Health committee  The federal government ran its own procurement process for the testing, and Switch was the recipient of the contract. I'm happy to go back with my staff to see if there was any contact with the Ontario government, but I'm not aware of any. I'm happy to take that back and see if t

Health committee  No, sir.

Health committee  We've had deployments in Ontario of the units that are stand-alone. I think people may be familiar with Sunnybrook and that deployment. There have also been discussions about potential deployment with other provinces, but to date Ontario is the only province that has actually res

Health committee  Yes, they're absolutely still there, Mr. Chair, should there be a call. It's one of these assets that you hope you never have to deploy, frankly, but should there be a need, they're available. There's one of each model available for deployment should it be needed.

Health committee  Well, obviously for the equipment, for part of these units, some of it has expiry dates, but the actual “vehicle” itself, I'll call it, is available for some time should it be needed in the future. We're in discussions with our colleagues about eventual home for these things in t

Health committee  This was done at a time when you were seeing things like emergency rooms overrun, with lack of space being an issue. You saw the cruise ship in New York Harbor, and we did notice that other countries were taking steps to put in place plans for mobile hospital units or health unit

Health committee  In this case, PSPC actually used its own funding to acquire these, so in part of the estimates last year, PSPC was given additional money voted by Parliament where there was a need for procurement—because we are in direct contact with suppliers and are noticing shortages—to go ah

Health committee  Based on assessments, there are not a lot of companies in this business. We had two who have done these types of things before, often through efforts with the military in Afghanistan, as well as for the U .S. military, so we found two suppliers who were well experienced in these

Health committee  The contract had a couple of elements, Mr. Chair. Number one is the design, as I mentioned, and number two is to actually procure the equipment necessary to establish these things should they be needed, because, again, you have to have these on hand in advance of any request. As

Health committee  It's effectively a mix of goods and services. It's a total solution approach, where the supplier is indeed responsible for.... We jointly ran on the design, but the actual procurement of the equipment, the deployment, the maintenance and then the tear-down are the responsibility

Health committee  The total service package across different industries...? Yes. I mean, these are obviously a fairly unique asset that the government has deployed. Again, they do require an awful lot of advance planning, because if there is a need, you have to effectively be out in front of it ei

Health committee  We are confident that we found suppliers that were capable of delivering and helping with the design, and again, with two different models, which is important. When you look at Weatherhaven, they have a good partnership with ATCO trailers. SNC-Lavalin and its partner PAE had done

Government Operations committee  I'd have to get back to the member in writing with an actual list of the number in surplus, but we're happy to do that. I think there is an ongoing assessment because a lot of questions are being asked about the future of work and what kind of space the federal government will n

Government Operations committee  There are two kinds of avenues there. One is through Canada Lands, which would develop. The other is through the CMHC program that has been mentioned. The main job for PSPC in this area is to identify surplus properties and then to make sure all are consulted on what might be d

Government Operations committee  There's a lot in there, Mr. Chair. We will absolutely get a list of surplus properties. It hasn't been determined who they're going to yet, so maybe it would be helpful if we could give a list of surplus properties that have also been disposed of, looking backward just to get a