Government Operations committee  I agree.

Government Operations committee  I won't claim to be the benchmarking expert, but I'll try to cut through a lot of the consultant-speak and describe it. A company like McKinsey has clients all over the world. It runs surveys in these companies. It can ask a variety of questions. The ones we're speaking about here are mostly around information technology, such as the maturity of an organization's information technology processes and procedures, as well as its culture.

Government Operations committee  I can confirm that Dominic Barton's name did not appear. Andrew Pickersgill...I'd have to go back and review your documentation. I don't recall seeing that name, just off the top of my head, but I can come back to you with that information.

Government Operations committee  PSPC has a group that handles these kinds of procurements that fall under the national master standing offer category. I believe it's referred to as the ZM group. Within the call-ups themselves, you would have noticed in the report of the 19 total call-ups or contracts that were issued under the national master standing offer that National Defence had the largest number.

Government Operations committee  The justification cited in the report is the only one we saw. We didn't see a subsequent one. That might have been previously adjusted, but what we saw in the file is what's reflected in the report. It provided inadequate justification, in our view.