Internal government documents show that the value of a contract to build a new software tool for managing IT services across the federal government has grown by nearly 70 per cent, to $55-million – an increase Shared Services Canada has not publicly revealed.
The documents also show that while the original contract required all work to be conducted on-site for security purposes, the department later allowed several people to work on the project from home in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic – provided they took precautions such as keeping their computer screens away from windows so that no one could see what they were doing.
In Aug. 2019, Shared Services Canada (SSC) awarded the contract, initially valued at $32.4-million, to the Canadian arm of BMC Software Inc., a multinational IT firm based in Houston.
Documents released in response to access to information requests and later confirmed by SSC show the value of that contract increased to $52.4-million in February, 2020. Another document shows the contract was amended again on Dec. 31, 2021, increasing the total value to $55-million.
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