Transparent, expedient answers from the federal government about the contract and the decision making behind it have been hard to come by, say opposition
The Canada Emergency Business Account program extended $49-billion in emergency loans to businesses in the early months of the pandemic. Ottawa gave responsibility of the program to Export Development Canada, a Crown corporation. But as The Globe and Mailin February, EDC actually outsourced much of the work to Accenture, an international consulting firm.
. Some Conservative senators have continued to seek information from the government about the contracts, such as whether cabinet ministers were involved in the outsourcing decision and why the agreement was never proactively disclosed.EDC said it made the decision to outsource because of the complexity of the task and informed the government at the time. “EDC would not have been able to deliver CEBA without vendor assistance,” the response says.
EDC said it is “aware of” government guidelines requiring contract disclosure. But “as a crown corporation, EDC does not fall under federal procurement processes. EDC does have a separate disclosure process for award notices for applicable procurement contracts. This process was implemented in December 2021, subsequent to the Accenture award for CEBA.”
“I’ve lost count of the number of questions we’ve asked on Accenture contracts,” he said. “We’re obviously being given the runaround treatment.”
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