Government Operations committee  No. For Shared Services Canada to operate, of course, we procure for ourselves to be able to deliver the services. We also have the procurement function for IT procurement. Client departments will come to us and we do most of their IT procurement for them. The expenditure related

Government Operations committee  I doubt we would have this in our records. We had a role in creating the conditions to implement the application. Sam, do we have this? No. Unfortunately, no.

Government Operations committee  No, because the project was led by CBSA, the border agency. We were there to support them to launch the application. Probably the project cost will be contained within CBSA expenditures.

Government Operations committee  This is an excellent question. In fact, this is one of the challenges. Digital became the norm. Everything we do is digital, so now there is a premium in trying to find people who have the qualifications and expertise. We have been lucky, with SSC being a large employer, that w

Government Operations committee  This means that in terms of demand, we need to staff and equip ourselves to respond. Sometimes when projects come in, we have to rely on temporary services, but the objective when we have permanent demand is always to privilege increasing our staff. This is what we are doing righ

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. This question is critical. Cybersecurity is a team sport and it's an ongoing effort. We are never done when it comes to cybersecurity. In the Government of Canada, three entities work really closely to ensure the protection of the Government of Canada netw

Government Operations committee  I will ask Ms. Hazen to give you the exact, current figures for the ProGen project.

Government Operations committee  If I can add, this is about the staff internally to do the work, but it's also about the contracts we have in place with the qualified vendors to do their part of the work, which is to test their solutions.

Government Operations committee  Our objective is to recommend a process of experimentation in the first half of 2023, a year and a few months from now. We will then know what we can do and which system we can adopt. The work that PSPC is doing to stabilize the system and clear the backlog is essential for the t

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate the question, Mr. Chair. It gives me the opportunity to clarify this incident, which was covered by the media. I think everybody was affected by looking at this news. One thing I need to say is that we are committed to transparent and fair procu

Government Operations committee  Last year, when we appeared in front of OGGO, we discussed the fact that we had published, at that time, what we call the network modernization way forward strategy. In this document, which was the subject of consultation and engagement with industry, there was a list of upcoming

Government Operations committee  Okay.

Government Operations committee  In 2020, when we started the ProGen initiative, the objective was to test existing commercial solutions, as already used by many large companies, public organizations and governments around the world. We wanted to see whether they could be a good fit for an organization like ours

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. In fact, we started back in June of last year to engage with all our client departments to see what their plans and needs are. Right now, we have all learned how to work virtually and we are highly dependent on, in this case, Zoom, but in most of our

Government Operations committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.