DND, procurement officials had no intention of conducting required competitive bidding process to find CF-18 replacement: Williams

'This is in fact what the AG said. And so in June, out pops this letter that claimed to provide sufficient justification for Rona Ambrose and her staff to jump on board,' says Alan Williams, a former DND bureaucrat and procurement expert.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose would have signed off on a 160-word letter from the National Defence Department that is at the centre of a finding by Auditor General Michael Ferguson that PWGSC failed to demonstrate due diligence as it agreed to short-circuit regular pro...

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