"The company has said neither of its two employees perform IT work themselves. Instead, they subcontract the work and keep a commission of between 15 and 30 per cent of the total contract value."

That's about half the economy here in #Australia, not surprised Canada has it too.

Government adds pointless box-ticking requirements to the RFP, so suppliers add pointless box-ticking services to the bill.

Government adds arbitrary scale requirements to RFP to reduce the number of bids and avoid doing work, so suppliers cartelize to comply.

And it works like a rachet to constantly inflate budgets - BS requirements are politically cost-free to add, but expensive and thankless to remove.

Most large companies here are no better, though, hence the need for monopolies and bailouts...

Hahaha Globe and Mail articles behind a paywall. If I wanted a lobotomy I’d just do it myself.