple of situations in which the rules were relaxed in the U.K. to allow this kind of stuff. You know, it's not really about technology; it's about creating the conditions for small and medium enterprises

Government Operations committee  One of my recommendations is to create a network enterprise support office. That would be a good catalyst, if you like, to help the SMEs form these relationships. When there's a bid on the street, when there is a major DND procurement, when something is going on with the big guys

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. I'd like to give you a practical view of SMEs in action. I'd first like to talk a bit in terms of general feedback about the challenges that SMEs are facing when it comes to federal procurement, some of which have been mentione