Shaking the ArriveCan tree has made a lot of other things fall out – and the world of government contracting looks a lot like a place where the system is made for gaming
We haven’t got to the bottom of the ArriveCan debacle, but it sure has drawn out a host of other problems inside government.
That’s the office of the Auditor-General of Canada, the folks who are tasked with delving through government spending records to uncover abuses. And if there is double-dipping there, it has to make you wonder just how many people in run-of-the-mill government departments are also doubling up as contractors.
The ArriveCan debacle sparked another small company, Botler, to go public with complaints that they had arranged to do some work with the Canada Border Services Agency, but were surprised when they were told their work would go through a contract with Dalian and Coradix – firms they had never heard of.
GCStrategies, let’s recall, doesn’t do the actual IT work. They get contracts from the government and then subcontract the work, and add a 15- to 30-per-cent commission. They invoice the work, but don’t manage the project or the budget. And on ArriveCan that apparently added up to about $2,600 an hour.
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