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Company that worked on ArriveCan app barred from government contracts for 7 years (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/canada
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Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from entering into contracts or real property agreements with the government for seven years.

Public Services and Procurement Canada has announced that GC Strategies Inc. has been deemed "ineligible" after an assessment of the supplier's conduct.

Last year, the department suspended the security status of GC Strategies, which the auditor general says was awarded more than $19 million for the project.

A report by Canada's Auditor General Karen Hogan found the government's record-keeping was poor and its reliance on outside contractors allowed the cost of the project to balloon to $60 million.

The first ArriveCan contract was initially valued at just $2.35 million.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I lead a number of projects many times as complex as this silly little app, and I don't think they all came to $2.35M in billings, let alone $60M. Everyone involved from the private and public side should be facing corruption and fraud charges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Really just absurd to have a contractor to assemble of team of contractors. To top it off incompetent management managing the contractor.

If only we had a electoral system where we could vote for intelligent competent people instead parties.

GC Strategies did not develop or manage the ArriveCan app, but it was tasked by the federal government to assemble a team to complete some parts of the project.