Sunday 16 November 2014

At least the Ottawa Citizen Gets It

A good opinion piece on the eternal dumpster fire that is Canadian Procurement.

Best quote: Supposedly chastened after years of controversy over procurement, the government unveiled a new, “streamlined” approach to the file last February. The Defence department in June published its first new Defence Acquisition Guide. http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/business-defence-acquisition-guide/index.page. One cannot read this summary without coming away thunderstruck by the magnitude of the rust-out. The report may as well be stamped, “Everything here broken – and to stay broken."