Project 10
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Project Name Operational Review of procurement practices for Professional Services |
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Client PWGSC Office of Audit and Evaluation (OAE) |
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Duration December 2008 to January 2009 [2 months] |
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Project Description |
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Examine and report the appropriateness of the internal controls of PWGSC’s Real Property Services on specific requirements and contractual management clauses and conditions for professional services. Review was conducted as an Internal Audit and results were documented according to the Treasury Board Internal Audit Policy and Internal Auditing Standards for the Government of Canada. Based on the relative risks of the audit findings, a series of recommendations were developed to assist OAE to prepare a supporting document for the participation of the Deputy Minister to a parliamentary committee review. |
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Scope and objective |
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The goal of this audit was to provide to assess the level of efficiency of the service provided by the contracting office. |
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Dollar Value |
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Information available withheld with client |
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Contribution of the proposed resource to the project |
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– Developed an audit plan criteria’s were developed in accordance with the standard recognized by the Institute of Internal Auditors. Based on a risk management framework, lead the development of the audit criteria to facilitate the delivery of the mandate. – In complement to some of the mitigation strategies, delivered a series of informal coaching session to management. – Using a risk management framework identified a series of audits criteria to be part of the audit tool that was used to ensure the application of the audit plan throughout the mandate which was aligned with the Corporate Risk Assessment Framework. – Responsible for the development and update of the strategic plan for the implementation of the conduct phase. Provided and documented a few facilitation sessions to key members of the Office of Audit and Evaluation to review observations/findings and agreed on audit plan adjustment. – Aligned the audit criteria with PWGSC’s National Project Management System. – Identify data management weakness and propose implementation of corrective action to improve the data integrity support by a rigourous data governance structure with clear role and responsibility. – Prepared and presented the result of this review to Senior Management. – This mandate is supporting business process transformation and it requires expertise in assessment of organizational role and responsibility. |
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Deliverables |
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Result will be available once the external audit committee has been debriefing and report has been approved for publication release on PWGSC’s web site. |
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References: Linda Anglin Chief Audit Executive (819) 956-2971
Leslie James Director (819) 956-2994 |
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Technological platform leverage during this mandate |
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