“The price of the poker game has gone up without a competition,” said one lobbyist. “It’s great to have a Canadian company running a 30-year effort but what will it cost the taxpayer? If they’d held a competition, we could have seen five or six contenders.”
Others pointed out that the sole sourcing appeared to run contrary to the government’s much-vaunted Defence Procurement Strategy.
It certainly seems to violate government contract regulations that say sole sourcing is permissible “if only one person is capable of performing the contract.”
By handing the contract to a Canadian company, it may have fulfilled one of the procurement strategy’s goals, but it may not have gotten the best price, critics claim.
“The government wants 15 ships but they don’t have enough money for seven ships – and they have even less now. Nobody tested the market,” said one industry source.
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Others pointed out that the sole sourcing appeared to run contrary to the government’s much-vaunted Defence Procurement Strategy.
It certainly seems to violate government contract regulations that say sole sourcing is permissible “if only one person is capable of performing the contract.”
By handing the contract to a Canadian company, it may have fulfilled one of the procurement strategy’s goals, but it may not have gotten the best price, critics claim.
“The government wants 15 ships but they don’t have enough money for seven ships – and they have even less now. Nobody tested the market,” said one industry source.
more
John Ivison: $26B shock — Canada’s largest ever defence procurement handed off in sole-source contract | National Post
