Halifax, Vancouver are the big winners in a three-decade, $33-billion, 15,000-job procurement strategy.
The federal bureaucracy was so pleased with the results of its shipbuilding evaluation process that it is considering using it as a template for the future, says one naval expert.
Ken Hansen, a former naval defence fellow and current resident research fellow at Dalhousie University, was speaking about Canada’s largest shipbuilding procurement in history—the Harper government’s three-decade, $33-billion, 15,000-job procurement strategy—which saw a decision for large vessels handed down Oct. 19.(...more)
